Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Today the great Australian writer Gerald Murnane was awarded an AO for services to literature and teaching. Gerald has been in the first 2 lines of betting for the Nobel Prize for Literature for what seems an extraordinary run. He is revered internationally by his peers, and his otherworldly writing has been profiled in The New […]
I am no fan of Mark Latham, in fact quite the opposite. But everyone gets it right sometimes. And Latham has done here.
Liberty Smith is 29 years old but has only been riding for 5 months. In that short time she has ridden 22 winners from 147 rides, at a strike rate of 15%. Hollie Hull is 26 years old and has been riding for 4 years. In that time she has has 215 mounts and booted […]
The horse I am pointing at in the photo at the top is Churpel, and the race is the 1st at Scone on Sunday. You can see clearly that Churpel’s inside barrier has opened before the other horses gates flew, but it is why that is the issue. Have a look at the video below. […]
The whispers out of the Tasmanian bunker are that big cuts are coming to the racing calendar for the coming year that will see the number of race meetings in all codes slashed due to financial pressures being experienced by the peak body Tasracing. We are told that 4 thoroughbred race meetings, 10 harness racing […]
See the ratings of the horse Smart Mission in the screenshot above taken from the Racing Australia (RISA) website above? Smart Mission has dropped 11 ratings points after its last start 5th at Mackay. Horses don’t drop eleven points after a loss. They drop one. Racing QLD have made a serious error here. As a […]
… doesn’t Sky commentator Brad ‘Davo’ Davidson shave his head? … did Martin Harley go back to the inside on Brave Monarch in the Fred Best Classic instead of trying to force a run to the outside? … do jockeys persist in taking runs toward the inner on wet tracks when the rail is clearly […]
Sunshine Coast trainer Billy Healey sent out a message to his stable clients a couple of days ago telling them that he had sacked his new Racing Manager Ben Currie. Some people believed it. Currie Racing has fired back. I know who I would bet on to be telling the truth about the whole affair. […]
Queensland’s former premier trainer turned racing manager Ben Currie looks to be out of work judging by the above message sent by trainer Billy Healey to stable clients yesterday. Whilst the message doesn’t state it explicitly, the obvious inference is that Healey has sacked Currie from his managerial role at the racing operation, an unexpected […]
Racing NSW CEO Peter V’Landys has announced that he will take 4 months long service leave from the role to allow him to concentrate all of his efforts on running the NRL after the departure of footy CEO Anthony Abdo. V’Landys deputy Graeme Hinton will act in the CEO role during his absence. PVL is […]
