Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tom Sherry’s 4 month suspension has been reduced to 2 months by the NSW Racing Appeals Panel. That seems a much more fair outcome all round. Sherry’s done the crime and has to do his time, but as we highlighted the other day 4 months seemed too stiff given the circumstances. Two months out doesn’t […]
This trend of naming horses after wild animals is starting to get out of hand. First the Kiwis send us over an Elephant, and the big eared bugger stomps all over them in the Sandown Stakes, before trampling the punters next time out in the Toorak. Then in race 2 at Launnie today the Taswegians […]
Tom Raudonikis left us for the great Cambelltown Oval in the sky 6 months ago. Someone must have forgotten to tell Racing Australia about Tommy Terrific’s passing. The great man is still this morning listed at the owner of Fisticuffs. Oh well. I guess he does own the biff in perpetuity.
On the back of a totally unexpected boom in wagering revenue during lockdown season, Racing Queensland have delivered a super impressive (on paper) $11.5 profit this year, and the whole Deagon office is walking around high-fiving and slapping each other backs. Enjoy it while you can RQ can-can dancers, for the bad times are just […]
For twelve teeth gnashing months Richard Callendar, purportedly Australia’s most controversial racing commentator, has bored us all witless with his weekly spruiks for The Everest. It should be a Group 1. It has to be a Group 1. It must be a Group 1. The pattern committee sucks. The pattern committee should be sacked. The […]
When a dual licensed jockey/trainer has a runner in a race they are not allowed to ride any other horse. Black and white, no ifs or buts, full stop, end of story. As we told you a few days ago, dual licensee Cheryl Rogers rode a horse in the 2nd race at Gayndah against one […]
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. […]
