Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Nez Zealand’s new $55 million track at Ellerslie is an unmitigated disaster. That has been evident from opening day in January, and it just looks to be getting worse after yesterday’s meeting had to be abandoned due to safety concerns after only 6 races had been run, making it the 2nd meeting in a row […]
A number of Queensland jockeys are known to be very upset about the late cancellation of the meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, in circumstances where the weather forecast showed very early in the day that increasingly heavy rainfall would almost certainly render the troubled track at Caloundra unsafe to race. It has been raining […]
The QRIC Stewards pre-race swabbed just 6 runners on the 9 race card at Eagle Farm yesterday, and swabbed only the winner after each race and no other horse. That’s a total of 15 swabs taken all up, at a race meeting carrying prizemoney of $895 000. Rockhampton hosted a 12 race card on Thursday, […]
This is the head on Steward’s footage of the final stages of yesterday’s Frank Packer Plate at Randwick.. The outside horse won by 0.1 lengths, which is a nose in my book and a short-half head in Darren Flindell’s. Either way, it’s a bee’s dick. The outside horse came in a smidgen and they scraped […]
TIMELINE 28 Nov 2023 Murrihy report delivered to the Tasmanian Government. Findings of welfare neglect, race fixing and wholesale doping are made against Ben Yole, Tim Yole, Mitch Ford and Nathan Ford. These remain secret for the next 2 months. 31 Jan 2024 Murrihy Report released publicly. The industry and the public are in uproar. […]
Cocaine use appears to have been rife among those attending the Grand National, a Telegraph Sport investigation into racing’s “Peaky Blinders” drugs problem has found. The class-A substance was present in dozens of toilet cubicles examined during this year’s festival, despite organisers declaring beforehand anyone carrying illegal drugs would be denied entry to Aintree. The apparent scale of cocaine use […]
It is 7pm on Grand National day at Aintree and I am Maximus has long since galloped to victory in the 176th edition of the world’s greatest steeplechase. Yet, time is only now being called on the party in the racecourse’s Festival Zone for those not to have had their fill of one of the […]
Master Jamie is a very smart galloper from Central QLD who has won 18 of his 51 career starts and more than a million dollars in prizemoney. He will need to be good if he wants to add to the tally at Callaghan Park on Thursday. 67.5 kilograms the horse has to carry with the […]
Sailor’s Rum was purchased at the recent Inglis March online auction for $37 500. He is being sold in 1/40th shares worth $1525 each by One Syndications. That values the worth of the horse as $61 000, which leaves not a bad profit marging for the syndicator. Not quite as good as the yearling filly […]
Today’s Kilcoy race meeting has been abandoned, in a period of brilliant sunshine. The word is that the track hasn’t however been Puckeridged, but rather that the club has Puckeridged it themselves. We are told that machinery was driven across the track during recent remedial works in a way that damaged the course proper, and […]
