Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Majestic Cruiser ran 4th of 5 in a claimer at Ballarat on Boxing Day 2020. He had 22 starts after that, and won just one of them, in an NR80-94 at Melton After he ran a poor seventh in another NR80-94 race at Melton on the 26th of June last year against weak opposition, Majestic […]
Rickie Alchin – Sydney’s number 5 trainer – took four horses to Tamworth on Thursday night. All of them had metropolitan or provincial grade 1 race or trial form. They each started fave or near the top of the betting market. Every single one of the four went like busted arses, so bad that it […]
So if the NSW Government doesn’t cough up the $800 million that it promised for the upgrade of Accor Stadium (formerly Stadium Australia), and now wants to renege on because the COVID-19 bill for vaccines that didn’t work is so big, then St Peter of V’landys is going to turn the NRL Grand Final into […]
Divitiarum et pecuniae fructum non alium putabat quam profusionem, sordidos ac deparcos esse quibus impensarum ratio constaret, praelautos vereque magnificos qui abuterentur ac perderent The Roman Emperor Nero, telling we peasants that there is no other way of enjoying riches and money than by riotous extravagance, declaring that only stingy and niggardly fellows kept a […]
Everyone in the world has an opinion about Nash Rawiller’s ride on Kementari at Randwick on the weekend, and most of them are negative. Mine is different. I saw it as just good, hard, competitive riding of the type you would hope for and expect of your jockey in a feature race. Josh Parr told […]
Mickey Muscat doesn’t have the greatest disciplinary record in the world that’s for sure. In the past 16 years he’s been put out twice for positive swabs, and it wasn’t that long ago that they let him back in. It didn’t last. Mickey’s pacer Knight Mariner threw an over the limit TCO read in the […]
Can someone on the good ship Eureka today please have a word in the ear of the NSW Harness Racing Benevolent Fund Secretary Mr John Dumesny or the Treasurer Mr Peter Carney and remind them that the lodgement of their Annual Information Statement and Financial Statements to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission is more […]
Racing Victoria has appointed a bloke who runs the netball in NSW as it’s new CEO to replace Giles Thompson, after the latter lost the battle with Peter V’Landys and walked the plank. Netball hey? That’s interesting. Let’s hope Andrew Jones (pictured at top) does a better job that his predecessor did, for despite the […]
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 […]
