Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing Victoria Stewards are informed just prior to the running of race 6 that Alligator Blood, who is due to run in the very next race, has arrived at the Sandown track displaying a skin irritation. We are not told what type of irritation or what caused it. We don’t know who told the Stewards […]
Trainer Frankie Stockdale is a recovering alcoholic. There is no cure for alcoholism. Abstinence is the only answer. Stockdale knows it better than anyone. Two weeks prior to Xmas in 1999 he jumped in his car at 3.30am after an all night and into the morning booze session and drove home, or tried to anyway. […]
Twin Hills (Fri-Sat) I think it’s because I like sex more than somewhat, but whenever I hear the name Twin Hills I think of Maggie’s boobs, and when they run a double header the imaginations starts running away from me if I don’t pull it back quick (oops, gave myself up), so we will concentrate […]
Ever since the closure of Eagle Farm for reconstruction almost a decade ago now, the Doomben race track has been over-used, over-worked, and under-maintained, and it has caused a dramatic change to course proper. Not that long ago Doomben was one of the most resilient turf tracks to in Australia. The course proper raced consistently […]
The former Racing Queensland Chairman Bob Bentley was an absolute clown in my view, for all the reasons described in the 2006 story below, and more. His greatest achievement was putting himself in the QLD Racing Hall of Fame that he’d established just a couple of years before, when he had no claim at all […]
Bob Bentley in a dry gully, where he belonged IN a move that will send shock-waves through the racing industry, the new LNP Government plans to re-appoint Bob Bentley as Chairman of Racing Queensland. Speaking from Dubai where he is attending the Asian Racing Conference, Bentley told letsgohorseracing that he was both ‘surprised’ and ‘delighted’ by the […]
Morven is a small one horse joint of about 200 people, located about an hour’s drive to the east of my Dad’s home town of Charleville, after Roma and Mitchell as you are heading west. They race there about once a year, although God only knows why. It might have been all the go back […]
Since when was quarter horse racing a ‘radical new code of racing’? They were racing 400 metre sprints down out of the chute at Gympie back when Butler and I were kids picking up bottles at the track to get a bank together, less Doyle’s 20% clip of the ticket that he demanded for giving […]
John Lingard is the most under-rated racing writer in Queensland. He is one of the best too. None of the clowns who bag him have ever edited the racing pages at a time when papers actually had reporters, or have covered the swimming at the Olympics or Commonwealth Games, or called a footy match. That’s […]
Good morning One has to wonder how Paul Eriksson could be appointed to the position of CEO of Racing Australia. As a Tasmanian he leaves Tasmanian racing in a disgrace. The Trots hang on to existence by a thread, and the person who is doing the sewing (Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole) would in any other industry […]
