God Bless the Punter
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.
Gunstock is a Certainty
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.
How Do They Beat Maximal in the Golden Eagle?
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 […]
Forget All the Spin and Glitter About the Trots in Queensland – Here Are the Cold, Hard and Very Dark Facts
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 Ride Most Foul – And the Stewards Who Can’t See
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 […]
The Sheriff Gets the Badge
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 […]
Way Beyond Stamps the Million Dollar Bondi Form
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 […]
PVL Gets Dumped by a Two Foot Wave at Bondi
What an abject failure The Bondi is. PVL aced Melbourne with The Everest – that is obvious by the rapid decline in quality of the field in the Manikato, a race in urgent need of repair – but he has overstretched his hand completely with this million dollar balls up. The winner Hilal is a […]
Another Day in Paradise
So the Stewards arrive at the non-TAB QLD race meeting at Clifton, and discover that the track has a hole in it near the crossing at the 1400m mark that nobody seems to have noticed before. A couple of blokes grab shovels and fill them in with some loose dirt they dig up from the […]
Yeah, and Going to the Opera is Exciting
The 2021 Cox Plate will go down as one of the most dramatic editions in its rich history – punters.com What a load of palaver. The only thing that the 2021 Cox Plate will go down in history as is one of the most boring editions of the race in history. Be honest. Were you […]