Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It was a big day out at Alpha yesterday, with thousands of keen bush racegoers shelling out the hundred to get through the gates, and then later partying into the night. A great time is said to have been had by all. Congratulations to the club committee and all the volunteers and staff who made […]
Random human sampling? WTF? Which riders did they eat? Do you reckon they tasted good? Most of them would be a bit like quail in my opinion, and the ones who aren’t would taste like old leather. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I wouldn’t want a sample of one of them though. […]
Mr Butterfly In a follow up to the Alpha story, I had a giggle at the bookies response. First of all I wonder how many of those trainers, owners, bookies and, jockeys who stood up and defended the meeting’s entry price actually had to part with $100 to get into the track? Scribe will tell […]
The QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP), which we always spoke of so highly when it was under the leadership of the esteemed retired judge and brilliant jurist Kerry O’ Brien, has turned bizarro since His Honour left the building. A bloke named Dr Peter McDermott RFD is now the Chair of the Panel. RFD is […]
Gitalong wins two races, one at Gladstone, the other at Roma. This bloke’s a rating 71 horse before either win. It doesn’t get any penalty or increase at all for the Gladstone win, and remains a rating 71. Then comes the Roma win and Gitalong goes up just two ratings points to 73. Compare that […]
The highlights that the QLD bush town of Alpha (pop. 599) are that it has a tourism information centre, golf course, art gallery, showground, Racecourse, parks, swimming pool, tennis courts, museum, hardware store, newsagents, bank, pub, grocery store, butcher, baker – but no candle maker – a post office, BP, Caltex, craft shop, hairdresser, pharmacy, […]
There are 5 races at Mt Isa, with a total of 40 runners. Tanya Parry trains 34 of them. That’s 85% of the horses on the card. Parry trains all of the 8 in race one, and each of the 9 in race 4. She has 5 of the 7 in races two and three, […]
A lot of punters and scribes are getting excited about the Group 1 Tatts Tiara at Eagle Farm on Saturday, and many are talking up the chances of the Naked Tipster’s favorite mare Splash Back, but I warn them all not to get too excited. The word from the early morning track that I’m hearing […]
Dear Sir Response to your recent story about the race clubs who don’t deserve a license, straight way there is one that comes to mind immediately in the Emerald Jockey Club. This club is involved in very well-known ongoing tirade and hostility towards a very popular and successful trainer at Emerald. Not only is this […]
Kevin Seymour is all the above. Smart in this context because he entered three mares in the QLD Sun – an automatic qualifier for the G1 Rising Sun – and thus under the preferential barrier draw by age and sex conditions of the race secured the trio the inside barriers 1-2-3. Lucky because his other […]
