Aidan O’Brien appears to believe the average mental age of racing fans is about five. Just who does he think he’s kidding, apart from his mouthpiece at the Racing Post, Deputy Ireland Editor David Jennings, who rates about three. Following Auguste Rodin’s impressive win in the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf, they fed the racing […]
Track Managers Who Hate Punters
Why on earth was the 2nd best track in Australia at Caulfield displaying such an on pace, lanes 1-4 fr0m the rail bias today during a beautiful period of fine weather? It was nuts. So are the modern methods of track managers. As a punter all you want to do other than back winners is […]
Does Someone Have to Die Before the QRIC Get Tough on Dangerous Interference?
What the hell sort of Stewarding is this? Warwick Satherley, the jockey of the horse in red that races around to the lead, clearly came cutting across to the fence when their wasn’t room to do so. By doing this he chopped the rider of the horse in front in half and caused him to […]
Toowoomba Trainers Kicked in the Guts
There are just 5 races programmed for Toowoomba on Saturday night, with the meeting running for just under 3 hours. Surely there is ample time to run another race if one is required, and one certainly is, for the Maiden has 19 acceptances in a maximum capacity field size of only 11, leaving 8 want […]
What Do You Have to Do to Get a Suspension in QLD – Kill Someone?
Take a look at the interference in the straight to Drialle, the heavily backed $1.70 favourite in the cream and green that is 3 back the fence as they round the turn. Drialle’s rider Martin Harley had every right to shoot the gap down the stretch between the leader on the rail and the horse […]
It’s About Time – And I Know Just the Man to Fix It
After a series of cancelled meetings due to problems with the drainage from the course proper, the Cairns Jockey Club has finally advertised for a new full-time track manager. It’s about time. The bloke that they need is Sean Bridges, the former Eagle Farm track manager who got crucified over the failure of the course […]
What’s the Point?
These are the field sizes for the TAB meeting at the Gold Coast on Saturday. What a joke. Race 1: Four Race 2: Four Rave 3: Seven Race 4: Five Race 5: Five Race 6: Seven Race 7: Four 36 starters in 7 races, just over 5 per race. No 3rd place dividend paid in […]
Manny is Off His Rocker – I Can See a Result – Can’t You?
This has to be addressed – the process around photo finishes is clearly not good enough. Jye McNeil reviewed the photo & we fully agree with him , it’s hard to argue that it actually wasn’t a dead heat. In this day & age our industry should be better than just a lap top computer […]
Pride of Jenni is an Angel Powered Superstar
Watching the Champions Mile live on Saturday I thought that Declan Bates had pulled his rival’s pants down, and was cursing the others jocks to the clouds. Then I watched it on replay and checked the secs and realised that Jennie’s wasn’t just a lucky win, it was a run for the ages. The first […]
Mark Purdon’s Big Guns for the Four Group 1’s on Cup Day Draw the Car Park, and His Youngsters Go Terribly at the Trials
The markets for the feature Group 1 races on NZ Cup day in 5 days time have been turned upside down after the dominant favourites for the rich feature races drew terribly at yesterday’s barrier draw. Akuta has blown from odds-on out to $2.20 after landing the horror barrier 15 on the 2nd row in […]