Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
More than 8 is the obvious answer. On Friday at Birdsville a six start maiden galloper named Secret Tears, who had never finished closer than 6th a race before, ran true to form and was beaten 28 lengths into ninth place in a maiden. The very next day it was backed from $26 into $12 […]
Eight QRIC Stewards trekked up to Birdsville on the weekend for the Cup meeting, including it appears the Chief Steward Josh Adams. It was a totally unnecessary show of force designed to alleviate the QRIC’s embarrassment about the fact that this website uncovered the jigger scandal before last year’s big race and the QRIC didn’t, […]
Well we picked Olentia as the lay of the day yesterday and it got beat, but the one we picked to win got beat too so we can hardly call it a success. You wouldn’t call Kerrin Mcevoy’s ride on the beaten favourite a success either. Far from it in fact. That ride was a […]
Where else in the world does a Cadet Steward get t0 chair the panel at a professional race meeting? It’s bit like putting a 2nd year apprentice plumber in charge of the council water supply, or appointing a 3rd year apprentice chippie to project manage the construction of a tall tower. In other words its […]
Tims a Trooper is an emergency in The Eureka. He’s the stablemate of the favourite Leap To Fame. In the past 2 hours he has been the medium of what looks to be the greatest plunge in Australian harness racing history. Tim has firmed from $51 into $3.90 on TAB fixed price to win the […]
The old Tramway workshop at Randwick, which the race is named after Chris Waller mare Olentia is the red hot $2.25 favourite to win the Tramway at Rosehill on Saturday, but it’s a totally crazy price, and as good was she is, I very much doubt that Waller’s little star girl can knock off the […]
This is Sharp ‘N’ Smart galloping with a stablemate between races at Te Rapa on Saturday. He ran sub 36 seconds for his last 600, going at a hand canter. Goodness, gracious me. How good does Merv’s superstar look at the start of his road to the Melbourne Spring Carnival? I don’t think there has […]
Bloody hell. Fab’s Cowboy got beaten again at Mt Isa yesterday. Not by much – only about a half length – but it was enough to leave him stranded still on 49 wins. He’s running out of time here old Fab. He is 12 now, and mandatory retirement rules mean that he’s finished on the […]
As you can see above, the QRIC Stewards in charge of the Cairns Cup meeting yesterday were convinced that the last race on the card was the Lightning. It wasn’t. The Lightning was a 950m open class dash run as race 8. Race 10 was a Class 6 run over 1250m. They couldn’t even get […]
What on earth was jockey Adrian Layt thinking aboard Flash Aah in the Cairns Cup yesterday? He wasn’t is my guess, he just did what very average jockeys do, which is not think at all. Up until about the 500 metre mark Layt had ridden Flash perfectly. He’d planted himself on the hot fave Namazu’s […]
