Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
For twelve teeth gnashing months Richard Callendar, purportedly Australia’s most controversial racing commentator, has bored us all witless with his weekly spruiks for The Everest. It should be a Group 1. It has to be a Group 1. It must be a Group 1. The pattern committee sucks. The pattern committee should be sacked. The […]
361 days of non-stop hype later, and three media blitz bomb days to go, and on Saturday here we are. Everest day. Ho hum. Strip away all the hype, concentrate on quality not the dough, and what do we have? A sprint race. Wow. A not very exciting sprint race either. The usual suspects have […]
The 5YO mare Benoni had been around 33 times before she finally broke her maiden at Coonamble on Sunday. Good on the mare and her connections, but there was something very, very weird about the win. Three weeks ago Benoni ran second in a maiden at Warren beaten a long neck, at a price of […]
Tom Sherry’s appeal against his 4-month suspension for breaching the Racing NSW rules and policies in regard to COVID-19 related matters will be heard early this week, perhaps as early as today. It is our view that Tom Sherry has been treated very harshly and unfairly in the carriage of this matter, and in sentencing. […]
Boncel Benjamin spent the first six years of his racing life in Victoria, first under the care of M. Stanley, and then after that as a member of trainer S. Duffy’s barn. He had 70 starts during that time – none at Group level – and never won at a distance of a mile or […]
Will there one day be a statue of the Terror next to the Tornado in Paleface Park, Temora? You just never know. The Temora Terror is out of the finals series of the Breeder’s Challenge. Brilliant two-year-old pacer Mister Rae – the unbeaten rapidly emerging cult hero from the home town of the great Paleface […]
We wrote earlier about the hot race 3 at Penrith. Now we are going to tell you about race 7, and why we suspect that it might have been the daily double. The Rex Horne and Leon Jurd owned and Jurd trained Highview Saddler was the medium of a huge plunge in the race, and […]
The Balmain Boxer rang me immediately after the field passed the line in race 3 at Penrith last night, and he was blowing up big time. “Did you see that!” he screamed down the line, and then before I could say yes he started shouting even louder. “That was the hottest race in the world! […]
I have been raving about Kevin Seymour AM’s 2-year-old colt Leap To Fame for about six months now, and talking up his chances against the big guns of the south. Well today the moment has come. In race 6 at Menangle today, the second colts and geldings heat of the Breeders Challenge, Leap To Fame […]
The NSW Stewards allowed four jockeys, including the rider of the winner Reegan Bayliss, to ride overweight. No explanation was given in the official report as to why. It is a disgrace that makes an absolute mockery of the whole idea of handicaps, and flies in the face of a century of custom and practice. […]
