Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
But I don’t know which one this is. Yeppoonese I think. Does anyone know a translator?
Moods at the Moranbah Workers Club on Friday arvo, completing his preparations for the big one We told you last night about trot trainer D. Graham and co flying over to Vegas a couple of weeks ago to see Shania Twain live in Vegas, but we forgot to tell you about the bloke who couldn’t […]
There is a six race card at Bedourie in outback Queensland today. Bedourie is a town of 122 people out in the arse end of nowhere, just north of Birdsville. Racing Queensland is throwing $76 500 at the meeting in prizemoney alone. The cost of Stewards and ancillary services would bring the cost up close […]
What can you say? Look at me, look at me, look at me? The leftover Alligators want to be left alone. So they race to do an interview with Ben Dorries. My taste in cheerleaders only stretches to abolishing them. And stops at about Mickey. What a pity. The Alligator is a real good horse. […]
South Australian racing authorities have quite rightly introduced a new rule limiting the number of starts a horse is allowed to have in a specified period of time. Except they didn’t. There is no number, and there is no timeframe. The Stewards can just make it up as they go. Isn’t that brilliant? This is […]
It’s true. Gerald Ryan has got his. If you had to paint a picture of a sicko pedo, it would look exactly like this. That’s because it is what it is. A portrait of a drunk who gets his jollies from doing shit things to young men, all for his own perverse pleasure. Sorry, sorry, […]
