Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Bill Clinton successful 1992 campaign run for US President was founded on a simple premise. It’s the economy, stupid. Everything revolves around the economy. If money is coming in hard, everything is sweet. If it’s not, then life’s a constant struggle, and running racing is too.. It is easy as that. Why then is Peter […]
I know that a lot of Australian readers get sick of hearing stories about Kiwi racing, but just like it was in the war our two countries are co-dependent, and the good health of racing of both codes in one relies on good health of racing in the other, and if you don’t believe me […]
What the hell was Samantha Collett doing on She’s The Gift in the Mooloolaba Cup yesterday? She served it up like merry hell to the leader and favourite Without Revenge from whoa to go, but she was never really looking for the lead. Every time she got a sniffing of taking it she eased. Then […]
For those of us who don’t know a great deal about horse doping – which is most normal, good people – the revelations in the FBI drug prosecutions and trials are extremely instructive. In fact when you read them and think about a lot of things that happen here in the Southern Hemisphere – things […]
Oh man I hope I live long enough to see another Winx, but having had the rare joy of seeing two of Australia’s greatest three horses in my lifetime, and another three of the top ten, sadly I very much doubt it. When you’ve watched the careers of the greatest two horses that the world […]
I appreciate that Racing QLD’s media man is only a young bloke, and that he is probably quite new to racing and learning on his feet. But when you are going to make bold assertions about who has and hasn’t held both gallops and trots training licenses you should know your facts, especially if you […]
If you grew up in Brisbane in the 70’s and 80’s and played footy – rugby league – you knew all about Bishop Park and the tricks the Norths Devils club got up to. You also knew that if you pulled some of your own the old Norths Ladies in the stand on the eastern […]
As I said in the story when I gave out the tips, it was a good day for golf. 3 tips plus a saver. All lost. 4 units invested. 4 units lost. Return zero. ROI nil. From here on in we are only giving Group or Feature race tips on the gallops. Our record there […]
These are the Racenet ‘experts’ tips. Only 3 from 9 turned a profit. Mark Guest got 2 from 4, and made 1.25 units. Tony Brassel was 0 from 2, minus 2 units. The Armchair Punter should stay there. He got 1 from 4, at $3.00, for a loss of 1 unit. The Oracle got 2 from […]
How does a hitherto healthy six-year-old gelding get beaten 30 lengths in a race, get examined by the vet and show signs of colic, return to it’s stable, collapse and die? Oakfield Hiawatha did last Saturday afternoon at Home Hill. The Stewards reported that samples were taken from the horse while it was dead. I […]
