Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I was talking to an encyclopedia of Australian racing and world breeding last night, and he told me about the day that Surround won the Cox Plate, and only minutes later the world turned black. It was a solar eclipse. I remember it. It was the biggest thing that had Geebung since the polo game. […]
Better late than never. We’re in for a big night. MELTON Race 3 no 2 – Tough Love NSW’s best 2YO female trotter takes on Victoria’s best fillies Just A Bit Touchy and Aldebaran Vera. It beats them too. Peter V’Landys v Giles Thompson. It’s no contest at all is it? Race 4 no 11 […]
Rule 198 is the most stupid rule in racing, for two reasons. The first is that the rule places the absolute onus on jockeys to have their mounts placed in the barrier stalls correctly, with no responsibility for checking them put on the starter or assistant starter at all. Why not? Surely these officials have […]
Harness Racing NSW has a huge problem. The new CEO of the Riverina Paceway that HRNSW brought over from Canada with the future view of assuming John Dumesny’s job when he retires is an avid anti-vaxer who refusesto get the jab. But the rules are that if you are not vaxed you can’t go to […]
History Fagging originated as a structure for maintaining order in boarding schools, when schoolmasters’ authority was practically limited to the classroom. Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby from 1828 to 1841, defined fagging as the power given by the authorities of the school to the Sixth Form, to be exercised by them over younger boys.[1] Fagging was a fully established […]
This is race 2 at Gatton on Monday. If Michael Hellyer wasn’t a good horseman and jockey he might well be dead or in a wheelchair for life as we speak. There was a hole in the track where his horse fell. You can’t see it in the videos, but multiple trainers and jockeys have […]
Watch this. It is race 4 at Gatton on Monday. Keep your eye on the grey. It fell didn’t it? The reason that it fell is that the riders of the horses in front of it were coming off the fence in advance to avoid the hole in the turf just before the 400m mark […]
The Apprentices Cup was held at Gatton yesterday. This time honoured race is a big deal for the kids, who get to pit their skills against each other head to head in a race unencumbered by senior jockeys, in a battle against their peers. It’s a bit like your own child’s school graduation ceremony. It’s […]
You may be wondering why the Melbourne Cup death of the horse Anthony Van Dyck is all over the racing news again, and why trainer Aidan O’Brien has come out and pointed the finger of blame at the Racing Victoria vets. It is because of the unrelenting research and work of a former top journalist […]
The Racing Victoria report into the death of Anthony Van Dyck in The Cup is a total and utter farce, a sick joke played upon everyone in the sport of racing. The simple fact is that this horse should never have been allowed to race, either of his connections or by the vets employed by […]
