Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The retention barn at Menangle is a supposed drug-proof prison covered by cameras and guarded 24/7 that runners in big races are ordered to enter and remain in from midday on the Thursday until two hours prior to start time of the race. The whole intent is to prevent horses from being doped with Performance […]
Trotter Sheetweb Weaver has won just 4 races from 34 starts before joining the stable of trainer Bruce Birch, the last of them coming at Cobram in May 2023. He had gone winless from his past 2o runs, managing just three placings in among 17 unplaced finishes. Pre-Birch the fastest time he had ever run […]
The protest second against first in this race at Redcliffe on Sunday was dismissed. I’m buggered if I know how. The driver of the winner (in purple) clearly comes out underneath the second placegetter (in yellow) turning into the straight and causes them to lock wheels at the top of the stretch. The purple horse […]
Don’t you be a bad boy JohnnyDon’t you slip up, or play the fool – Men at Work He’s Chiming was the $1.95 favorite to win race 5 at Bathurst last night. Its driver John O’Shea obviously didn’t back it. He might have laid it though. O’Shea is sitting pretty third the fence as the […]
One thing that appears to have escaped notice is that the success of the NO campaigners in the Rosehill sale vote moves the once reviled Robbie Waterhouse and his wife step closer to the ultimate revenge on the racing establishment that decades ago exiled him from tracks around Australia – by their friends and supporters […]
By our correspondent The Digger In a rare victory for common sense and racing tradition, the Australian Turf Club (ATC) members have slammed the gate shut on the $5 billion Rosehill Gardens land grab. With 56.1% of the 7864 voting members saying No, the attempt to flog off a historic racecourse for yet another soulless […]
By Neil Breen Published in the Sydney Morning Herald 27/5/2025 The “no” vote prevailed and Rosehill has been saved – now stand by for the fireworks. The fallout will be immense. Peter McGauran, the former Howard government minister, can’t possibly survive as chairman of the Australian Turf Club. His handling of the proposed sale of the famous […]
$1.60 NO $2.30 YES $1000 TIE
“I’ll look after you”. That’s what jockey Rory Hutchings said to the Clerk of the Scales at Randwick yesterday, after the race day official pulled him up for attempting to weigh out without his safety vest so he could make the weight. “I’ll look after you”. There are only two ways that you could take […]
Take a look at this race above – race 4 at Bathurst last night – and ask yourself this question. What the hell was Jett Turnbull doing? The answer is easy. Trying to tank the odds-on favorite on his inside so as to get it beaten. He succeeded. It’s hard not to when you force […]
