Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
THE COX PLATE 1. John Allen What a great ride that was by John Allen, simply superb. A very well known and somewhat brilliant jockey of my acquaintance told me last night when he was tipping me the winner that he rated Allen as a gun. He was spot on both ways. 2. So You […]
Having a camera truck blocking the vision of the race was not the greatest start to Moonee Valley’s biggest day of the year. Give yourselves an uppercut racing.com. Not all of us started the day so badly though. A glass of $19 Semillion anyone?
What the hell is Racing Victoria doing by allowing this Gold Trip – Cox Plate fiasco to unfold the way it has? Is the high class French horse sound or is it not sound? Surely with less than 36 hours to go until post time someone must know. This whole thing has turned into a […]
Punting Patto was either the maddest character ever to step on a race track, or the best actor in the world. Either way he was a whole lot of fun. I don’t know what happened to Patto. He disappeared about 7 years or so ago. Let’s hope he’s alright. Somehow I doubt it.
Maggie picked up on this one. Fuller Cee Ess. What do you reckon the name means? Here are three clues.
Mrs and Mrs Gray who own the recently retired racehorse Celtic Tiger have sponsored a race named after him today at Ipswich to wish their mighty steed a happy retirement. The love of good owners knows no bounds, but it sure does bring a smile to your face. One would imagine that retirement has to […]
5 June 2021 A well fancied runner in the last is listed in official publications as having had a gear change by adding winkers. It is in fact wearing blinkers. The false advice to punters is blamed on a clerical error. 12 June 2021 There are delays to advertised starting times throughout the program due […]
See this man? His name is Jeff, although his mates call him Budgie. If you were him you’d me smiling too. Martin Luther King had a dream. It was about ending racism. We don’t have to worry about that up here in the rainforest. In Kuranda we’re black, white, brown, brindle, whatever. Sometime we are […]
During the week I put forth the proposition forward that Incentivise would have to be Might and Power to win the Caulfield Cup today, and expressed doubt that he would. How wrong I was. Incentivise IS Might and Power. He may even be Phar Lap yet too, who knows? What a horse. What a win. […]
