Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Yeah Richie, why are restricted races given Group 1 status? Golden Slippers, Derbies, Oak, even your much yearned for (but not yet achieved) Group 1 The Everest – none of them should be black type if we follow your logic. Every man and his dog are blowing up about the WA Premier Mark McGowan banning […]
The call in Japanese is a hoot!! Sumomomomomomomomo, a Japanese racehorse that recently claimed its maiden win, was dubbed “the horse that makes commentators cry” because of its tongue-twister name. The three-year-old mare claimed victory at Tokyo’s Oi racecourse a couple of weeks ago and has since become somewhat of a celebrity on Japanese social media. […]
The boom 2-year-old filly Honey Pot missed the start 5 lengths in the 1st race at the Sunshine Coast yesterday afternoon. Despite this massive insurmountable handicap the Gollan trained filly somehow managed to run 5th beaten just half a length in a 1000m race in which the winner came home its final three furlongs (600m) […]
NSW gallops mentor Garry White has never been a great trainer, or really anything much more than struggle street Stan. His career strike rate is about 11%. Between April and September this year he all but doubled it. 10 from 50 at 20% White returned during this period. It would be nice to think that […]
Caulfield are going to get 10 000 people to the races on Saturday week are they? Oh yeah. How? A real good crowd on a pre-COVID Caulfield Guineas day only 22 000. Outside of Cup and Guineas days the average attendance at the track is about 3 000 – 4 000 tops, and those numbers […]
I missed out on my turn to pay for dinner last time Sheila Laxon and Johnny Symons were up in the Douglas, and no it wasn’t deliberate, I got sick. I doubt it will matter too much after the plunge the perfect pair landed at Doomben yesterday. Symons doesn’t bet a lot, but when he […]
What a wonderful thing yesterday’s Gatton memorial race day is. A card held in memory of the people who made the Lockyer Valley Turf Club and it’s racetrack what it is. It is just brilliant. An outstanding idea and a fitting tribute to those who came before. Every race club in the land should have […]
We have written many times about Masterati, the galloper that while in the ‘care’ of trainer Grant Young in Oakbank, SA was Australia’s most overworked horse. Young used to race the poor thing every week, week in week out, and sometimes even 2 or 3 times a week, all to juice the lemon and win […]
Darrel Graham Darrel Graham is a 53-year-old trot trainer, driver and owner who has been involved in the sport as a licensee since his teens, which was in the 1980’s. In all of that time D. Graham has incurred a single minor substance rule breach, which was acknowledged as an error based on vets advice, […]
When we were kids everyone dreamed of riding flying horses. Times have changed. No-one wanted to ride Benchi Pegasus at Julia Creek on Saturday. They had to scratch him from three races on the same day for want of a jockey, which surely must be some sort of record. I guess when it is hard […]
