Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You will remember the story we wrote earlier this week about the controversial protest decision in the NZ Cup lead up on the weekend where Self Assured was awarded the race after Natalie Rasmusssen allowed South Coast Arden to drift up the track to impede Mark Purdon’s line. Well take a look at this one […]
I am buggered if I know what an s2yo is, but one thing I do know is that Bar Room Banta isn’t one. I also know that the 2YO Breeders Challenge fields have been out for most of the week, which is handy because they are being run tonight at Menangle. This is a balls […]
Watch the replay below. It is a heat of the rich 3YO NSW Breeders Challenge run at Bathurst last night. Winning it guarantees a pacer a place in the semi-finals. Five quick things before you look. Mitch Turnbull is driving the leader. His sister Amanda is on his back. The favourite is in the death. […]
Tom Sherry’s 4 month suspension has been reduced to 2 months by the NSW Racing Appeals Panel. That seems a much more fair outcome all round. Sherry’s done the crime and has to do his time, but as we highlighted the other day 4 months seemed too stiff given the circumstances. Two months out doesn’t […]
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 […]
