Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jockey Michael Murphy is one year younger than James Orman, and not far short of him in raw natural ability, but in terms of maturity, discipline and stability the pair are a world apart. Murphy’s a great young kid too, a really nice bloke who would give you the shirt off his back. The sort […]
Allan Endresz obviously wasn’t at Eagle Farm yesterday. As he told the newspapers, he was at home at the bedside of his ailing, beloved wife Joy watching Alligator Blood win the Straddie on his phone. I tell you what though, the fella in the picture at the top who was the centre of attention in […]
These are a selection of the blokes Fashions on the Field winners over the Brisbane Winter Carnival. Wouldn’t you just love to kick around the track looking like this? It’s every punters dream. Once upon a time Fine and Dandy was a Group 1 winning racehorse who flogged them in the Sires Produce at Eagle […]
Max Presnell is like many old men who have seen plenty of it starting to live in the past. It shows in his article today bemoaning the lack of quality in the past 25 Straddies, and his yearning for imagines days of yore when the top liners were just so much better than they are […]
The Nonnie is the curse of punters the world around. Nonnie stands for non-winner, and we’re talking maidens here. We are talking horses that appear to have the world of ability and often start favourite, but just refuse to stick their head out on the line when it counts, or shirk the task when they […]
A reader has kindly set us straight on the origin of the name Mr Kaplan for the Tony Herlihy 3YO pacing filly in New Zealand. Apparently Mr Kaplan is the alias used by a female character named Kathryn Nemec in a reportedly outstanding American crime thriller TV series called The Blacklist. This is what the […]
Mirrors is a con man, a fraudster, a thief and a weak gutted cat. He’s a dog too. The fact that he is still allowed on Queensland race courses is a disgrace. I don’t know what to say about the licensees who walk up and shake his hand. There is something very wrong with this […]
In Queensland the answer is seven. See the official Stewards Report from Eagle Farm yesterday (above)? Ingratiating was slow to begin and raced wide without cover it says. I backed Ingratiating. It is the horse in the Godolphin blue in the replay below. As you can see, Ingratiating never, ever left the fence, not even […]
I’ve just been reading through the Racing Victoria ‘Green Paper’ – Strategic Plan – for the next decade, and am sitting here shaking my head and wondering what planet these people are on. Some of RV’s potential (read: gunna happen, but we just can’t say so yet) plans are no brainers. Sandown gets sold to […]
