Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Danny Bougoure has been in the wars lately, after being kicked out of his infield stables at Eagle Farm to make room for Annabel Neesham to have some. Matt Rudolph from the BRC that run the track reckoned that D. Bougoure’s strike rate was not good enough to justify him keeping barns there, and as […]
It was a much better run by Verry Elleegant 2nd up at Lonchamp on Sunday, and she did ridden upside down and against good horses too. From the big picture point of view it doesn’t matter. She is still a million to one to win the Arc. It’s not just because aged mares don’t win […]
Greg Carpenter was the Victorian handicapper for 18 years. He rates the best five Australian horses that he ever saw in that time as Winx, So You Think, Black Caviar, Makybe Diva and Verry Elleegant. I reckon he’s a pretty good judge. A bloke well suited to his job. Or should I say, his art.
Only two races prior to getting pinched for whipping a horse nine times before the 100m mark, jockey Gary Geran had been suspended for 9 days for careless riding. Then an hour later he does this. “The horse was too calm in the prelim” jockey Geran told the Stipes, before adding that “he felt a […]
The NSW Commission of Inquiry report into Star City Casino is going to be handed down today. Everyone’s mail is that Star Entertainment are $1.10 to be found unfit to hold a casino license. That can be fixed simply in NSW by Star selling out, and someone else taking over. But what is the Queensland […]
He may have been adjudged as being a little mad. But, perhaps, not that mad. TARGET is, of course, referring to Mr Deacon Chiu Te Ken, Chairman of Far East Holdings International Ltd and Far East Consortium International Ltd, both companies, being listed on The Stock Exchange of Hongkong Ltd. Mr Deacon Chiu Te Ken, […]
It’s easy. Pre-race swab them There was almost half a million dollars in stakes on offer at the Cairns Amateurs meeting yesterday, including the Cup worth $150k and the Sprint worth $75 000. Three horses were pre-race swabbed across the whole day. Their odds in the betting were $10, $14, and $51. Down south at […]
There are few good stories out the Cairns Amateurs over the weekend. One is that thanks to the big sunnies and hat and the Covid mask no-one spotted me at the track yesterday, even when I was standing there talking to them. It was fun. Race caller David Fowler wasn’t having any fun at the […]
The Cloncurry & DRC non-Tab race meeting scheduled for Saturday September 10 has been rescheduled to be conducted at Mount Isa due to the state of the track. A QRIC Stewards inspection of the Cloncurry racetrack (also attended by 2 senior jockeys) on raceday morning found a number of small stones remaining on parts of […]
The Group 1 J.J. Atkins – formerly the T.J. Smith, and before that the Castlemaine – is Queensland’s pre-eminent 2YO race. It’s Australia’s second best mile race for juveniles too, about a half head behind the Champagne Stakes. Only two New Zealand horses have won it in the 21st century, Sacred Elixir who went on […]
