Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The top ten richest races in Australia list tells a story. Sydney hosts six of them. The Everest, Golden Eagle, King Charles III, Golden Slipper, Queen Elizabeth and Doncaster. (Note that 2 of them are named after foreign based monarch, 2 after gold, one after a mountain in Nepal, and the other after a racecourse […]
What a brilliant race the Blacks A Fake was last night at Albion Park. The race of the year. Hands down. It was an absolute ripper. The record books will tell future generations that Don Hugo won it. But really Luke McCarthy did. His drive was absolutely perfect, an 110 out of 10. McCarthy took […]
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and it saddens me immensely to say it, but Victorian harness racing is fucked. Absolutely and utterly rooted. All of Melton pretty much bar the track and buildings are gone, sold to pay off debt. Harness Racing gets nothing out of it except some savings on […]
Don’t let anyone ever tell you that thoroughbred racing isn’t in a good place. A direct comparison of the earnings of the top 6 trainers (by winners) in Australia proved the absolute nonsense of such claims that you hear every day from the knockers. In season 2014/15 Australia’s leading trainer was Darren Weir with 297.5 […]
There have been some interesting developments in recent weeks relating to harness slot races. Kevin Seymour, who missed out on buying a 3-year slot in the Protostar in a ballot, has purchased the slot previously owned by Anthony Vugec. Keen to secure a slot so the 2yo that bought by his grandson Ben Seymour in […]
Harness Racing Victoria’s announcement yesterday that it is immediately slashing prizemoney for the Breeders Crown Series has rocked harness racing participants, with the series being decimated by direct cut in stakes for the 2 and 3-year-old finals of $705 000 or 64.35%, down from $1.15 million to $410 00. These prizemoney reductions imperil the Group […]
Former Hong Kong premiership winning jockey Robbie Fradd retired from race riding at the end of last year after learning that he heart problems that would require triple bypass surgery. Only weeks later he underwent the urgently required operation, which took a massive 5 hours and saw him enter ICU post-op as part of his […]
Here are three different perspectives on the King of the Mountain at Toowoomba. The first two are from readers. The last is my own. Isn’t it wonderful that we live in a democracy? We truly are the lucky country. You are spot on, King Of The Mountain was a belated Christmas gift to the local […]
Tommy sure did kick didn’t he? How terrific. Or should that be horrific? I’ve met a lot of bent blokes in my lifetime, and quite a lot of crooks too, hundred if not thousands of them combined. It’s what you get when you grow up on racetracks of all three persuasions, and when you are […]
