Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Look at the size of this new tower compared to the other two, and look where its positioned. What do you think the problem might be? And do you think sightscreens are going to fix it? I’m sure going up so high seemed to its architects a good idea at the time. After all, the […]
Saturday is the last day of the 2023/2024 country racing season, which means its the last day that the great bush hero Fabs Cowboy will ever step out in a race. The question is, which racecourse will he be bidding us all farewell from? Longreach had been the mail all week, so much so that […]
It just wouldn’t feel right if we went a day’s racing in Queensland without something going wrong. Yesterday it was a winner being incorrectly declared a scratching. Who knows just what it might be today? An elephant will probably escape from the circus and win at Ipswich. Oh no, that can’t happen. It’s too far […]
Readers View 1 Re Fabs Cowboy. It was only nominations. I guess todays weights might tell the story. Or Thursdays final acceptances will. Stella from Sandy Creek Readers View 2 The Longreach race is a plate run at set weights, therefore ratings are irrelevant The race at Charters Towers is a handicap, therefore ratings being […]
A new German equine welfare law prevents the training of horses under 30 months of age, reports The Owner Breeder, though an exemption is currently in place for Thoroughbred racing. The exemption requires a physical and psychometric assessment both before the 2-year-old racehorse goes into training and within two weeks of its first start. That exemption […]
At the risk of being branded a PVL cheerleader, this sheer amount misinformation being circulated by racing industry participants such as form analyst John Walter can’t be allowed to pass without correction, for it poisons the proposed sale of Rosehill debate. Here is the truth about money owed to Racing NSW by the Australian Racing […]
Australian Turf Club Funds generated from a rezoned racecourse (sale of Rosehill) with a Metro Station would secure the financial future of the ATC into the next century Sale would allow creation of 25,000 much-needed new homes Proposed sale of Rosehill offers unprecedented benefits for the entire community, not just racing The proposed sale has […]
Australia’s greatest gallops trainer (self professed) Ronald J.W. (Just Wins) Johnson, aka the Brown Rice man, had trained just 2 winners in the past decade coming into last weekend. To be fair to the master multiple Hay Gold Cup winning trainer however, he had only had 26 runners in that 10 years, so his strike […]
The picture above is an extract from a story writter by Trenton Akers and published on Racenet on 27 April 2o24 https://www.racenet.com.au/news/jimmysstar-burns-punters-again-in-brisbane-handicap-won-by-mighty-ulysses-20240427 I knew I’d seen it before. A horse shy at the exact same section of the Eagle Farm track as the one on Saturday that caused the fall did. I wrote a story […]
This is the crowd at the Gympie provincial meeting today. It makes the Flemington turnout look second rate. Eat your heart out VRC.
