Taking the Bait – Wade Birch Resigns From Racing NSW to Take Up the Top Job at the Dogs – God Help the Possums South of the Tweed

  I told you ten days ago that Steve Fletcher’s former commission agent turned NSW Deputy Chief Gallops Steward Wade ‘Lurch’ Birch was soon to be leaving that role to take up the job of top cop at the dogs. As always, our mail was delivered early and in a packet marked CORRECT. Yesterday the […]

Another Great Shirl at Bathurst and a Wonderful Night of Pacing – But Why Has the Race Named in the Memory of Mrs Turnbull Been Downgraded to a Group 3? – It is a Disrespectful Error That Must Be Corrected

What a great edition of the Shirley Turnbull Memorial it was last night at Bathurst, a great old fashioned race of the sort that grass roots harness racing lovers like me yearn for and adore, a sheer test of speed and stamina over the searching 2795 metres test that sorts out the men and women […]

A Greek Tragedy, and a Wade Birch Farce – The Innocence of Nash – Part 1 – How it Rolled, in Words

The ride in a sense lacks competition, lacks competitiveness – Wade Birch Snyder: There are some things I can just smell. It’s like a sixth sense Giles: Well, actually, that would be one of the five – Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Wade Birch tough stewarding mania train rolls on this Friday when […]

A Greek Tragedy, and a Wade Birch Farce – The Innocence of Nash – Part 3 – Oh, and By the Way, Has Anyone Got a Form Guide Mr Birch Can Borrow?

When you are assessing a racehorse’s performance or a jockey’s ride, it is always instructive to look at the form guide first. Let me tell you a little about Greek Hero’s form. It is an English galloper that has won three races in its life. All bar one of them was on soft ground, which […]

Wade Birch Bangs His Head on the Doorframe on the Way Out of the Inquiry Room After His B. Avdulla Folly Falls Flat on its Face

SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT Rosehill Gardens 28 November 2020 Race 8 – Schweppes Starlight Stakes (Listed) 1100m Passage Of Time Stewards today concluded an inquiry into B. Avdulla’s riding of the gelding in the straight, and in particular his vigour inside the final 200m. Today Stewards heard evidence from Racing NSW Chief Betting Analyst Mr L. Dalton […]

Wade’s Birch is a Big Talking Feather Duster – Piss, Wind, and Bulldfust – Brenton Avdulla Walks Away Free Just Like He Always Would

Well just as we predicted earlier in the week, acting NSW Chief Steward and former Steve Fletcher employee Wade Birch’s attempt at slotting Brenton Avdulla for a perfectly acceptable ride on an unwanted 40-1 shot has collapsed into the nothing that it always was. Birch went out talking tough. Had those surrounding circumstances not have […]

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