Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing QLD has shown some long needed common sense in making changes to future programming by reallocating the semi-useless 4th Saturday afternoon TAB meetings to far more turnover friendly spots during the week. For far too long now RQ has persisted in running a TAB meeting at far flung minor tracks that no punter is […]
How did the Betfair Exchange react to Winx's 2018 Turnbull Stakes in-play? Watch from start to finish, you might be surprised… 📉📈 pic.twitter.com/Weabb0uGO1 — Betfair Australia (@Betfair_Aus) October 6, 2023 She was some sort of horse Winx, the greatest that any of us alive today have ever seen. This win in the 2018 Turnbull Stakes […]
Owner Merv Butterworth’s wretched spring continues, with the news on Copy That after his scans not good. Over to Barry Lichter from the stable for the report. Copy That has just arrived home at Lincoln Farms in Pukekohe, his racing future guarded. Only after the next six weeks will it become more apparent whether the […]
Townsville based trainers are up in arms at being told without notice this week that the training track at Cluden Park is being closed down forthwith for repairs and reconstruction work, leaving around 160 horses without a surface to be worked or prepared on. The word is that during the close down the trainers have […]
We have made a new discovery. On the 1st of April 2022 a contract with a value of $384 100 was awarded to a Mango Hill (near Caboolture) based company named Project Pumps and Irrigation for the supply of irrigation materials to the Central Warrego Race Club, which is the Charleville club. No-one has mentioned […]
Have you ever seen anything like this?! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/GK6MtO7Aip — At The Races (@AtTheRaces) October 1, 2023 You see some bizarre things on race tracks. This is one of them. Watch the leader.
Australia’s weakness in the staying ranks has long been known, but it is getting worse by the day, as yesterday’s results in the G1 Metropolitan showed. Only 4 of the 15 runners in the race were bred here. They finished 5th, 11th, 12th and 13th. Each of these Aussie breds was born of a European, […]
The spring carnival hopes of NZ Horse of the Year Sharp ‘N’ Smart – who conquered Imperatriz to win that title – look to be in tatters after his inglorious run yesterday afternoon at Hastings to finish last in the Group 1 Arrowfield Stud Plate. It was an absolutely atrocious performance from the triple Group […]
How good are Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott going right now? Superb is the answer. They absolutely dominated yesterday at Randwick, with wins in a Listed, a Group 3 and two Group 1, taking home about $2 million in earnings for their connections. If that wasn’t impressive enough, in the 2yo races – which are […]
How the hell can you go around perpetrating totally unnecessary violence on a horse – brutality even – on a horse and only get a $1000 fine for it? As you will remember Central QLD trainer Tim Cook did this above to a horse a few months ago. “Whack!” a backhander to the head. The […]
