Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Lucas Bucca is a 17-year-old kid who was having just his eleventh professional drive in the ten months since he got his license when he took the reins of his dad Anthony’s horse Okay Gringo in the 3rd at Menangle yesterday. So far young Bucca hadn’t driven a winner, so I’m told that he was […]
The coat of arms of the Duchy of Cornwall Earlier this year Shartin’s part-owner Richard Poillucci of North Eastern, Massachusetts paid $500 000 to buy a 3-year-old South Island Kiwi pacer named Duke of Cornwall. John Curtin negotiated the deal, no doubt at a huge premium for himself. We’ve told you before about Curtin and […]
Well I stand corrected by Gold Coast Greg, who has pointed out that I am wrong about the Egg. It’s the other way around. The dogs pinched it from the trots. From the Fairfield trots to be precise. Fairfield had been running the Golden Easter Egg for 25 years when the yappers appropriated the name. […]
The biggest race on the annual NSW greyhound calendar is the time honoured Golden Easter Egg, a rich and highly coveted Group 1 feature event that has been running since the year 1990. The Egg is quintessentially the dogs, and the name is uniquely theirs, or was anyway until Harness Racing NSW cursed themselves by […]
Harness Racing NSW has won no friends with it’s last minute cancellation of Friday afternoon’s Wagga trot meeting, a card that was set to feature the heats of the NSW Regional Championships. The meeting was cancelled less than an hour before stabling time, on the ostensible basis of inclement weather and the state of the […]
The only thing that punters were talking about all week was the Queen Elizabeth Stakes This 2000m Group 1 classic was shaping as the race of the decade so far, and would and should have been too, if it wasn’t for just one thing. No it wasn’t the Heavy 10 track. It was how James […]
AR 132(7)(a)(ii) Limits on the use of a whip by a rider (7) Subject to the other requirements in this rule: (i) the whip must not be used in consecutive strides; (ii) the whip must not be used on more than 5 occasions except where there have only been minor infractions and the totality of […]
Star Entertainment are in very poor form coming into the Oaks. It has all but admitted that it knowingly facilitated the operation of a billion dollar money money laundering scheme run out of it’s Sydney casino by a man linked to Triads and the international wholesale drug scene. It’s CEO has resigned in disgrace. He […]
I hate to say we told you so, but we told you so. Chris Waller has played the Sydney handicapper like a fiddle. By nominating Verry Ellegant for the Sydney Cup and then second accepting her when he never had any intention of running her in the race. Waller has been able to manipulate the […]
Chris Waller is the master of manipulating handicap weights. Winxy’s method is simple, and he has been doing it forever. He enters one of his top rated horses in a handicap race where it is certain to get the top weight, but in which he has no intention of running it, the purpose being to […]
