Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The bloke in the picture is the starter responsible for the disaster at Doomben yesterday in race 6. We don’t know the flash Harry looking fella’s name, but we do know one thing. He should take get a white cane to match his dark sunnies, and maybe a guide dog too. How else could you […]
For months Frankie Ferocious was odds-on favorite to win last night’s Group 1 Rising Sun at Albion Park, and given his victories in the Group 2 Victorian 4YO Bonanza in the summer and the Group 1 Chariots of Fire in the autumn, so he should have been. In fact on those performances his right price […]
I don’t know about you, but I normally hang out or stand up straight when I’m checking out the talent. Methinks the Stewards report might be a mistake. What about you?
Have you ever seen a stuff-up like the start of race 6 at Doomben yesterday in your life? The rider of Glorious Ruby gets hurled out the back of the stalls. There is shouting and commotion everywhere, and the official behind the gates raises their hand to alert the starter, but it doesn’t work. Somehow […]
In scenes straight out of the movie Dumb and Dumber, apprentices Tahlia Fenton and Alisha Donald were both yesterday fined by Stewards at the Ipswich meeting for breaches of the rules relating to jockeys phone use. They should also have been charged with rank stupidity. Fenton’s offence involved using her mobile phone while in the […]
Something strange went on at the far-western country TAB meeting at Barcaldine on Monday. The previous Wednesday only 5 horses had been pre-race swabbed at the midweek metropolitan TAB meeting at Eagle Farm. At Barcaldine 15 runner were. All of the jockeys riding at the meeting were swabbed too. Blood was taken from 7 of […]
Take a look at the three short clips below. They were taken at the starts of races 4 and 5 at Oak Park on Friday, and race 1 at the same track on Saturdy. In particular watch what the barrier attendant in the red vest does. His name is Kyle Sharp. WTF? Since when were […]
Things are looking grim for the day’s racing at the Sunshine Coast if the rain keeps coming. The track this morning is rated a Heavy 9, with the penotrometer reading 7.5, which means that the horse will be cutting deep into the track from the get go. Given the way the Caloundra course proper has […]
The longest drought in Central QLD racing history finally broke on Thursday when Cashin’ Chex stormed to the line to give Mackay trainer Drew Crouch his first winner since March in the year 2006, way back when little Johnny Howard still ruled Australia and James’ Blunt’s Beautiful soared on top of the charts. It had […]
The tempestuous career of talented apprentice Bailey Wheeler has struck another setback, as usual one totally of his own making, when he was this week suspended for 28 days for lying to the Stewards at the Ipswich Cup meeting. Details are a little scant, but the guts of it is that when Wheeler turned up […]
