Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
For some unknown and to the best of my knowledge unannounced reason the 2 Saturday TAB race meetings at the Gold Coast following the Magic Millions meeting on the 13th of January have been cancelled. Why? Is there a problem with the new track? Someday soon we may find out.
The Christmas Cup on Saturday night was a most curious affair, a very odd one indeed. To me it looked for the world like a set up for the winner. That horse was Alta Revelry, which was smashed late in the betting from $15.00 into $8.50. It was driven by Pete ‘Noddy’ McMullen. The horse […]
As you can see from the official steward’s report above, the QLD stipes dismissed the protest 2nd against 1st in the 4th race at Doomben on Wednesday. They would have to be kidding wouldn’t they? The margin was a long head. The winner was the horse in the purple in the replays below, the runner-up […]
This is a media release issued by the QRIC yesterday.It is a well meaning and much needed initiative, but utterly clueless. Here is why, from someone who has a first hand clue about mental health struggles. The release is in normal font, this author’s comments are in italics. In recent times, there has been growing […]
There is serious mail sweeping the race tracks that the dream training partnership between Ciaron Maher and David Eustace may soon be coming to an end. It’s only a rumour at this stage, but all is said to be not well inside the camp, and that an announcement may be made before Christmas about the […]
So Tasmania have dived for another ex-copper to fix the mess that the previous ex-copper in harness racing created. All the time while another ex-copper who recycles vegetable oil in fast food fryers under the guise of his company name Solotrek is Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole’s biggest owner. What a fine fatty mess the trots in […]
It’s hard to know. All we can say is that Trent Dawson’s drive on the 2nd string K. Seymour AM’s pacer Future Assured certainly gave G. ‘Moses’ Dixon on Mr Seymour’s top seed Future Assured a great boost by holding Swayzee out and then letting Leap cross easily to the lead when the Candyman came […]
There is a vicious rumour sweeping racing that soon to retire race riding legend Damian Oliver may be $2.5 million lighter in his pension fund than he expected. The word is that someone close to him and linked in to his business dealings may have misreported the funds that Oliver has available to him, and […]
By Tim Whiffler His achievements In winning Longine’s Hong Kong mile last Sunday, 10 December 2023, Golden Sixty (AUS) joined Good Ba Ba (USA) as the only three times winner of this race, however, Golden Sixty did more than that. He took his overall record to 30 starts for 26 wins, two seconds and one third […]
There were bizarre scenes in Clonmel today as Willie Mullins’ Cash Back won by over 100 lengths in brutal conditions that saw the three contesting horses stutter across the line. In the three-horse, three-mile Jim Strang & Sons Kilsheelan Hurdle, Desert Heather struggled to cross the line at walking pace in second position while Monishter […]
