Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Catch Me Out had raced twice before yesterday. Those runs were in Maidens at Scone and Hawkesbury. It ran last and was beaten almost 14 lengths at Scone, and finished 2nd last beaten nearly 13 lengths at the Hawkes. Those runs followed on from 2 trials at Newcastle where it had run last 12.44 lengths […]
Question time in WA Parliament, 1988 Australian Drivers Championship Who decided to give Tassie the hosting rights for the Australian Drivers Championship ? Wasn’t that Harness Racing Australia? Isn’t their decision an endorsement of TasRacings management of harness racing in the state? Or should that be mismanagement? I guess it’s no surprise given that the […]
One of the more interesting matters coming out of Randwick yesterday was the scratching of three James Cummings trained 2yo’s from the first race, leaving it with a field of just 7, a number that it is well known has a substantial negative effect on wagering turnover. It turned out that none of the trio […]
Mark Zahra’s decision to serve the 7-meeting suspension handed to him for breaking the whip rules in the Caulfield Cup between Cox Plate and Derby Day, allowing him to ride at both, simply goes to illustrate how bloody stupid the Australian suspension rules truly are. Now those who can count will realise that there are […]
SYDNEY Race 6 – Dashing Legend Joe Prides horse carries the grandstand with 61kg here, but with a rating of 85 against horses predominantly in their 70’s and 60’s he deserves the weight and it shouldn’t trouble him hugely. Dashing Legend ran some great races last prep in group affairs against much better opposition than […]
How strange it is that the state’s Chief Steward Josh Adams had to fly 1000km north from Brisbane yesterday to fill a spot on the somewhat bereft of experience Stewards panel for the Mackay race meeting. On face value it doesn’t appear to be the best use of scarce resources at the QRIC which ran […]
Gold Trip will have to rewrite history if he is to carry 58.5kb to win the Caulfield Cup on Saturday, for no horse in the modern metric age has ever lumped that much to victory in the time honoured race. Since the weight scale switched from stone and pounds to kilos in 1972 the highest […]
Hope springs eternal in the human breast they say, and it seems to have here. Why on earth would the Sears camp want to even contemplate pushing on to the Golden Rose with their stable star Yellow Brick after his inglorious performance in the Silver Eagle, when he got eased up and tailed out in […]
The Culprit! #Griff pic.twitter.com/Xql1gIAfOF — Ben melham (@BMelham) October 16, 2023 Was the man on the ladder to blame for Griff ducking out near the line in the Caulfield Guineas and costing Ben Melham a 10 meeting suspension? Melham – who posted the picture on Twitter – certainly seems to think so, and it makes […]
On a day of all round excitement and intrigue yesterday at Randwick, one of the most interesting things to see was the appearance of the recently retired former Hong Kong chief steward Kim Kelly on the panel for the day headed by his former deputy Steve Railton. The vastly experienced and hugely respected Kelly, who […]
