Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Emma Stewart trained four odds-on favorites at Menangle last night. Extraordinarily not one of them was pre-races swabbed. Admittedly her Oaks winner Very Pretty ($1.09) and Queen Elizabeth II Mile runner-up Ladies in Red ($1.75) had been in the retention barn up to 2 hours before their races, but to imagine that stops a determined […]
Jackie’s Gift as a weanling, with her mother Chevrons Sweetheart. They were sold as a pair in December 2021 for $22 000. Grant Forrest is that rarest of thing, a NSW harness racing trainer who only prepares trotters. The man based in Mount Fairy doesn’t generally go near pacers. If it doesn’t square gait, Grant Forrest […]
Chelsea Prothero, the young former Victorian driver who moved to NSW to Prothero pleaded guilty to charges that: During an interview on 11 January 2024, as part of their application to upgrade her licence from a Stablehand to a Grade B Trainer, she knowingly or recklessly furnished false information to HRV Stewards by stating that […]
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 […]
