Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How about this for a ride by apprentice Stacey Metcalfe on the winner of the second race at Bordertown today? It might look easy, but it ain’t. That is great skill, brilliant actually. That’s how they rode them when Archer won the Cup.
Dennis Pagan has decided to abandon Johnny Get Angry’s Melbourne Cup campaign. That is sort of wise you would think. After all, last Spring’s surprise Victoria Derby winner Johnny Get Angry has been beaten beaten by an average of 23 lengths at its past two starts. The only question that remains now is this. How […]
Incentivise cannot win the Melbourne Cup. Not because he has 57kg, although that in itself is a huge stop. Not because he is attempting to become the first horse since the turn of the century to win the Caulfield-Melbourne Cups double either. He can’t win the Cup because he won’t get two miles. It’s his […]
Well there goes Incentivise’s chances of winning the Melbourne Cup. 55.5 kilograms for a horse that has won just two Open Company races, they being a weak Group 3 and a strong Group 1 over a mile, which of course is half the distance of the Cup. It an outrageous weight, so far over the […]
“Our sympathies are extended to Coolmore and the Williams family, the owners of Cliffs of Moher, jockey Ryan Moore, trainer Aidan O’Brien and his staff who cared for the horse and are greatly saddened by their loss.” – Jamie Stier 2018 “Our sympathies are extended to the owners of Anthony Van Dyck, trainer Aidan O’Brien […]
Lloyd does it again. Incredible. Aiden O’Brien almost pulled the handicapping theft of the century, but his son Joe pulled his pants down. Great run Tiger Moth regardless. Brilliant ride the winner. This kid McNeil is a gun. What the hell was James McDonald thinking on Finche. He shouldn’t be riding anyway after the foul […]
Have you ever seen a Melbourne Cup winner thrown by a pure sprinter? Yeah of course you have, Vow and Declare last year. So the fact that Anthony Van Dyke is out of the Australian sprinter Believe’n’Succeed, herself a daughter of the crack speedster Exceed and Excel, is not the reason that he can’t win […]
