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The Fiasco at the US Breeders Explained by the Best in the US Business
The Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf may have followed the centerpiece Juvenile on the Del Mar card, but it provided more than enough drama to cap off the first day of the 2021 Breeders’ Cup. Modern Games (IRE) was the winner of the race while running for purse money only, while Tiz The Bomb […]
Fellow MyStableStralians, It is My Melancholy Duty to Inform You ….
… that our first MyStables runner went like a busted arse. There is no fraction of a cent for each us dear readers. https://cdn.prism.horse/media/dcf20bf8f81c4b64b7a108c414011fdd.mp4 Our debut as fractional owners of a unit trust full of D. Moodie bred/M. Ellerton trained runners has been an abject failure. Everything Nice ran 20.45 lengths last. It was probably […]
Killing an Arab
You couldn’t watch Mark Du Plessis’s ride on Blaze Seven in race at Ipswich this afternoon without a single word flashing across your brain in big bright lights. That word? Dead. Blaze Seven was backed from $6.50 into $4.40. Du Plessis gave it the perfect ride in the early to mid stages, popping it in […]
Cinderella Gets Five Million Slippers
Can anyone tell me the actual point of raising the Golden Slipper prizemoney from $3.5 million to $5 million? Is it going to attract a single extra horse to the race that was already the richest 2YO race in the world? Will it improve the quality of the Slipper one inch? Are punters going to […]
Iris Kelly Leaves Us a Winner
Former policeman and well known racing and sporting identity Jeff Kelly, son of a QLD Hall of Fame rugby league star, lost his mum the day after the Cox Plate. Iris was her name. By all reports she was a Hall of Famer too. Jeff’s mate John Lingard wrote a short but poignant tribute to […]
If You Believe the Gold Trip/Hard Track Scratching Story Then Say Hello to the Fairies at the Bottom of Your Garden For Me Please
One-time Cox Plate contender Gold Trip has been scratched again – this time by the stable just hours out from Saturday’s $750,000 Rosehill Gold Cup (2000m). A week after being eliminated from Cox Plate contention by the order of Racing Victoria vets, trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have elected to scratch Gold Trip due […]
Can Someone Tell Please Tell Queensland Racing Expert Nathan Exelby That We Are Racing Today at Eagle Farm?
He is a real journalist Nathan Exelby. Just ask him. He will tell you. He swears it in affidavits when bagging racing writers like me. Nathan did a single journalism unit in his Sports Science degree at ANU, where he had to go because he didn’t have a high enough TE score to get into […]
Gold Trip Out – Maybe the Victorians Were Right After All
Gold Trip has been scratched from the Rosehill Gold Cup. That’s the 2nd race in 2 weeks across 2 states that he been pulled out of. Perhaps the Victorian were right, and he is lame after all. More to follow.
Golden Eagle Day Tips – Back and Lay, Lay and Back
There are only two tips today, and only lays too. They’re in the same races. Back and lay boys and girls, back and lay. Race 6 – Masked Crusader The best sprinter in Australia in my view. The 1300m is no problem. He was enormous over the same trip in the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes […]