Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
There is something about race 2 at Mudgee that set off my rort radar. This race just isn’t quite right. The winner was backed from $61 into $6.50. Every time it firmed the top weight whose price was hovering around the $3.50 mark did too. Then started to blow like a gale and drifted out […]
Know how many favourites on the eight race card at Menangle last night got pre-race swabbed? Two. There were 16 pre-race tests taken in total. Only six of the sixteen horses tested were under $10 in the betting market. Seven of the other ten were $23 or more in the betting. Three of them were […]
I have said it before, and I will say it again. Peter V’Landys is the greatest racing administrator in history. Not just in Australia, but in the world. Just look at yesterday’s Royal Randwick meeting if you don’t believe me. Sydney has been under water for weeks, and the Randwick track has been deluged with […]
We wrote the story at the top a fortnight ago. In it we told you that Mr Brightside carried 9kg more in the All Star Mile than he would in the Doncaster Handicap, and that his effort to finish fourth in the Mile was the biggest run in the world. What more did you need […]
The company sponsoring the Wagga Cup is called CLEANAWAY, not CLEANWAY. I guess the new Canadian CEO is confused. It’s probably got something to with being an anti-vaxxer. That or the club’s withdrawal of refreshments for trainers and drivers on race days. Oh well, at least their won’t be much rubbish for the sponsors to […]
I reckon this protest decision is dead wrong. The winner Brillar is in the Godolphin blue. Willie Pike’s mount Givara that protested is in the red, black and white colours. Verbek in white is the meat in the sandwich. Take a look at the side-on first. The margin is skinny isn’t it? In another stride […]
You may remember the case of Norm Loy, the country gallops trainer who was last year disqualified for three months after the following comment on his Facebook page about the then NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian: “You are the biggest fucking moron Gladys Berefucklien. How can you lockdown an entire state you stupid fucking mole. All […]
The CEO of Harness Racing NSW Mr John Dumesny (pictured above) has been in touch early this morning to advise that the control body certainly does not condone or support the types of sexualised post that we highlighted overnight as appearing on the Wagga Harness Club’s Facebook page. Mr Dumesny says that he suspects that […]
