Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 1 at Burnie, Friday night. $5950 in stakes. 10 horse race. Ben Yole trains them all, every single one. Watch the horse in the purple and white in the 1-1 in the replay of the last lap (below). Tell me it was trying. Go on, I dare you. This is match fixing, right in […]
This is the race that Tommy Berry was telling the Butcher about. Berry’s message is very, very instructive. Allow me to break it down for you. You know the worst thing? He told me it (Wairere Falls) would win before I got on him. Who did? It wasn’t the trainer Chris Waller. He was down in […]
The sender is Tommy Berry, The receiver is the Butcher. It’s probably just apropos of nothing at all. Until we publish the next one.
What you are seeing at the top is the start. Thomas Stockdale – who I suggest is the leader of the pack in all this – comes flying across on the horse in red and blue. Matthew Chadwick – a definite co-offender- lets him go. They both let the horse in the grey ridden by […]
Then one Le Blanc’s horse gets the spot, Chadwick and Stockdale look at each other. Chadwick is also looking back at Le Blanc. Soon you will know why.
Celine Gaudry – the gal caught out at the BNB with Zahra, Melham, Brown and Kah – enters the scene. She has been sitting outside Le Blanc’s horse, but drops off and allows the other apprentice to come off the fence. Both Chadwick and Stockdale look around to check that she has. Why? Why do […]
So how did Chadwick get from outside the leader to being 4 wide? He steered there, that’s why. Chadwick moved out to allow Le Blanc through. And when he saw she was coming, he stayed wide.
That was about all she wrote, except for three things. Chadwick’s whip use. Or non-whip use really – he was only hitting his horse to make it duck in behind Le Blanc’s. Gaudry running her horse up behind the one in front instead of looking for a run. She is in the Black Caviar type […]
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, / Gang aft agley (often go astray) – Robert Burns Kiwi drivers Blair Orange and Gavin Smith has it all worked out in the 9th at Addington today. Orange’s was on A Bettor You, the odds on favourite from the Mark Purdon stable at $1.80. It was […]
42.8! That’s ridiculous! A ridiculous lead time. That is the fastest for trotters by a furlong, and these are 2YO Fillies! Dan Milecki wasn’t wrong. Brad Williamson went mental in the Group 1 Breeders Crown 2YO fillies trot on the Kiwi Aroha Kenny (it means Love Kenny, which it’s driver didn’t). He took the favourite […]
