Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Back when the Brisbane gallops steward Paul Zimmerman and I used to sit in class together at school we were both far more interested in reading the form guide that we used to conceal inside our textbooks than reading the actual books themselves like we were supposed to. I made up for it by reading […]
I’ve had enough of V’Landys and his Everest. He can stick his Kosciuszko up his arse. Both of them wear blue, and we are maroon. You can take the Archer and insert it where the sun doesn’t shine. Queensland has been a racist police state for 150 year’s, and time is up. Everyone in the […]
Peter Moody at the track at Emerald on Queensland Country Racing Awards weekend 2020 I had the chance to speak the great Peter Moody a few minutes ago about the crazy situation we have on our hands where the attendees to the Queensland Country Racing Awards are being invited/encouraged by the Awards organising committee to […]
The Queensland Country Racing Awards is supposed to be the showcase of country racing in the State, and in previous years has been, but the privatisation of the formerly volunteer run On The Bit Racing into the hands of an elite few has driven a huge wedge in the sport and turned the once hugely […]
As most racing people will know, Peter V’Landys original idea for the Everest wasn’t original at all. Everything is borrowed, and PVL borrowed the concept from the Pegasus World Cup, the then $12 million slot race run by the private US race track operator the Stronach Group, who in response to the usurping of its […]
Whip use in horse racing simply does not belong in 2022 Helena Gartner, Swedish Racing Regulations Committee Sweden has long been known as a progressive nation in its social policies, and in the past decade in particular this extended out to the its attitude to animal welfare issues and the use of the whip in […]
There are two big drugs in racing cases going on in the USA this week. One is the one that we have been focusing on – the one that we call the FBI case – involving mass produced illegal and misbranded drugs, bent chemists, crooked vets, and cheating trainers. The other is the case brought […]
Racing writer Bruce ‘Snowy’ Clark is one of life’s great conundrums. Clark is a hugely talented wordsmith when he is on song and trying – which is about one week in ten – but his ability is subsumed by his lack of objectivity, and his slavish devotion to crafting stories that keep him in the […]
I recall asking the former Warwick Farm trainer Mick Mair on his arrival to his new Sunshine Coast base at Corbould Park, the very probing question along the lines of “how is it going?” Probably expecting a similar banal response to a half volley opener outside off stump. “Mate I came here with nothing – […]
The champagne corks are popping down at the Aspley Leagues Club this morning at the news that their most famous member Pamela Kay O’Neill – universally known and loved as Pam or Pammy – has been honoured in the Australia Day awards for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in racing with the […]
