Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Everyone I talk to wants to tell me that the Rockhampton Jockey Club is broke. The club says something different. Or at least the financial accounts in their annual report do. Are they right, or are the critics? I dunno. I’m not sure the club’s auditors do either. Their opinion is somewhat guarded. And they […]
QLD apprentice Violet Soulsby spent 6 months out of the saddle last year after suffering a horror fall down south at Wagga. Violet resumed riding at just after Xmas, and then didn’t have another mount for a month. She returned with a winner at Thangool a week ago. Then yesterday she went to Bundaberg and […]
The track record for 2080m at Cranbourne stood at 1.55.6 until last night. Then along came the now Jason Grimson trained Kiwi mare Captain’s Mistress and turned it into dust. 1.53.7 she ran, in one of the greatest performances by a female pacer that you could ever hope to see. Champion Australian mare Eye Keep […]
Funny things are happening tonight at the NZ Harness Racing Awards ceremony. First of all someone has put up all the results up on HRNZ website when they are only half way through the presentation. That takes the excitement and intrigue out of things somewhat doesn’t. The buck always stops at the top. Brad Steele […]
What a great call by a fifteen year old kid. Bet you couldn’t do this. I know I cant. This kid Vini Donnelly is a genius. An out of the box superstar, and a real humble one too. Vini will be calling at the Tumbarumba picnic meeting today. If you can, you should get there. […]
COMPULSORY REPORTING OF MAJOR FRACTURES, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AND APPROVAL OF AFFECTED HORSES TO RETURN TO RACING This policy is intended to help identify and manage racehorses that sustain major fractures or undergo major orthopaedic surgery and manage their return to training, galloping, trialling, and racing. Where a horse has sustained a major fracture and/or undergone […]
It was only a trial at the Gold Coast on Tuesday, but gee this 2YO looked good. And with a name like that why wouldn’t he? How gracious of Jay Bellamy was it to name his horse after this website? After all, we named the site after the horse that beat his family’s great champion […]
How many times do starters and barrier attendants in Queensland have to get it wrong about removing pre-race ear muffs until they finally learn. It is not that hard. Black muff are part of the gear and stay on. Red muffs come off as a horse enters the barrier. That’s how it supposed to happen […]
I never saw Sir Tristram race, but I did see his early crop sons Dalmacia, Sovereign Red, Grosvenor and Gurner’s Lane win races like the Epsom, Caulfield Guineas, VRC Derby, and Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, and I was at Rosehill the day when his Brian Mayfield Smith trained, Jim Cassidy ridder Marauding won the Golden […]
John Symons and Sheila Laxon had to fight like hell to get their circa half million dollar share of Knight’s Choice’s winning prizemoney for the Melbourne Cup, after RISA and/or Racing Victoria stuffed up and paid it to their old business partner, who trousered the cash. Fortunately for the blissfully happy couple they followed our […]
