Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Here is today’s weather forecast as at 4.00am. According to the meteorologist’s predictions we might be in for a storm come start time, which if true would cruel dry track specialists like Without A Fight and bring a host of the other imports into contention. I wouldn’t worry too much about the bums from the […]
Every so called expert with a soapbox is ranting and raving about this horse and that horse having great draws in the Cup, and others chances being harmed because they’ve drawn wide. It’s a load of bollocks. These people don’t have a clue what they are talking about. Here are the facts. 12 out of the […]
What a disgrace the weak-gutted Victorian Racing Club truly are. Fancy being so spooked by the small fringe group of loony anti-racing activists that they would deny racing fans and potential fans, not to mention all the prospective fans out there, the opportunity to go into the city and celebrate the Spring Carnival by cancelling […]
The news out of New Zealand is that, as we predicted on the weekend, Sharp ‘N’ Smart’s Melbourne Spring campaign is over. Owner Merv Butterworth has confirmed that while a full physical inspection of the star horse on Monday revealed no physical abnormalities or injuries, comprehensive blood tests have revealed that the NZ Horse of […]
With only a few possible exceptions, the Cup entrants this year appear pretty well weighted all round. Gold Trip has been given the grandstand to carry but deserves it. On the strength – or more correctly, weakness – of his two thrashings in the All Star Mile and the Queen Elizabeth in the Autumn at […]
This is Sharp ‘N’ Smart galloping with a stablemate between races at Te Rapa on Saturday. He ran sub 36 seconds for his last 600, going at a hand canter. Goodness, gracious me. How good does Merv’s superstar look at the start of his road to the Melbourne Spring Carnival? I don’t think there has […]
The handicaps for the Cairns Cup were released yesterday, and baby it’s game on, Namazu has been given 61kg, and he deserves it too, for this Ricky Vale trained horse that we call Big Zu after Kostya and Tim is brilliant, far better than the city slickers in the south could ever imagine. This is […]
Flash … Aah! Winner of, the Cairns Cup! I was wrong. Sort of. I said that Super Heroes can carry the grandstand. They can. But not 2nd, even with an absolute pearler of a ride by Ash Butler. Flash Aah got beaten a short half head, by a horse that it gave 10 kilos to. […]
Racing clubs in Victoria, New South Wales and Hong Kong are wooing Horse of the Year-in-waiting Sharp ’N’ Smart as trainers Graeme and Debbie Rogerson map out a multi-million dollar campaign aimed at the Melbourne Cup. Sharp ’N’ Smart earned $3 million as a three-year-old, a tally which should see him voted the country’s top […]
The mail from across the ditch is that the all conquering 9 times Group 1 winning Kiwi rider Ryan Elliott is squarely in the frame to ride the soon to be 4YO sensation Sharp N Smart throughout his Australian assignments in the spring. Unless Elliott makes an urgent booking to spend a week with the […]
