Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Just listen to this will you? The Queensland Racing Minister Grace Grace is trying to tell us that Chareville is a world class track. What the hell would she know? Grace had never even been to the races until we was appointed as Minister, and now suddenly she is an expert on track surfaces and […]
Lou from Longreach provides us with the latest on the abandonment of the last 2 races at Charleville on Saturday. Please note that despite all the other Stewards reports from the weekend being up, at present there is no report for Charleville. As Gomer Pyle used to say, surprise surprise surprise. I have heard from […]
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 […]
