Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
By force of his ‘every man’ persona reinforced through his entertaining post-race interviews and his prominent role on television advertising tractors Bjorn trainer Baker has become somewhat of the voice of the average person in racing in recent times. Baker speaks common sense in a way that is without airs or seeming self-interest, and in […]
We all accept that accidents happen in life, but in a multi-billion dollar industry like racing it is incumbent on those who hold race meetings to have in place contingency arrangements in case of things such as the failure of essential equipment required for race days. Equipment like operational and fully functioning barrier stalls. Somewhat […]
The AI driven race caller of the future, working out of a data studio. He sort of looks like a young D. Fowler too. The move this week by Tabcorp/Sky to slash the number of race callers without putting any new ones on says three things to us. One is that Gillon McLachlan’s public shine […]
Australia’s favorite on-course punter David ‘Baldy’ Frolley – known to his friends as Wok – is the last of the diehards whose days are spent turning up to the track to chase the ponies and trying to turn a quid. Baldy is seen at racecourses all up and down the eastern seaboard, from Victoria to […]
Some people in racing don’t seem to want to help themselves. Take for example these two riders photographed recently working at the Callaghan Park track in Rockhampton. Trackwork riders are supposed to wear high-vis vests so that they can be easily seen by others in the pre-dawn darkness. The rider pictured – – understood to […]
Written Scandal looked well-weighted in the fifth race at Canterbury, with the last start winner to carry only 59kg in the BM64 after apprentice Braith Nock’s two kilogram claim. Punters like Kingsley Bartholomew certainly thought so, for they backed the horse from $4.80 into $2.60 at the jump. There was something none of them knew […]
City Of Troy at Coolmore, wearing his Longines World’s Best Horse rug By Will Jones, award winning author of The Black Horse Newsletter Aidan O’Brien, of course, told everyone City Of Troy was his best Epsom Derby winner and even the best horse he had ever trained. No one, of course, believed him; it was […]
The hearing of a raft of charges against Victorian greyhound trainer Ivan Chircop – most of them dismissed – lifted a veil on the capacity (or lack thereof) of Greyhound Racing Victoria to effectively employ an intelligence based approach to integrity management. It may also have shone a light on potential nepotism within the organisation. […]
Archie, Kristian from Coogee here peeped Mr Wade Birch at Randwick on Saturday for the big day at races (pictured above). Peeped him filming horses in the parade yard for someone. And having a Rex Hunt on them as well. Mr Birch seems perfectly placed for a job at the QLD Racing Commission (note no […]
Our mail out of the BRT is that two one-time bosom buddies are not so pally-pally anymore. The pair, who a few years back were convicted of defrauding Racing QLD, were inseparable in the days when one was a dirt digging contractor and the other a contract manager and they were pulling tender rorts, but […]
