Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Detente – the easing of hostility or strained relations The Australian Turf Club and Racing NSW seem to have struck some form of detente. Racing NSW have agreed to continue to provide the ATC with discretionary funding over and above the club’s guaranteed TB profit distributions to pay for the big races over the rest of the Autumn carnival. In return […]
Seminal QLD racing writer Matt Nicholls has for weeks been calling for the Queensland racing authorities to put measures in place to assist racing participants during the current fuel price crisis. Matt’s entreaties make sense. QLD trainers travel further than any others in the country to get to race meetings, and the cost burdens on […]
So V’landys as usual leads the charge, and puts up $3 million to help NSW racing participants ride out the knock on effects of D. Trump’s war that isn’t. Racing Victoria do what is always does and falls in behind. Well sort of, but not really, because it’s been badly managed for years and doesn’t […]
No one is totally bad. Every dog has a heart. If you look real close you will see. Art is just like racing. Something that only genius’s can conquer. Chris Waller take a bow. Ciaron Maher and Maggie too.
I am away from home, and thus don’t have my usual selections of racing channels, so am stuck watching 71. That means I have to cop Lizzie Jelfs. Personally I would rather cut my arm off. Lizzie starts launching into a monologue about how only the very greats of racing win back to back Australian […]
I have known plenty of blokes in my time who have gone to a massage parlor after a win at the races. But I have never known one who went to the track to get a massage. Until now. The VRC seem to have extended the idea of a day at the races to include […]
Earlier in the week Racing NSW used their contingency fund to implement starter payments for owners and trainers of horses to offset their increased costs due to the rapidly rising cost of petrol. Today it is the low paid workers in racing’s turn and work at least 8 hours a week will receive $100 a […]
Those who knock Peter V’Landys are imbeciles in my opinion, and I mean that with the greatest of respect. Just look at what he has done here. The price of fuel is going through the roof, trainers can’t sleep at night worried that they are f**ked, owners are thinking to themselves “Sh*t, how am I […]
Racing Queensland confirms that a back-up race meeting has been programmed for the Polytrack at Sunshine Coast Turf Club on Sunday, March 22, in the event the club’s race meeting on its course proper on the day is unable to proceed. In the event there is a deluge of rain which causes the course […]
Leap To Fame’s popular owner Kevin Seymour AM has made number 220 on the Australian rich list announced today in the national newspaper. He still hasn’t cracked the billion though which is disappointing. Still and all you couldn’t be unhappy with $849 million and the greatest champion in Australian harness racing history, could you? Some […]
