Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We can be anything we want to be in this life. A clown with pinned eyes who thinks a little watched show on trotstv.com.au makes him a rock star, who most women think is a sleaze. A dud race caller with the eye of a one-eyed-man, who takes $90 grand a year from a membership […]
John O’Shea has copped a ‘significant blow’ drawing barriers 20 and 21 with I Am Lethal and Bend The Knee says Jett Hatton, a cub journo three months out of his apprenticeship. There are five emergencies in the Magic Millions Guineas, so the O’Shea pair have really drawn 15 and 16. Draws like this aren’t […]
How odd that a Battle of the Bush winning trainer’s entire stable of runners would be scratched from a race meeting. Come to think of it, David Reynolds hasn’t had a runner since New Year’s Day. I wonder if he has COVID-19? They say it’s running rampant out where he’s currently staying.
Campbell Rawiller is a Melbourne-based apprentice who is indentured to trainer Logan McGill. From March to June last year Rawiller spent three months in Sydney on loan to trainer Gai Waterhouse improving his experience and skills, but he returned to Victoria at the end of the loan period, and has been riding there since. The […]
Extremely disturbing reports are floating in about a Queensland race horse trainer with a history of domestic violence order breaches who has been arrested by police and remanded in custody for alleged offences against another woman in the past week. The licensee is believed to be trainer who won a rich major provincial series final […]
I was talking to mate over email tonight and the subject of Shane Loone came up. For those not familiar with the name or the sport, Loone is a lifelong cheat who is afflicted by a rapacious form of cancer, and is unlikely to see ID25. It hasn’t slowed him down though, for over the […]
The Second Coming It was great to see Ric McMahon back where he belongs riding at the metro tracks this week, even if it was just for one ride. Wasn’t it nice of the QRIC to give the former seasons 2006 and 2007 champion Brisbane apprentice his 3kg claim back after more than a decade […]
I hope I break even today. I need the money. Punter at Aquaduct racecourse, name unknown All of life is 6/5 against Damon Runyon Always back the horse named self-interest. It’s the only one trying. Jack Lang, former NSW Premier This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother Former UK jockey Ted […]
On New Year’s Eve a non-TAB meeting was held at Emerald, the capital town of the cluster of Bowen Basin coal mining settlements. Emerald used to be a nothing track in the middle of nowhere, but when coal boomed it all of a sudden became important, and has ever since been attracting the attention of […]
