Archie Re Bobo and Lacey on the phone in the jockeys lounge. What were they watching? Old episode or Mother and Son? Or Bad Boy Bubby? Arnie from Atherton
Chalk, Cheese and Absolute Crackers – These Brothers Are Made For TV
These blokes are brothers. Not that you would know it, if you didn’t. This pair are racing men, livestock auctioneers, experts on the price of beef, and cool as cat characters to boot. They should have their own TV show. It would be a top rater. Chalk, Cheese and Absolute Crackers they could call it. […]
A Story Goes With It – (A Long Read About the Romance of Racing That Modern Authorities Don’t Understand))
By Damon Runyon ONE night I am in a gambling joint in Miami watching the crap game and thinking what a nice thing it is, indeed, to be able to shoot craps without having to worry about losing your potatoes. Many of the high shots from New York and Detroit and St. Louis and other […]
Ciaron Maher Gets the Rub of the Green
Is Ciaron Maher the luckiest trainer in NSW? Or the most favoured? Many this week are asking the question after Maher was granted an exclusive lease from Racing NSW on the 125 box former Grand Lodge stables at Warwick Farm following its $20 million purchase by the racing regulator. This latest stroke of good fortunes […]
Magical Words From the Great Racing Man of Australian Literature Gerald Murnane AO
This is an excerpt from Gerald Murnane AO’s wonderful book Something For The Pain. The very last chapter is titled, Lord Pilate and Bill Coffey. You can almost feel the pain. They don’t write like this anymore. Gerald talks about Bill Coffey a timber worker from New Zealand with a love for training a small […]
A Great Australian Honored
Today the great Australian writer Gerald Murnane was awarded an AO for services to literature and teaching. Gerald has been in the first 2 lines of betting for the Nobel Prize for Literature for what seems an extraordinary run. He is revered internationally by his peers, and his otherworldly writing has been profiled in The New […]
Mark Latham on Mental Health in Racing
I am no fan of Mark Latham, in fact quite the opposite. But everyone gets it right sometimes. And Latham has done here.
The NSW Stewards Have Let These Two Apprentices Down – And the Punters Too
Liberty Smith is 29 years old but has only been riding for 5 months. In that short time she has ridden 22 winners from 147 rides, at a strike rate of 15%. Hollie Hull is 26 years old and has been riding for 4 years. In that time she has has 215 mounts and booted […]
How Was This Horse Not Declared a Non-Runner?
The horse I am pointing at in the photo at the top is Churpel, and the race is the 1st at Scone on Sunday. You can see clearly that Churpel’s inside barrier has opened before the other horses gates flew, but it is why that is the issue. Have a look at the video below. […]
EXCLUSIVE – Major Cuts to Tasmanian Racing Coming
The whispers out of the Tasmanian bunker are that big cuts are coming to the racing calendar for the coming year that will see the number of race meetings in all codes slashed due to financial pressures being experienced by the peak body Tasracing. We are told that 4 thoroughbred race meetings, 10 harness racing […]