Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Frank Pullicino is down on the papers as the trainer of nine horses who were supposed to run at today’s meeting at Globe Derby. He’s not. The poor bastard is crippled by osteoarthritis, and can hardly walk, let alone train. Gaita trains them. All nine have been scratched by the Stewards this morning, about 3 […]
If wind turbulence caused Gaita’s horse to gallop …. Then why are the leaves in the tree standing stone still?
So watch this. Gaita Pullicino – a very smart woman indeed when it comes to a dollar and the trots – is driving the leader. It’s been backed for a stack, but it gallops on the turn. It’s driver is supposed to take it to either the inside or the outside of the track, but […]
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 […]
Two years ago the long time harness racing lover, administrator, owner, breeder and benefactor Kevin Seymour AM, one of the giants of the Queensland and Australian sport, offered the SA Harness Racing Club that runs the famous Globe Derby course and club a life line to save them from crippling debt. Seymour extended the club […]
What you see above is taken from the auditor’s report into it’s examination of Globe Derby’s finances last year, which in accounting terms ran from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022. The Auditor said that cash was a significant source of income for the club. But the club didn’t cough up with the receipts […]
How do the committee of Globe Derby come to the conclusion that the club can pay its debts as they fall due? Globe Derby owes almost $4.5 m It has just under $1.8 million to its name, if you believe the Directors of the club. I don’t. Suspend disbelief and assume that they are telling […]
We have received the other bits of the Globe Derby Annual Report, and we were spot on. They are insolvent, or all but. You can read as well I can. K. Seymour’s loan agreement expires in February. Unless Seymour gives the club an extension – and I can’t think of any reason that he should, […]
We’ve managed to get a partial copy of the Globe Derby (SAHRC) annual report, and the picture is dire. The club has lost more than $800 000 in the past year. That takes it losses over the last 2 years to almost a million dollars. It has just under $1.8 million in cash, but owes […]
I am sure that this gallop at the start by the $1.20 favourite Take My Wallet in the 2nd race at Globe Derby on Monday was nt a piss take by the connections. Plain bad luck it was, I’m sure. Just as I am sure that the horse coming to the Aaron Bain stable with […]
