Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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. […]
The Hayes boys have inherited great stables and facilities out at the modern day incarnation of Lindsay Park, and the full brothers are bred to be champion horse trainers, being by Colin out of David, so they have some great advantages in racing life that are the envy of many and admired by all. They […]
A leading Queensland jockey who was injured in a fall at Doomben three years ago is suing for more than $2.4m, claiming actions of racecourse staff caused his horse to take fright. Champion jockey Jim Byrne, 51, fractured his right knee when he fell from two-year-old racehorse Kavak, during race seven at Doomben Racecourse on […]
On the eve of her first French start the European campaign of champion mare Verry Elleegant has hit a hurdle with the Melbourne Cup winner a notable absentee from a scheduled Group 1 assignment this week. Verry Elleegant was due to kick off her Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe campaign in Tuesday’s (EST) Group 1 […]
