Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Andrew Rule is one person who certainly won’t be on Ben Melham and Jamie Kah’s Christmas card this year, after the pair blew up big time after reading a story about Kah penned by the award winning crime and racing writer that was published yesterday in the Sun Herald (see story below). Melham was the […]
Tasmanian racing is a fiscal basket case. The just released 2023/24 Tasracing annual report reveals that the three codes of racing earn just $34.4 million a year between them, but it costs almost $70 million to keep the game running. That means that the dogs, trots and gallops run circa $36 million in the red […]
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away – Percy Bysshe Shelley Disappeared in the night former QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard has etched his name in QLD racing history by becoming the first leader […]
Here’s a super hard Queensland racing quiz for people as old or older than me. A free year’s subscription goes to anyone who gets 10/10 without cheating. You have to pass a lie detector test to claim it. Good luck. You’ll need it. ————————————————- 1. Kiwi jockey Linda Jones became the first female to ride […]
This is Uncle Sam’s manor. Or it used to be, until he lost the farm. Bid with confidence. Motivated seller, needs the cash. Good lawyers don’t come cheap. Especially the silks. Hey it’s only a house. Jesus was born in a barn. The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
A mustache is A backward hat For your face by Sam Kilkenny, the poet not the punter You find out who your friends are when you fall. Especially when you fall hard. Sam Kilkenny, the punter not the poet, must be learning that right now. A word of advice to the man, borrowed from Henry […]
Tim Williams is 3 back the fence as the film rolls, in the black and white Stonewall Stud colors We’ve written before about how New Zealand driver Tim Williams seems to have an inside run with the RIB Stewards and Adjudicators, both of whom are employed or contracted by a 5 person board, one of […]
This one is straight out of the Ripley’s believe it or not basket. The last race at the Mudgee non-TAB meeting yesterday was the feature event of the day, the Black Nugget Cup. It was set down to be run over 1850m. Somehow the track staff, presumably under the supervision of the starter, placed the […]
At a time when Racing NSW is under fire from all quarters and is an has been referred for consideration of contempt before a State Parliamentary Inquiry, you’d think that great care would be taken in the process for appointing new members to the organization’s board, particularly given the trenchant criticisms (warranted or not) that […]
Further to our story yesterday about one M. Currie trained galloper setting a brutal speed in front that was perfect for it stablemate who came from behind and won, here is the official Stewards report as it relates to the matter. Depth Charge Began awkwardly. Stewards inquired into the tactics adopted on the gelding, specifically […]
