Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
After 15 years in harness racing’s wilderness, former champion NSW reinsman Greg Bennett’s long march to freedom is over after the QLD Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) this week declared Bennett to be a fit and proper person to hold a Class A Driver’s License. In 2011 was stood down from the sport and later […]
How the hell have Hector, Tyson and Whos Delight got starts in the Redcliffe Gold Cup ahead of Greased Lightnin? Hector has won just 1 race from its past 23 starts. It is a rating NR107, but only on past deeds, not present. Whos Delight has won none of its past ten. It is rated […]
The Kevin Seymour owned/Grant Dixon trainer Path To Greatness galloped away from the stand in the Flashing Red at Albion Park on Saturday night. Watch. It’s the horse drawn second from the outside in the Dixon black and white checked silks. Path To Greatness no doubt gallops. You can see it clearly. In any usual […]
There are ten races at the rich Redcliffe Cup meeting on Saturday night. All of them are random barrier draws. The odds of a single trainer’s horse drawing the coveted pole position in five of them are astronomical. Unless of course his horses are all owned by Kevin Seymour. Grant Dixon has drawn 1 (after […]
As Archie has told you it’s my Nude Tips 1 year anniversary this Saturday and it’s been a wild and hugely enjoyable rollercoaster ride. I’ve picked this week’s photo in honor of my Viking ancestors, me going as hard as I can for the punters for 52 consecutive weeks of The Battle. I’ve won (editor’s […]
Based on how the last race at Mackay was run yesterday you would have to suspect that the winner Red Hot Lizzie is the best named horse in history, because this race sure did look red hot. Lizzie is trained by former trot driver Lachie Manzelmann. Manzelmann had four of the eleven runners in the […]
Savannah in the Round in Mareeba looks like the bomb. Icehouse, Gangajang, Mossie, The Wolfe Brothers, Dragon, Max Jackson, Lee Kernaghan, Chocolate Starfish, Brooke McLymont – whose Auntie I once had a dalliance with – Don McLean and more. How could you miss it? Maggie and I will be there with bells on. As long […]
The $1600 payment to trainer Clinton Taylor to compensate him for the costs involved in takin his horse to Townsville only to be late scratched because of a Racing QLD handicapping error is understandable. Racing QLD trying to place the blame on Racing Australia isn’t. RA isn’t Queensland’s Principal Racing Authority, RQ is. The blame […]
Race 1: PARKER’S PLUMBING & GASFIT OPEN Handicap (1100 METRES) ABLETT – Raced three-wide without cover throughout. Laid in under pressure in the home straight. HENRY’S BLADE – Blundered and dislodged its rider approaching the 300m. Upon veterinary examination it was revealed that the gelding had sustained a serious injury to its off-foreleg and was […]
I am not sure whether to describe what went on at yesterday’s non-TAB meeting at Wondai in QLD as a tragedy or a farce. It was probably both, and there but for the grace of God could have been a whole lot worse. A runner in the first race fell. Henry’s Blade was its name, […]
