If You Were on the Leader and Didn’t Cry, Then You’re a Better Person Than Me
This is an absolutely terrible watch pic.twitter.com/SWTsGLDaqG — Archie Brookes (@brookesbldstck) September 24, 2023
The QLD Racing Award Winners Look Easy Picks
2023 TAB Thoroughbred Awards Finalists Queensland Horse of the Year Kovalica Skirt The Law Uncommon James Tip: Uncommon James George Moore Queensland Jockey of the Year Ryan Maloney James Orman Ben Thompson Ryan Wiggins Tip: James Orman Ken Russell Queensland Apprentice of the Year Angela Jones Emily Lang Jaden Lloyd Bailey Wheeler Tip: Angela Jones […]
The Most Handsome Racing Writer in the World Returns From Injury
Sort of anyway. We might be a little slow on the trigger for a few more days. It hurts to think too hard at the moment. She’ll be right though. We ain’t dead yet. Stop laughing you buggers. One day it might happen to you too. God forbid that. All I can say is poor […]
Who Bill Vlahos Says He Was, What He Did, and How He Did It
Bill Vlahos is probably the biggest racing scammer in Australian history. He stole almost $18 million from investors in his so-said punting syndicate. I say so said because Vlahos never punted at all. The whole thing was a lie. It was a Ponzi scheme. Vlahos made it all up. A Ponzi scheme is an investment […]
It’s a Small World – One in Which You Should Avoid Walking Around Wearing Red Hats, Carrying Gucci Bags and Making Threats Against People You Don’t Know
See the bloke circled in red? Shane Wirth. He was a local lad who played for Norths with my mate’s brother. Later on he went to Banyo and Sandgate High Schools, probably getting expelled from one to end up at the other, as kids from our side of town used to do back then. It […]
Are Equine Vets Failing in Their Duty to Horse Owners? – Wayne From Wangaratta Asks the Question
Don’t be stupid Wangarattians, he’s a bloody good race caller Hi Archie There is an issue about equine vets that I would like to raise. I can tell you from decades of experience that the vets don’t positively identify horses on ambulatory calls to stables or studs, and in many cases not even on their […]
Feathers and the Cockroaches
Race caller David ‘Feathers’ Fowler has long been a devotee of Gino’s Italian restaurant at Ascot. You see him there most Sunday nights with papers all over his table as he prepared his Monday morning Press Room show for broadcast to virtually no-one other than dinosaurs of the racing scene like himself, and sometimes you […]
Grimson Appeal Live – Arise King Kenny, Dragon Slayer
Copley continues the slaying of Magic and Jill. Then the slaughter finishes. King Kenny is asked by the chair if he has any more questions. He looks at the Magic Man and smiles, and says not at this stage with a grin. Murdoch tries to pull himself and his client out of the swirling vortex […]
Grimson Appeal Live – The Champ is Getting Pummelled – So is His Client Jill
They play the video, It is as clear as day that Jill comes racing in and king hits Russo from behind while he is being held by a security guard. Boom. Straight right. Some say Grimson is a hard man. Bullshit I say. Every hard man I know would have knocked Russo into Disneyland if […]
Grimson Appeal Live – Kenny Kills the KC
Murdoch KC is struggling now. He has submitted that a fine is appropriate and has been shot down. Desperate and drowning, he throws up an inference that its the trot clubs fault for letting people piss up for hours after the race. Yeah good Jim. Then he compares and contrasts Jill’s king hit on Russo […]