Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Brisbane trainer Lindsay Gough doesn’t like it when on the rare occasion we write about him, so we won’t. A picture tells a thousand words. Here is one from the Caloundra races yesterday. To save me the late night abusive phone calls, will someone tell Lindsay that the Stewards published it, not me. Thanks. It […]
If you can’t see something with this race the you are blind. It is race 5 at Mackay on Thursday. The $1.35 favourite is Big Jake, ridden by Justin Stanley. Ridden stone cold dead, in the most disgraceful of manners. Stanley took Big Jake straight back to last, and kept it there until it was […]
Australia is the greatest country on earth. It goes without saying. You don’t see Australians piling on to leaky boats to do anywhere else do you? Nowhere other than around the world like Jessica Watson did at 16 to become the youngest kid ever to circumnavigate the globe. She came straight back of course. When […]
This is how you run official jump outs. It’s heat 18 at Clifford Park on Tuesday. Keep your eye on the horse out the back of the barriers. That’s brilliant work isn’t it? Has anyone got a hammer? I feel like hitting myself in the head.
‘Why, George,’ I say to Gentleman George, ‘then you are the victim of a great wrong, and I will see the governor, or somebody, in your behalf at once. They cannot do this to you, when according to your own story, you are not directly connected with the matter of Mrs. Colonel Samuel B. Venus, […]
From: Trent Doughty <Trent.Doughty@kellypartnerswealth.com.au> Sent: Sunday, 7 February 2021 9:31 PM To: Paul Dobson <Paul.Dobson@kellypartners.com.au> Subject: Investment Portfolio Proposal – VHRC Victorian Harness Racing Club Dear Paul, Thank you for the opportunity to make a proposal to the Victorian Harness Racing Club on the ongoing wealth management of the VHRC investment portfolio. As you know, with RBA Cash rates […]
As foreshadowed in a series of articles published on this website early last month, the popular and highly respected businessman, long-time harness racing owner and participant Fred Crews has been expelled from the Victorian Harness Racing Club and banned from the club for five years. The official reason given for Fred’s expulsion is that when […]
The Victorian Harness Racing Club Inc. is a most peculiar beast. There appear to be somewhere between 400 and 500 members of the club, and each pay their subscriptions annually. The main business of the club appears to be putting on a happy hour at the trots for its members once a month, hosting a […]
Heidi Whalley is a passionate young horse thoroughbred owner, strapper, and mother who is happily married to jockey James Orman, and madly in love with him to boot. Or she was until Saturday anyway. A strapper that is. Now Heidi is a horse trainer, and she will become a damn fine one too. Reachforthestars – […]
ROSEHILL – Wednesday 17 November 2021 RACE 7 – XXXX Handicap 1300m: Rubamos – The Stewards today continued an inquiry which was opened at Rosehill Gardens on Wednesday 17 November 2021 in relation to the tactics adopted by rider A Adkins on Rubamos, particularly in the early stages of the race. Evidence was taken from […]
