Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I was chatting to the great horse trainer and former Dr Geoff Chapman tonight, and asked him to explain to me why Michael Hooper’s desertion of his men in Argentina was acceptable. The Doc – a lifelong rugby man through and through – stood up for the Captain who deserted his team, saying that although […]
Tommy sure did kick didn’t he? How terrific. Or should that be horrific? I’ve met a lot of bent blokes in my lifetime, and quite a lot of crooks too, hundred if not thousands of them combined. It’s what you get when you grow up on racetracks of all three persuasions, and when you are […]
I haven’t been to Muttaburra for a couple of years, and I wasn’t there last week, so I can’t tell you what the rainfall was from eye witness experience. But Elders are Australia’s number one rural company, and their word can usually be relied on. They say that it hasn’t rained at all in the […]
I proved this true today Only punters under 50 were surprised when a 100-1 shot won today’s Missile Stakes. History always repeats. I was too young to bet legally in 1984, but it hadn’t stopped me since I was eight years old, so why would it stop me now. It ended up being one of […]
… but if you are are winning on the punt today, then I hope you are bloody cold. Got the shits with the world after being knocked off three times by noses? Nah, not me. Much.
Racing Victoria has been offered a bribe from Alan Endresz to lift the ban on Alligator Blood racing in Melbourne in the Spring. It is a bribe in terms of the common meaning of the word, make no mistake about it. It’s blackmail too. That is a crime punishable by a long periods of imprisonment […]
Finally the bell tolls for Alligator Al, aka Alan Endresz. Peter V’Landys set the standard by applying the rules properly and declaring that bankrupts are banned from racing in his kingdom (or should that be parish?). Racing Queensland disgraced itself by breaking them – both the standards and the rules – and allowing him to […]
Not too many men go from a cell in Long Bay to the right hand of God. The one you can see, not the one you can’t. In NSW his name is Perrottet, Dom Perrottet. Not shaken. not stirred. The other bloke’s Mickey Blue Eyes. He eats Greek muesli for breakfast. I’m not slagging Peter […]
What can you say? Take another bow Peter V’Landys. You must be getting good at it by now.
Nancy looked a lot like her Dad when young, didn’t she? I looked like mine too. Tumby Park. The Garrard family. Lindsay Vagg. Burwood. What do these four have in common, other than a love of harness racing? I will give you some clues. Broodmares. Babies (around 40-50 of them). Business. Bankruptcy (not them). Bids. […]
