Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The NSW Oaks at Menangle next weekend looks to be over before it has even begun. On the strength of her dominant display in winning her heat the Emma Stewart trained Very Pretty appears to have all of her rivals totally covered, including her fellow heat winner and reigning NSW 2YO of the year Lux […]
The original enforcer, the great L.R. Dittman extraordinaire Mick Dittman earned the nickname ‘The Enforer’ in the 1980’s for his ability to get somerthing extra out of his mounts to carry them to victory when their realistic chances of winning their races looked forlorn. “Dittman’s lifted it to the line!’ was Ian Craig’s regular exclamation, […]
The award for win of the night has to go to No Heart Throb, and being trained by Jack Trainor it gets the best named winner award too, for obvious reasons. This lightly raced Kiwi import made it 5 in a row by winning the Remembering Dianne Richard – Evan Pace, and what a victory […]
So just as it has always been under the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings, Melbourne high society’s man Gillon McLachlan ascends to the throne, the upstart who wanted to throw away the old school tie Andrew Jones gets exiled, and King Gil gets to hand pick his replacement. Perfec this is. King Gil […]
It’s a tough beat this one if you were on the inside in the 3rd race at Bathurst last night. To the naked eye as they crossed the line it looked for all money as if it had hung on. Then in the photo print it looks like it had dead-heated. The judges didn’t agree., […]
A horse trained by John McCarthy threw a positive swab to cobalt in October 2018. McCarthy was charged with presenting it to race while under the influence. Five years later he was found guilty and given a DQ of 12 month. John McCarthy appealed, and his sentence was reduced to 9 months. He appealed again […]
Ben Talbot is the Chairperson of the Wagga Greyhound Club. He is also the brother of Adrian Talbot, the person at the centre of the storm surrounding the discovery of the carcasses of 500 dead horses buried on or next to his property outside Wagga. Adrian Talbot is widely said to have been slaughtering brumbies […]
In January 2018 a greyhound named Better Cruise trained by Ben Talbot raced at Wagga. Better Cruise tried to fight or bite another dog during the race, an action which is known as marring. After being inspected by the on-course vet after the race, the dog was found to have no injury or physical problem […]
This is the head on Steward’s footage of the final stages of yesterday’s Frank Packer Plate at Randwick.. The outside horse won by 0.1 lengths, which is a nose in my book and a short-half head in Darren Flindell’s. Either way, it’s a bee’s dick. The outside horse came in a smidgen and they scraped […]
Tamworth trainer Dean Chapple has this week been disqualified for 2 years on a charge of presenting one of his horses to race (and win) with the painkiller Meloxicam in it’s system. Click to access 240419%20mr%20dean%20chapple%20inquiry%20conducted.pdf It’s an extraordinarily heavy sentence for a substance breach offence that usually attracts just fines. Look at some of […]
