Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Once upon a time the boxer Michael Katsidis was a world champion. Then his beloved brother and gun jockey Stathi died of a drug overdose, and Mick lost the plot. He got on the gear too, and it’s all been downhill from there. I won’t go into Mick’s history, other than to say it is […]
All this hue and cry and international outrage about the compulsory new CT scan testing required prior to a horse being accepted into the Melbourne Cup, and Racing Victoria did not even have a back up plan should the scanner break down. That is just incomprehensible and inexcusable, and negligence of the highest order. A […]
How did jockey Blake Spriggs get away with this? Spriggs is on the horse in the yellow and red one off the fence up about third. It’s horse in the light paled salmon and black on her inside that you are looking at. Bang! Spriggs feels the check he has just caused the other horses […]
They say should pray for the dead. I say the living are few, but the dead are many. Just look at some of the rides and drives we have seen lately. There is no need to pray on Derby Day. We’ve got it covered.
Don’t worry about Gunstock’s draw in the Derby. It won’t matter. This horse is a gun, just as its name suggests. Jockey Jye McNeil is a gun too. He won last year’s Cup don’t forget. He will win the Derby too. Just get on.
The Golden Eagle is, in my view, another Peter V’Landys mistake. Not the race. It is superb. The timing. This is too big and too good a race to be going head to head with Derby day. It’s like putting a Tyson fight at his best on v an Ali one when the Champ is […]
This is an ugly picture isn’t it? Harness racing in Queensland has lost nearly $40 million over the past six years. The losses are year on year, with no profit or break square periods in between. Thoroughbred and Greyhound racing are paying for these losses. Those two codes are subsiding harness racing prizemoney to the […]
A horse named Rushford was backed from $7 into $4.80 in the 5th race at Yarra Valley on Saturday afternoon. Another runner in the race Southern Native was backed from $9.50 into $6.50. The favourite is Valley of Hearts, which has been steady in the market at $3.60 Liam Riordan is riding a $31 outsider […]
I think Williams was also to blame for initially rolling out on Anamoe before State Of Rest started his inward movement. It was clearly going to be dismissed. One cancelled the other out and the sensible decision was to leave the result as it was. There was a little bit of interference, but it was […]
On Sunday morning in an article about the Bondi we told you that Keefy, the runner up in Peter V’Landys mad million dollar race for 3-year-olds, had run second the start before in a Class 3 at Caloundra to a horse named Way Beyond. I neglected to mention that I knew a bit about that […]
