Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mark Latham left Randwick Racecourse on Saturday with, potentially, a huge loss — after he was sensationally served with a bankruptcy notice for the more than $170,000 in damages he owes after he vilified and defamed an openly gay parliamentary colleague. The Saturday Telegraph, covering The Golden Eagle racing event on Saturday, captured Mr Latham […]
Apprentice Jason Miller has been been declared as the rider for 3 horses at Mt Isa today, and 5 at Barcaldine. Unless Miller is Houdini he cannot ride at 2 meetings located 755km apart on the same day. And accepting mounts you can’t fulfil is a breach of the rules. So why has Racing QLD […]
This the 2020 Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment, on a promotional tour to spruik this year’s Melbourne Cup. It is being ridden on a registered racecourse, which I suspect is Flemington, but am not quite sure. It doesn’t matter where it is really. What does matter is that the woman on board is wearing high […]
Jockey Reece Jones was thrown from his mount when returning to scale after race 2 at Scone on Friday, and hit the ground hard, banging his head. The on-course paramedics diagnosed the rider as displaying signs of concussion and stood him down from his remaining mounts for the day. If Jones rode in Victoria or […]
What an absolute cracker of a meeting it was at Eagle Farm yesterday. Just six races, half of them maidens, one with only six runners and two with just eight. An early and main quaddie that overlaps in two races. What is the point? Running such a poor program costs as much it earns. There […]
Story by CNN In the weird and wonderful history of horse racing, Frank Hayes holds a unique place. On June 4, 1923 at New York’s Belmont Park, the 22-year-old (or 35, according to some newspaper reports at the time) won the only race of his career on the horse Sweet Kiss. He also became the […]
The curtain draws down on nearly a century of racing this Friday night at Wentworth Park and the crowd to farewell the spiritual home of NSW greyhound racing is going to be huge, with tickets already well and truly sold out. It will be the last time we ever see big crowds at the Sydney […]
Presidential candidate Rebecca Conlan, competing in the Masters Games, with her mum Barb, who lived in the street behind my parents in Aspley before moving up north to the promised land The election for President of the Cairns Jockey Club will be decided today. It’s Tom Hedley v Rebecca Conlam. The old vs the new. […]
The animal activists hate greyhound racing, and they hate the hurdles too. Horses jumping over hurdles I mean. Dogs doing it would horrify them. It shouldn’t. All the experts say that the slower the racing, the safer the greyhound. When dogs have to fly over fences they slow down, and are slower to quicken up […]
There is no Stewards Report up yet, so we cannot say it for certain, but if the Tanya Parry trained galloper I’lltellyouafter isn’t dead this morning then I’m not here. It’s break down in the maiden yesterday at Richmond in Far North Western QLD was catastrophic. It brought tears to your eyes. How the mare […]
