Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I’ve said since before last year’s Everest that Eduardo doesn’t get a strong 1200m. I just never expected that it would it take until today for the connections to get it too. Nash Rawiller handed the race to Nature Strip by sitting off him instead of racing him up front per Eduardo’s usual racing pattern. […]
Race 4 – The Ethereal – Number 11 DAISIES This Mick Price and Mick Kent Jr trained filly who was been aimed at the VRC Oaks for a more than a year now was a huge run in the Edward Manifold, the mile race named after a private school toff and former VRC Committeeman who […]
Wet tracks all round make for a tough day on the punt, but it won’t stop any of us from trying. After all, what else are you going to do a Saturday afternoon when the footy season’s over? Spring cleaning? Puh-lease. You will be able to pay a cleaner on Monday after we fill up […]
Never Breed or Buy. Always Adopt. Always Have Animals Spayed or Neutered. Please join countless other kind people who are working to prevent animal homelessness. Find out how you can help, and please pledge to do your part to end this crisis. Every animal bred and born—on purpose or by accident—and every animal purchased from a breeder […]
PETA (above) claiming that Hitler didn’t have the same ideas as them by saying that even if he did, noble causes shouldn’t be abandoned just because they were supported by Nazis who fed people into gas chambers and threw their bodies into mass holes Hunting and horse races are the last vestiges of a dead […]
Well it probably wasn’t, but I am writing this story so I am allowed to call Cole Diesel’s win in 1989 the greatest if I want to, and bully for the rest of them. How many Caulfield Cup winners do you know that step up from over the mile in the Toorak the week before, […]
I was having a yarn recently with the great Australian writer Andrew Rule of Chopper, Underbelly, Winx, Chance and many other great books fame, and the discussion turned to the topic of the greatest Australian racing writer ever. As my early bids I threw up names like Max Presnell, Bert Lillye, Frank Hardy,Rollo Roylance, the […]
PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – are the enemy of the racing industry. They hate us, and want to shut us down. We’re cruel, wicked torturers they reckon, animal exploiters and speciests of the worst kind. What’s a speciest you ask? A person who believes that humans run the world, not […]
When the New Zealand Racing Integrity Unit was set up in the wake of the Messara report there was great hope that the new, independent (to a degree) body would jump boots and all into the job and start cleaning up the plague of performance enhancing drugs in the sport. On the evidence published to […]
Jockey John Allen stood himself down from riding at Caulfield yesterday and went in to immediate self-isolation awaiting the result of a COVID test he took after becoming aware that he had without knowing visited a Tier 2 site in recent days. It is not Allen’s fault. Tier 2 sites are things like schools and […]
