Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mafuta is Swahili for fat. Mafuta Vautin. Fatty Vautin. It’s a cracker, but there’s one thing Darrel didn’t know when he named it. Words have multiple meanings in the Swahili language. Mafuta also means anointed. The chosen one. Dreams. They can come true. Remember when Fatty’s boys won Origin? He was punting next to me […]
The boom 2-year-old filly Honey Pot missed the start 5 lengths in the 1st race at the Sunshine Coast yesterday afternoon. Despite this massive insurmountable handicap the Gollan trained filly somehow managed to run 5th beaten just half a length in a 1000m race in which the winner came home its final three furlongs (600m) […]
On the 8th of October this year the racehorse Jimmy Neutron, a classical nonnie that has had 32 starts for no wins, was barred from racing for three months after bleeding in a midweek race at Doomben two days before. That meant that the galloper would not be seen again at the racetrack until the […]
In the same race in which Deus Ex galloped – the $30 000 Group 3 Be Good Johnny Sprint – driver Chantal Turpin propelled her horse Will The Wizard off the gate and attacked the leader and favourite Turnitup mercilessly, forcing that horse’s driver Shane Graham to run a suicidal 26.6 second first quarter and […]
How does this make any logical sense at all? LL Cool J is drawn in gate 3 off the front row. Deus Ex is drawn 2 off the back row. The first time they score up LL Cool J gallops and interferes with the horse drawn behind it Colt Thirty One, and with Deus Ex […]
It must be a terrible feeling to have 9 out of the 10 starters in a NSW Breeders Challenge Final and lose it to a Queenslander. A sinking, sick sensation in your stomach indeed. Hello Sydney, remember me? Kevin Seymour AM. From Queensland. My name’s Kevin, and I’m here to help. Relieve you of your […]
There are only five riders declared for the Cloncurry meeting in regional Queensland tomorrow. The problem is that there are 7, 8 or 9 runners in each race. At present they are still starters, which would suggest that Racing QLD are being proactive and arranging a few jockeys to drive out to the middle of […]
This is an ugly picture isn’t it? Harness racing in Queensland has lost nearly $40 million over the past six years. The losses are year on year, with no profit or break square periods in between. Thoroughbred and Greyhound racing are paying for these losses. Those two codes are subsiding harness racing prizemoney to the […]
The Queensland harness Breeders, Owners, Trainers, (and) Reinspersons Association was once a lively and active representative body that advocated strongly on issues affecting the industry. Today it appears to have all but disappeared off the map. BOTRA has not released any news at all on its website for three years. No information is provided on […]
Everyone in the world except for Grant Dixon knows that unless he is coming from the back off an electric early pace, Colt Thirty One cannot run faster than 55 seconds for his last half mile. It is patently obvious, and clearly borne out by the Colt’s 90 career start race record. Without going back […]
