Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
South Australian racing has descended from a much-troubled tragedy into an utter farce. The year is only 19 days old, and already we’ve seen: Three Port Lincoln race meetings called off in a row A Murray Bridge race meeting first rescheduled to a ridiculously late mid afternoon time slot ‘reasons of animal welfare’ and to […]
See the horse that I have circled? Do you see it wearing any blinkers? If you do, take your own off. There aren’t any. He is not wearing blinkers at all. Which creates a bit of a problem. Why? Because the official racing Queensland form guide and results says that he is. So does RISA, […]
Brown Rice with some rather good riders that he trained, back in the days when he was still young and beautiful Within literally minutes of publishing our exclusive story breaking the news of RJW Johnson’s retirement from the fitness and weight reduction for jockeys game we began getting deluged with messages from tearful readers who […]
It’s official. Ronald James William Johnson – aka RJ, the jockey fitness guru also known as the Brown Rice Man – has officially retired. For the seventeenth time. The news has a come as a great shock to his close friends Wayne Gannon and Gary Nolan, who have spent the night in lockdown attempting to […]
Determined to avoid the hottest part of the day, Racing SA has pushed back the starting time of Saturday’s meeting at Murray Bridge by three hours. With a top temperature of 42 degrees forecast at 1.30pm and then a cool change taking effect in the evening, the first race has been moved from 12.17pm to […]
It’s not often we agree with Robbie Waterhouse, because in our previous relationship with him we formed the view that he was a tight arse, manipulating K. Hunt who only wanted to know you if there was something in it for him, and if you kissed his arse like the smart arse ‘expert’ Twitter commentator […]
Former trailblazing jockey and now career development officer for Racing SA Clare Lindop offers her opinion on Racenet that our sport has a real problem with the lack of young men who are seeking to become apprentice jockeys and make it their profession. I totally agree with what Clare says, but sadly she doesn’t look […]
There is no doubt that Spritualised is an extremely talented a horse, a potential topliner one day perhaps. But three weeks ago it ran last in a race at Eagle Farm beaten by 20 lengths. Rider James Orman told Stewards that he thought it had choked down, which is strange because Orman was looking at […]
What a wonderful gesture of mate ship and respect is by Will Hulbert to train his sadly lost mate’s horses for free and give the prizemoney to his widow and kids. I didn’t know the bloke, but it sounds like the thing Dave Garrett’s would have done. Praise doesn’t get any bigger than that. My […]
Well, you could say you’re PeterSay you’re PaulDon’t put me up on your bedroom wallCall me king of the mountain They ran the much vaunted $750 000 King of the Mountain slot race at Toowoomba last night, For all it was worth they might as well just have run it in some wheat farmer’s back […]
