Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is the Stewards report from the meeting at which all the races were put back hours. The stipes say that the reason was to accommodate for the race day clerks to arrive on course. Where do they live? Mars? A better question might be who their relatives are, blood or otherwise. In any event, […]
THE shenanigans of four protestors chaining themselves to the running rail at Cannington on Saturday night threw the night’s racing schedule into chaos. While all the attention on Perth was at Optus Stadium, very little air time has been given to the lunatics who were promptly marched away by police. The police arrived from Cannington […]
Gloaming. Heroic. Windbag. Phar Lap. Bernborough. Delta. Tulloch. Gunsynd. Kingston Town. Emancipation. Might and Power. Lonhro. Winx. Knights Order. Can spot the odd one out? It’s not very hard. This is a roll call of Chelmsford Stakes winners. It has always been a great race. Until today. This year’s version was a race for first-up […]
Have you ever heard of a race meeting that is being conducted on a Heavy 8 and quite raceable track being delayed by several hours to allow the course proper to dry out further? Why would the authorities do such a thing if the track was deemed safe to race on? Could it possibly be […]
Sometimes in this racing life things happen, or – in the case I’m about to talk about, don’t happen – that render you speechless and leave you sitting there thinking if this is it, what’s that? Today was one of those days. 13 days ago the Chris Waller trained Durston raced in a 2000m Group […]
1 – Troy Walsh, trainer Nick Walsh’s dad 2 – Nick Walsh’s horse Age of Innocence 3 – Trainer Nick Walsh’s brother Nick Walsh is a baby faced kid in his 20’s, who has been training for less than 3 years. He is the new Ben Currie, a genius who can turn a slow horse […]
It is only a little thing to most, but to journalists and racing writers it’s huge. Imagine if you discovered something that would extend your life by 10 years. It would be worth a fortune, and you would be rich beyond compare. Unless someone stole it from you, and became rich instead. Little shitty stories […]
About four months ago we warned you that the Western Australian vego-fascist animal activist and adult entertainment artist Tash Peterson was planning to disrupt the Million Dollar Chase. We were not making it up. It didn’t happen in the end because Peterson couldn’t put together a crew to pull it off, but it was going […]
In horse racing it’s not always the horse, jockey or trainer that makes the headlines. Owners are sometimes fleeting, often fascinating and polarising. Many hold the stage only for as long as their horse is winning big races. There are “constants” like the big Arabs, Irish and big syndicate heads, but there are also those […]
