Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Reg Fleming, the greatest trainer there never was Re: Cummings. I think Reg Fleming is a genius. Nigel Blackiston is still battling along, and Leon Corstens could never get the mix right once he departed the kennel. Never thought it had much to do with the Cummings really at all. And I grew up next […]
Sharp ‘N’ Smart is deep in the running for the title of New Zealand’s horse of the year and if his trainer Graeme Rogerson’s winter impressions of him are correct, more elite gongs could await the rising four-year-old in the spring in Melbourne. Rogerson said from New Zealand last week that there are any number […]
What you see above appeared in a story on Racenet yesterday about Chris Waller taking up 20 boxes at Macedon Lodge to prepare his Melbourne Cup hopefuls. Lloyd Williams prepared 3 of his Melbourne Cup winners from the Lodge it says: Efficient, Green Moon and Almandin. That’s news to me and most punters, and I […]
The Asian Racing Report is the best racing publication in the world. It has brilliant writers, and they produce brilliant stories. This from October last year is one of them. In these dark days of cuts to prizemoney in Victoria it tells a story that everyone needs to hear. A second-tier global event or a […]
Who won the last 5 Cups? Who rode them? You have 60 seconds to answer. No Googling. Yeah. See what I mean?
What do reckon this owner of Gold Trip said as it crossed the line in last year’s Melboure Cup? You don’t need to be a lip reader do you? I would say it too if I won the Cup. But if you are a bit slow here’s a clue. It rhymes with duck.
It’s not easy to beat Lloyd Williams. Frank Hudson did. Good bookies never lose, or not in the long run anyway. Not on the book anyway. Cards are different story. He doesn’t know it yet, but I am taking Frank on in a quite probably weekend long game of 7 card stud starting Friday night […]
Good Friday was for centuries the most boring day in history. No newspapers, no races, no footy. That was then, this is now. Now the most boring days are the two between the Derby and the Cup. First you watch the T20 and feel depressed after the Poms humiliate us, then you do your form, […]
Sharp ‘n’ Smart is back. Rogie is going to give him an exhibition gallop at Te Rapa on New Year’s Day. They don’t just give exhibition gallops to any horse at such a famous course. Only top liners like Bonecrusher and Sunline get granted permission for them. And now the Sharp man too. Melbourne will […]
