Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
James McDonald What a world-class ride on the winner by J-Mac. An absolute pearler. This bloke is the best jockey in the nation bar none. Zac Purton Zac Purton isn’t. Hong Kong’s leading rider’s steer on Fangirl was an absolute shocker. Purton rode for luck and took the odds to nothing by running Waller’s star […]
Country racing people out west are up in arms about the cancellation of the Isisford race meeting today and the abandonment of the last two races on the card at Charleville, and not without good cause. Our western correspondent Lou from Longreach explains the situation best. Cox Plate Day is one of those great race […]
Jim Murdoch QC – the Magic Man – is a lovely bloke and as a barrister is renowned for winning the big cases, but the hobby racehorse trainer in his spare time isn’t renowned for landing plunges like Henry Davis who used to train at Deagon once too was. So it was a huge surprise […]
Quite staggering scenes at Carlisle! This gentleman thankfully was OK! pic.twitter.com/Et8rjJCmXt — ODDSbible Racing (@ODDSbibleRacing) October 26, 2023 What a balls up this was, one that could quite easily have resulted in serious injury or death. Fortunately it didn’t, but there for the grace of God. UK jumps racing needs to seriously review its safety […]
A special Melbourne Cup fund-raiser for Katie Cox is being held at Addington Raceway on Tuesday, November 7. The talented Canterbury-based trainer-driver has recently been diagnosed with an aggressive form of lung cancer. Her plight has prompted a massive outpouring of support from within the harness racing community, with a trust already set up to […]
Brad Stewart with his dad Neville Former top flight jockey Brad Stewart’s first winner Masterplan was very special to him, for more reasons than one. Masterplan was bred by Stewart and his family out of a mare named Western Desert that his dad Neville used to own and train. Western Desert is also the mother […]
In one of those stories that sound too strange to be true, a range of imported Kiwi produced horse feed sold by Hygain called Fiber Fresh has been recalled from the shelves after dead hedgehogs were found in the product. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ordered the feed to be taken off […]
Irish trainer Joseph O’Brien made a name for himself in Australia by slipping Northern Hemisphere bred 3YO Rekindling into the Melbourne Cup light with 51.5kg and winning it. Is he about to do it again today with the bottom weight Valiant King in the Caulfield Cup? This one has snuck into the Cup with the […]
Jason Bullard, through his company Empire Racing Stables, was once Minnesota’s leading racehorse owners, and often in the headlines. From 2016 when he burst onto the scene until 2o21 Bullard – a regular big buyer at the sales who was feted by the racing authorities – owned horses won 147 races from 734 starts for […]
The word out of Hong Kong is that the CEO of the jockey club Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, who we wrote about the other day, is on a massive all inclusive annual salary package of circa $40 million HK. When converted to Australian money that equates to $8 million bucks a year. It seems an incredible sum […]
