Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What the hell is going on with this inside training track at the Gold Coast? It’s semi-underwater, after less than half an inch of rain in the past 24 hours. https://www.eldersweather.com.au/history/qld/bundall Is the course proper drainage such that all the water pours over to the inside, or has the training track just been done on […]
The trials on the B Grass track at the Gold Coast this morning have been decimated by scratchings, with 18 of the scheduled 35 runners pulled out. This has left two of the trials on the B Grass with only a single runner in them. I hope their trainers weren’t aiming for a good hit […]
By Trenton Akers 01:52pm • 28 January 2024 The long-awaited review into the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission will kick off on Monday, with a steering committee set to meet for the first time to lay their concerns over the under-pressure organisation bare. Corporate high flyers KPMG have been engaged to handle the review, which is set […]
The International Federation of Horse Racing Authorities has released its list of the top 100 Group 1 races in the world, and we in Australia are well down the list. That’s predominantly because these Europeans who decide the order of merit have a huge bias toward middle distance racing, with no sprint races of the […]
You’d be laughing like Melbourne Merv too if you owned Sharp N Smart and now Just As Sharp too The best run of the weekend on either side of the ditch was at Ellerslie in the $1 million Karaka 3yo Millions, and it came not from the winner Orchestral but rather from a $61 shot […]
Although no-one wished to become a pariah by speaking out about the state of the Ellerslie surface on NZ’s big sales race day, behind the scenes a number of trainers are blowing up big time. It’s the evident inside bias that has them upset. Every winner on the card came from near the rail in the […]
Coming into yesterday’s Randwick meeting Newcastle based trainer Scott Aspery had only won 8 races in the previous 2 1/2 years, and only one in the city. Fortunately that win was in a Midway worth $55 000 to the winner last year. Still and all, it’s been a hard way to eke out a living […]
This is Chad Ormsby, former bull rider and jockey turned trainer of Master Fay, the winner of the 2nd on the card at the Karaka Million race day at Ellerslie yesterday. Ormsby looks exactly like he just stepped out of a Coen Brothers or Quentin Tarantino movie in his mirrored shades and cowboy hat. If […]
NZ Horse of the Year Sharp N Smart has had some issues over the past six months or so, but on the evidence of his 2nd-up run in the Aotearoa Classic yesterday at Auckland, the great horse looks like he may be roaring back to life. Sharp N Smart only finished 6th and was beaten […]
Which trio of prominent Kiwi trainers are currently the subject of a police investigation into a serious incident involving a much younger female stable employee? Are charges likely to follow? If so, will Racing NZ follow the lead of HRNZ in relation to the licensee who is set to face trial next month, or will […]
