Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The 5YO mare Benoni had been around 33 times before she finally broke her maiden at Coonamble on Sunday. Good on the mare and her connections, but there was something very, very weird about the win. Three weeks ago Benoni ran second in a maiden at Warren beaten a long neck, at a price of […]
If Group 1 winning jockey turned Group 1 winning trainer Mark Riley is not the hardest done by man in racing, he is at least in the top 5. Riley is serving an effective life sentence for the grand crime of presenting a horse to race when it was close to over the TCO2 limit. […]
Big Philou’s nobbling in 1967 was the most controversial Caulfield Cup affair in history, but I wasn’t alive then. The greatest Caulfield Cup controversy in my lifetime occurred in 1998. An English galloper named Taufan’s Melody had made the trip across the oceans to have a crack at the Cups double, after having been invited […]
Tom Sherry’s appeal against his 4-month suspension for breaching the Racing NSW rules and policies in regard to COVID-19 related matters will be heard early this week, perhaps as early as today. It is our view that Tom Sherry has been treated very harshly and unfairly in the carriage of this matter, and in sentencing. […]
Boncel Benjamin spent the first six years of his racing life in Victoria, first under the care of M. Stanley, and then after that as a member of trainer S. Duffy’s barn. He had 70 starts during that time – none at Group level – and never won at a distance of a mile or […]
I wonder what David Beirne and his bevy of gurus in charge of trading promotions TAB thought they were going to achieve by paying out early on Zaaki in the Cox Plate a fortnight ago, other than to make themselves look like fools? Will the shareholders sue them for all the dough they paid out […]
Australia’s self appointed historian and national moraliser Peter Fitzsimons is off on another one of his wild ant-greyhound racing rants in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, but all it does is make him look silly. I guess that’s not too hard. Fitzsimons basic positions are that: greyhound racing is bad greyhound racing is really bad greyhound […]
The Toorak Handicap has always been a great race, and this year is no different. Despite there being a million chances, I reckon it is a two horse race Dice Roll v Superstorm, and they are both as delicious double figure odds. Dice Roll first. This former French juvenile star didn’t fire a shot in […]
Tasmanian thoroughbred racing’s principal track at Elwick, Hobart has been a cluster duck since the wholesale reconstruction a couple of years ago that saw the ‘old fashioned’ grass grown in dirt course proper that had worked reasonably well for almost 200 years dug up and replaced with a ‘modern’ Strathayr sand-based track It has been […]
Dear Richard As you know I am very fond of you, and when you are in peak form hold you in high esteem as a racing writer. Sadly however mate you have been going about as good as Kubrick lately. Remember him? He won the first edition of that ridiculous million dollar wank of a […]
