Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It appears from the news filtering in that Nathan Day’s disqualification definitely relates to cash sums passed by the jockey to the Clerk of the Scales, former jockey Wally Welburn, and the track manager cum starter Trent Williams. The transactions were apparently caught on CCTV cameras that had recently been installed in the weigh in […]
(4) If a rider breaches subrule (3), the rider’s horse may be disqualified from that race unless that contact was justified by extraordinary circumstances. Does anyone remember this rule? They used to enforce it one, a long, long time ago. These days it is totally ignored. Jockeys come back to scale after a win and […]
Clayton ‘Crayons’ Warren is the best Steward this side of somewhere, although I am not sure where. Probably Muckadilla Siding. There were four clerical errors in six races at Toowoomba on Saturday night. They were announced via on-course semaphore address, although nobody heard it because no-one was there. Crayons put it up on social media […]
Racing writer Ray Thomas declared that Anamoe was on the verge of being a champion after his romp in the Rosehill Guineas last weekend. It was a huge call about a horse who had won just his third Group 1, each of them in age restricted company. We are about to find out whether Ray […]
1. Four horses have won the Queen Elizabeth Stakes three times. Winx is one of them. Name two of the three others. 2. What was the Queen Elizabeth Stakes called before they changed the name? 3. Over what distance was it originally run? 4. Three horses have won the TJ Smith twice or more. Who […]
The news this week is that the Spring Champion Stakes winner Profondo – the $1.9 million yearling sold at the Magic Millions Sale, the colt they called a champion – has had his Autumn carnival campaign aborted, and is being away for the Spring. If you believe that, you believe in fairies. Profondo will never […]
We don’t keep writing about QLD racing steward’s stuff-ups because we are mean girls. We write about them because they keep happening. How does this one work? The QRIC have altered the result of a race six weeks after it happened. After all the bets have been incorrectly paid, and the punters have been ripped […]
As you can see there was a massive crowd today at Chinchilla. These Monday meetings in the bush are a great idea from a public spectacle point of view aren’t they? I will tell you what though, they go good from a turnover perspective when there is nothing else on. Each race is holding about […]
The Sting Corbould Park, Caloundra, aka the Sunshine Coast. 20 March 2022. Everyone’s a winner. Except favourite punters. Here is how it rolled. Race 1 The winner Nettuno is backed as if unbeatable, $3.10 into $1.65. It is unbeatable. The plunge lands. This is a very smart horse. Put him straight in the black book. […]
South Australian racing is a train wreck. It is a circus run by clowns. That is why the leading trainers like Tony McEvoy are bolting for the hills. Yesterday the Port Lincoln club had a lucrative TAB meeting included in a prominent place in the busy Sky Racing schedule, which is pure gold as far […]
