Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The mail coming out of Menangle is that uber-successful young trainer and personality around western Sydney town Jack Trainor is sans telephone at the moment, and so are two of his stable staff, one of whom is believed to be the talented young horseman James McPherson. It seems that the Stewards for some reason or […]
Over the past couple of years Brian Portelli has emerged from relative obscurity to become one of NSW leading trainers, and now boasts a stable full of young stars headed by Smaltese and Tasty Delight, who although only two and three respectively have won almost $400 000 between them, with the promise of many more […]
How did jockey Blake Spriggs get away with this? Spriggs is on the horse in the yellow and red one off the fence up about third. It’s horse in the light paled salmon and black on her inside that you are looking at. Bang! Spriggs feels the check he has just caused the other horses […]
The Golden Eagle is, in my view, another Peter V’Landys mistake. Not the race. It is superb. The timing. This is too big and too good a race to be going head to head with Derby day. It’s like putting a Tyson fight at his best on v an Ali one when the Champ is […]
On Sunday morning in an article about the Bondi we told you that Keefy, the runner up in Peter V’Landys mad million dollar race for 3-year-olds, had run second the start before in a Class 3 at Caloundra to a horse named Way Beyond. I neglected to mention that I knew a bit about that […]
What an abject failure The Bondi is. PVL aced Melbourne with The Everest – that is obvious by the rapid decline in quality of the field in the Manikato, a race in urgent need of repair – but he has overstretched his hand completely with this million dollar balls up. The winner Hilal is a […]
A week ago we told you about the deeply crooked trot driver Peter Russo having thrown up yet another positive swab to TCO2. Old habits die hard, but Russo didn’t have any Stewards to bribe this time. A week after the story broke, he has been stood down. No stays for you Russo. Good on […]
Miss Serena is a four-year-old mare who started her racing life in Western Australia. She had sixteen starts there for just one win and two placings. That sole win was in a lowly late season 2-year-old affair at Northam in a time of 2.01.5. The horses Miss Serena beat in that race have gone on […]
Sometime after her gross flop at Bankstown on the 6th of September, Miss Serena was transferred to the stable of Andrew Ison, who is based in the tiny isolated locale of Warral, located to the south-west of Tamworth. Andrew Ison used to be just a battler, but in recent times had transformed into a miracle […]
You will remember the story we wrote earlier this week about the controversial protest decision in the NZ Cup lead up on the weekend where Self Assured was awarded the race after Natalie Rasmusssen allowed South Coast Arden to drift up the track to impede Mark Purdon’s line. Well take a look at this one […]
