Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What a weekend it was for Barry Purdon. First he returns to race driving for the first time in 6 years under the Friday night lights at Alexandra Park and marks the occasion by steering Higher Power home a winner. It was like Big Ba had never been away from the bike at all. Then […]
Hall of Fame member and harness racing legend Barry Purdon returns to the cart for his first drive in six years this afternoon at Alexandra Park. Purdon, whose last race drive was way back in 2019, takes the reins on his highly talented but often temperamental 3-year-old square gaiter Higher Power in the fourth race […]
Could this be the year that Australian novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist and horse racing devotee Gerald Murnane finally wins the Nobel Prize in Literature? Murnane, whose love of the turf is illustrated by the title of his memoir Something for the pain: A memoir of the turf, has been a contender for the […]
February 18, 2016 / Whispering Gums When I heard Australian author Gerald Murnane had written a memoir, and even more when I heard its title, Something for the pain: A memoir of the turf, I knew I had to read it. I am not a horse racing tragic, by any stretch, but how could I resist such an intriguing sounding memoir […]
Leap To Fame is the best horse in the world. He would pick the leading American horses up and carry them, especially over a distance. Larry’s local opposition aren’t in the same league. They are not even in the same stratosphere. Last night Leap To Fame ran a mile rate of 1.53.7 in his heat […]
It was interesting to read that Darren Weir had engaged Jim Murdoch QC as his barrister in the jigger appeal. D. Weir is a very smart one. In our considered opinion based both on observation and first hand experience – Murdoch KC represented us in a case brought against us by APG, and he slayed […]
This photo of Phar Lap with Gerald Telford, the son of trainer Harry Telford sitting on his back, was shot in 1931 on a property at Bacchus Marsh. It was taken just prior to the great horse’s ill-fated trip to North America in November, 1931, and is held in the Museum Victoria Collections. What a […]
Archie Re your story this morning (Monday). Leap To Fame is not even the best Queenslander this century, let alone the best in the world. Ever heard of Blacks a Fake? 4 Inter D0minion wins and second twice. Won the Hunter Cup off 20m beating Smoken Up and Safari. Here’s your best Australian pacer of […]
This morning I was speaking to an experiences internal horseman and good judge of my acquaintance about the best horses he had ever seen or raced against in his many decades of involvement with the sport across three countries, and his immediate answer was Leap To Fame. “But you raced against the great champion Somewheresomebeach, […]
Albion Park 1660m – 1.48.6 2138m – 1.51.0 2647m – 1.52.8 2680m – 1.55.5 (stand) Cranbourne 2555m – 1.55.5 Newcastle 1609m – 1.49.0 Redcliffe 2280m – 1.53.4
