Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Gday Archie I’m a long time subscriber who enjoys reading your informative articles daily, I admire your relentless determination to expose the frauds in racing. I have over 30 years hands on experience training ( mainly slow horses), and I believe the biggest threat to integrity is the use of EPO /peptides and the dodgy […]
Astero started favorite in an Open company race at Doomben yesterday, the best race on the card. Less than 2 years ago it beat Savvy Legend into 2nd place in good quality restricted race at Newcastle. Four starts back Savvy Legend won a heat of the Provincial Stayers championship at Ipswich. Next start out it […]
What a wonderful year it has been for New Zealand racing, and what fantastic horses they have produced. Any of about six of them might been crowned NZ Horse of the Year in many other years, but there can only be one winner, and even before the final field for the award has been released […]
The New Zealand thoroughbred horse of the year awards are fast approaching, so we thought it timely to put out 2 cents in about who might win and who mightn’t. These are just our opinions. But we are pretty sure they shouldn’t be too far from the mark. CHAMPION TWO-YEAR-OLD This is a really tough […]
Racing clubs in Victoria, New South Wales and Hong Kong are wooing Horse of the Year-in-waiting Sharp ’N’ Smart as trainers Graeme and Debbie Rogerson map out a multi-million dollar campaign aimed at the Melbourne Cup. Sharp ’N’ Smart earned $3 million as a three-year-old, a tally which should see him voted the country’s top […]
“I’m semi-retired, life is good up here, ride the picnics on a Saturday for wages to pay for the Grey Goose, keep active, drive an Uber a couple of days a week and work at the track from 7am to 1pm three days a week, I’m behind the barriers tomorrow, 12 trials on the Poly,” […]
There have been at least 4 major falls on the Ipswich track at Bundamba this century. They all happened on the same section of the track between the 1000m mark and the home turn. That one you see in the picture at the top. The one right next to the river. Rivers and creeks carry […]
A year ago Angela Jones, a kid from Charters Towers, had only ridden 3 times in the city, and had won just a single race in the big smoke. Jones was being talked in some circles as an emerging talent, but a lot of young riders have been over the years, only to disappear without […]
How would you be? You’re a kid from Grafton who has moved up to the Sunshine Coast to chase your dream of being a pro jockey. Today you make the trek up to Gympie for your first ever ride in a race, and your dreams come true. Can you believe it? Young Brodie M0ffat must […]
Campbelltown, City of Magpies and Dreams, broken ones the pair Either Tommy Berry is the most philosophical and eloquent jockey in Australian racing history, or a bloke with same first name is writing his scripts. I would bet the washing machine on the latter. Tommy Too has gotta be a Westie though doesn’t he? I […]
