Bettors Delight and the Black Stallion – Champions Often Look the Same
Bettor’s Delight is the magnificent looking stallion at the top. The Black Stallion is the superb one below. Champions often look the same.
A Prediction About the Future of Australian Wagering (First Published 23 February 2022)
There are all sorts of rumours floating around about what the Australian race wagering landscape might look like in two years time, but it is hard to get a straight bead on it because no-one who knows anything will talk about it, almost certainly for commercial and/or regulatory reasons. So we will take a non-informed […]
Where is the Margin For the Outside Horse Here?
It is very, very difficult to see how the outside horse Wolfy could have won this race at Caulfield yesterday. Sure camera angles can be deceiving, but how is that not the inside horse Furious’nose that hit the line first here? Punters are blowing up all over the country about the judge’s decision. So they […]
Tasmanian Racing Get Into a Blue About Dogs
So What Are the QRIC Going to Do to Keep the Alleged Stabbing Victim and the Witnesses Safe?
We didn’t want to write it for legal reasons last week when we broke the story, but everyone now knows that it is jockey Sariah Champkin who has been charged with one count of assault occasioning bodily harm on a fellow licensee and another of willful damage by Queensland Police following the alleged stabbing incident […]
The Protostar is Set to Turn QLD Harness Racing On Its Head
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 […]
Elton Asks the Question About How a Rider Was Allowed to Fail to Weigh In
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 […]
Official Reports Surely Should Be True
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 […]
Why Are the QRIC Refusing to Intervene to Keep the Alleged Victim of a Serious Violent Offence Safe From Harm?
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 […]
Are Tabcorp Kidding?
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 […]