Every Dog Has a Heart
No one is totally bad. Every dog has a heart. If you look real close you will see. Art is just like racing. Something that only genius’s can conquer. Chris Waller take a bow. Ciaron Maher and Maggie too.
Lizzy Jelfs? – Don’t Ask
I am away from home, and thus don’t have my usual selections of racing channels, so am stuck watching 71. That means I have to cop Lizzie Jelfs. Personally I would rather cut my arm off. Lizzie starts launching into a monologue about how only the very greats of racing win back to back Australian […]
Do You Reckon The VRC Do Happy Endings
I have known plenty of blokes in my time who have gone to a massage parlor after a win at the races. But I have never known one who went to the track to get a massage. Until now. The VRC seem to have extended the idea of a day at the races to include […]
PVL Does it Again
Earlier in the week Racing NSW used their contingency fund to implement starter payments for owners and trainers of horses to offset their increased costs due to the rapidly rising cost of petrol. Today it is the low paid workers in racing’s turn and work at least 8 hours a week will receive $100 a […]
Peter V’Landys Does It Again – This Bloke is Iraklis
Those who knock Peter V’Landys are imbeciles in my opinion, and I mean that with the greatest of respect. Just look at what he has done here. The price of fuel is going through the roof, trainers can’t sleep at night worried that they are f**ked, owners are thinking to themselves “Sh*t, how am I […]
A Very Bad Call
Racing Queensland confirms that a back-up race meeting has been programmed for the Polytrack at Sunshine Coast Turf Club on Sunday, March 22, in the event the club’s race meeting on its course proper on the day is unable to proceed. In the event there is a deluge of rain which causes the course […]
Our Kevin Makes Number 220 on the Aussie Rich List
Leap To Fame’s popular owner Kevin Seymour AM has made number 220 on the Australian rich list announced today in the national newspaper. He still hasn’t cracked the billion though which is disappointing. Still and all you couldn’t be unhappy with $849 million and the greatest champion in Australian harness racing history, could you? Some […]
Tips and Rumours, Bits and Pieces
Gimme No Lies, and Keep Your Hands to Yourself Which horsewoman turned racing media manager associated with a speedster who won 16 races from 18 starts has lodged, or is about to lodge, a sexual harassment claim against a boss of a major yearling sales company, with the allegations being made said not to be […]
So How and Why Did It Drop Dead? – We Will Never Know Now Will We?
The hitherto healthy 4-year-old mare Overwatch returns to the mounting yard at Cluden Park on Sunday after running second last in a Maiden and drops dead. Gee that’s normal isn’t it? The Stewards panel chaired by D. Griffitths says the mare died of a cardiac arrest, aka a heart attack. But there is no record […]
The ATC v Racing NSW Decision Explained in Simple Geebung Terms – It’s a Crock
Here is the guts of the Australian Turf Club v Racing decision in the Supreme Court. It’s extremely complicated, and I had to read it ten times or more before I understood it, so I have reduced it to the most simple term possible and and am using a mix of the Geebung dialect and […]