Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dear Author Your “All We Got Was None” article reads like racing people primarily care about winning or losing money, and not the horses involved, and I believe it gives animal activists ammunition to back their cause rather than help prove that as racing people we love horses and put them first. The name of […]
Due to a series of debacles on my journey to the 3-day Swan Hill Carnival – including a stolen suitcase with my laptop inside it (and most of my punting bank, but that’s another story), broken glasses leaving me virtually blind, a lost Epipen, and long, long hours on the punt with Keith from QLD […]
Peter Profit Your story on Toowoomba racing starting late. What about the other States? It is a joke, they are always running late. I was always of the understanding that the Stewards were their to ensure that races started on time. And that horses paraded in plenty of time to proceed to the starting gates, […]
I reckon I first started telling you about peptides about 6 or more years ago, back when I started writing about the extraordinary achievements of trainers like Jason Grimson, and how they could heal sore horses and turn their form around and transform claimers into Inter Dominion winners in a very short space of time. […]
Our political correspondent on the ground in the federal electorate of Farrar, Bookie Bob – real name Daniel T. Crimmins told you all a month ago that One Nation were past the post certainties to win the by-election to replace his political hero Sussan Ley as the local member. At the time the corporates and […]
Dear Archie This print of photo finish in the race at Eagle Farm that you wrote about really shows up how a bad mistake David Fowler’s call of the result was. As for Tony C who wrote into you, I suggest that he have two Bex powders, a and chill. By the way, do you […]
This morning we published a letter from a reader regarding apprentice jockeys in QLD, which specifically mentioned Jaden Lloyd. The letter was genuine ,as are all the letters that we publish – anything I write myself I do so under my own name – but as is our consistent practice we do not publish our […]
It looks like Payne Haas agrees with PVL about R360 being a competition out of a cornflakes box. Superman don’t eat cornflakes. Haas is staying at home. V’Landys breathes a sigh of relief. https://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/payne-haas-tells-nrl-associate-he-plans-to-stay-at-brisbane-broncos-amid-r360-fears/news-story/36c316f2c905e3829267fa3ccd0bed49
As most would be aware we were the victim of a hoax late Wednesday afternoon, one that we fell for hook line and sinker, and made an absolute idiot of ourselves both writing and pursuing. Based on the information that we had been provided – and which we had checked, based on what had been […]
