Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How great a concept is the Protostar? It’s a race for 2YO’s worth half a million dollars run during the QLD winter carnival. That money is more than double the stakes that 2YO’s can race for anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere, making it a massive target for trainers all around Australia and New Zealand, and […]
Archie, Attached is an article written by racecaller/journalist Tony McMahon. It is checked and correct. Now I agree the responsibility to weigh in falls on the jockey. However, what were Stewards doing? The chairman of the meeting was 22yo Hayden Gillett. Gillett is still listed on the QRIC staff chart as a cadet (and was […]
What a joke it was at the Barcaldine Races. After the first race jockey A Butler took over 10 minutes to return to scale then weighed in hunched over on scales. He was completely exhausted. Despite that, Butler was then allowed to weigh out for the second race. It was only when the horses were […]
The mail out of Tabletop Mountain is that the racing licensee who is alleged to have stabbed a fellow participant in the back with a pair of scissors during a dispute at a property across the road from Clifford Park on Thursday and it is claimed threatened to slit her throat was arrested by police […]
See how the TAB has put the barrier for each of the runners in Monday’s Adelaide Cup in brackets next to their names? Notice how they all miraculously coincide with the saddlecloth being sported by each horse? What are the odds of that happening in a 17 horse race? 20 922 789 888 000 to […]
The rumor mill is running hard and fast about a serious incident of assault across the road from Clifford Park yesterday involving two female jockeys, one a current QLD apprentice who was working for Paul Wallace, the other a former rider who now works for the Currie stable. Details of how and why an altercation […]
• The big picture. The latest confirmed global figures from multiple sources up to the end of 2021 for the 62 countries breeding Thoroughbreds reveal 84,213 foals were registered that year, a decrease of 32% from a peak of 123,568 in 2005. • North America’s foal crop, the largest numerically worldwide, has been declining for […]
Story by Will Jones, author of the seminal racing tome The Black Horse is Dying, and much appreciated and loved friend of and international correspondent for this site Coolmore Stud is, naturally, the biggest draw on the Irish Stallion Trail, a golden two day opportunity every January for the last ten years for studs around […]
Slipping effortlessly from Churchill to George Bernard Shaw, Byrne waxed lyrical that it’s not always going to be dark at 5 o’clock. Try telling that to the breeders who were at Goffs Sales last November and couldn’t even get a bid of E10,000 on a foal by Saxon Warrior who stood at a E35,000 fee. […]
We are told on reliable advice that a number of small-time trainers who have operated out of Deagon for years have been contacted by Matt Rudolph, the Executive General Manager of Racing at the Brisbane Racing Club (BRC), who has told them that they are not wanted at the training facility any longer as they […]
