Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I would have bet my life and my wife that the protest in race 4 at Eagle Farm would have been upheld. If I had I wouldn’t be here to write about it, and Maggie would be someone else’s sex slave (lucky them). How the hell did they dismiss that one? The leader veered straight […]
Ottavio Galetta, a hugely successful owner in both horse codes, has passed away age 82. Galetta, an immigrant from Calabria at a young age, first came to prominence as the owner of the great pacer Don’t Retreat, the 1976 Australian Harness Horse of the Year. He later became the owner of the dual Group 1 […]
In a case that has taken an inordinate amount of time to hear, Racing NSW Stewards on Friday disqualified Gosford trainer Greg McFarlane for 2 years and 6 months after his horse Bremel threw a positive swab to EPO in an out of competition test conducted in February 2025. After many delays the trainer finally […]
Archie, Billy and other trainers should be overjoyed about Tanya Parry turning up with her 31 starters for the Isa’s big Thursday Rodeo Race Meeting . Take her horses out and you’re left with 2 × 2 horse races, 2 × 3 horse races , a 4 horse race and a 5 horse race. Yep, […]
Julia Creek trainer Tanya Parry turned out 31 of the 50 runners at yesterday’s Mt Isa race meeting, but her sheer weight of numbers didn’t translate to much success. The only rwo winner on the card that she trained was in the first race, in which she had every horse in the field, and the […]
The President of the Forbes Jockey Club, one Randal Grayson, has been disqualified for 9 months by Racing NSW Stewards for allowing a mare that he owned named Spectrum’s image to starve near to death. Spectrum’s Image was discovered by a vet lying prone on the ground in an emaciated state a body condition score […]
Queensland’s once greatest trainer Ben Currie is back, as of today. The man we call the Toowo0mba Tornado has won his QCAT appeal against the QRIC decision to refuse him a stable hand license. How the regulator ever came to that decision based on the Currie no fault ruling in the End Assembly case we […]
Last week after its track and Australian record breaking win at Fannie Bay we were told that after the weekend’s Palmerston Sprint the connections of the flying dirt track galloper Balastier would be seeking an invitation to Dubai to take on the world’s best on the dirt in one of the desert nation’s ultra-rich races. […]
I only ever rode Octagonal once …. Yes we all remember that Shane It was in the Victoria Derby in 1995, when you got trapped on the inner, extracted the Big O from the pocket far too late, lost the great horse 2 or 3 lengths in the process, and got as a result was […]
QLD apprentice jockey Jai Williams is a serial offender when it comes to breached of the whip rule. Only last week he got done twice at one meeting for breaking the rules and was outed for 10 days, a sentence that could have been a whole lot longer had the Stewards not allowed him to […]
