Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Half Yours In Color and Goodie Three Shoes in the tie-up stalls on the beach before the running of the 3200m Group 1 Crocodile Cup For some bizarre reason even though close neighbors Eagle Farm, Caloundra and Southport all get a race meeting on Cup day, and Rockhampton and the next town up the line […]
There were a lot of very unhappy punters at Callaghan Park on Melbourne Cup day. The race club didn’t out on a tote or a TAB window, or even a machine. All there was were three bookies, none of them offering anything but win place betting, and with queues stretching some people say up to […]
David Fowler kicked off Cup day with a clanger. He jumbled up a couple of horse names, and for the first 800 meters of the six furlong race he called the leader Extreme Notice when its real name is Rates Notice. Feathers realized his mistake in the straight, and after a quick um and ah […]
There has been a lot of angst in regional QLD about the QRIC’s new practice of rearranging race meeting times in a purported attempt to best look after the welfare of horses and participants in ‘extreme’ heat. One of the major issues is that things appear to be being directed out of Brisbane, where the […]
Here are four Ryland Thoroughbred owned horses racing in Queensland that are going to need to find new owners post haste. Until they do the horses should be stood down immediately from racing. We don’t want to be paying any prizemoney to pedophiles.
There were lots 0f take-ways from Cup day. Here are just a few of them. 1 – Weight Stops Trains Over 2 Miles Joseph O’Brien’s Irish St Leger winner Al Riffa was all the hype coming into the Cup, with one punter – online casino operator and billionaire – Ed Craven, who made his money […]
This magnificent beast in the picture is Parchment Party, the American dirt track stayer par excellence who has made the trek Down Under to try to lift our Cup. The Doc (nude tipster) rates his form big time, and has tipped him to win. Parchment Party certainly looks the part. You couldn’t ask to see […]
The snippet you see above is taken from a story by Peter Ryan about Jamie Melham that appears in today’s The Age. It is wrong. Ben Hayes didn’t take over the training of Harlem (in partnership with Tom Dabernig until 18 months after Melham (then Kah) has won the Australian Cup on the horse. David […]
Fresh from tipping us 5 winners on Derby – she says it would have been 8 if three of her top tips weren’t scratched – the naked tipster Dr Georgia Whiting is back to help us tear the bookies apart on Cup Day. Here are her tips. The Doc has tipped the American dirt tracker […]
There were eight acceptances for the Open Handicap at Cairns yesterday. Five of them were horses owned by Tom Hedley. Two of the Hedley horses were scratched on Thursday shortly after it became clear that there were enough acceptances (min 5) to run the race. Another Hedley owned horse was pulled out of the race […]
