Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well I am buggered if I know why every good jockey in Australia doesn’t move to Mt Isa. After all, you get to ride 5 horse a week and earn a grand, live in the sort of suffocating heat that killed Burke and Wills, eat crap food and drink in pubs with bogans, live out […]
Someone at the QRIC or the race club forgot to take a number 15 saddlecloth to the Barcaldine races on Saturday. Which meant that come the last race where the emergencies gained runs, Lasco didn’t have a number. So someone tore a sheet or tablecloth apart and hand made one. They didn’t do a very […]
Pakistan Star’s amazing effort had nothing on the win at Toowoomba yesterday Look inside the yellow circle. The horse drawn the inside. Do you see the barrier attendant blocking it’s path out of the gate? It’s a bit dark, so watch the slow-motion replay instead. Look closely. What is the barrier attendant doing? The attendant […]
Is this for real? Was there just only Steward – Mr Kim Daly – officiating at yesterday’s Chinchilla race meeting? Did Mr Daly also perform the duties of the Clerk of the Scales? Why were there two judges and two vets, but only one steward and no clerk? How could Mr Daly possibly run the […]
Under the trust deed that gives them the cheap land to sub-lease to Mike Symons and his friends so they can get richer and richer, the Melbourne Racing Club is required to provide open space facilities to the public on the Caulfield Racecourse Reserve. Things like outdoor recreational fitness facilities. BBQ and picnic facilities. Pedestrian […]
You’ve probably heard all about the Melbourne Racing Club’s plan to build a second track inside Caulfield, and seen the reaction from the trainers and jockeys about it. They are right of course. CEO of the MRC Josh Blanksby – have you ever heard a more perfect name? – reckons that the new track will […]
What a balls up this whole Caufield racecourse thing is, a shambles of epic proportions. We will tell you about it later. Right now we want to tell you about the great rock n roll Caulfield rort. Do you remember Mike Symons, the former Chairman of the Melbourne Racing Cluband owner of Aquanita Racing? The […]
Nobody told me there’d be days like these Strange days indeed Most peculiar, mama The Beatles So Joe Punter’s alarm goes off at 6.00am yesterday, half an hour earlier than usual because he wants to sneak half an hour’s form study and get his bets worked out before he has to get ready for work. […]
Here is yet another protest decision that leave you scratching your head and thinking what the heck? It’s race 7 at Ipswich yesterday. Jaden Lloyd is riding the horse on the inside in the pink and grey. Ryan Maloney is three out in the light blue. Ben Thompson is in the middle in the blue […]
What you see below are the total prizemoney and other distributions (rebates, subsidies, breeder incentives, etc) paid to the racing industry by the Principal Racing Authorities as a share of the overall payments made across Australia in the years 2011 v 2021. I hate to sound like a Peter V’Landys spruiker again here, but facts […]
