Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What did we learn from the Caulfield Guineas yesterday? Heaps. Anamoe is a great horse. This bloke sat three-wide the trip, admittedly with cover, but out wide nevertheless. He did this in a race run at a pace that was resulted in a time that was only 0.72 seconds outside of Fields of Omagh’s fifteen-year-old track […]
Australia’s self appointed historian and national moraliser Peter Fitzsimons is off on another one of his wild ant-greyhound racing rants in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, but all it does is make him look silly. I guess that’s not too hard. Fitzsimons basic positions are that: greyhound racing is bad greyhound racing is really bad greyhound […]
We all know now that Ben Currie’s internal review of the decision to deny him his trainer’s license back after serving his time for racing rule breaches has failed. The QRIC maintain it’s stance that a young man aged 30 should be thrown out of the sport for life on spurious grounds, even though he […]
It’s not good for business to be giving your competitor’s a boost, but I am just a mug racing writer not a businessman so what does it matter? This article by David Fowler* published on justhorseracing.com.au about the Ben Currie travesty is an excellent short analysis of both Currie’s current situation and of the systemic […]
They tell me that former jockey turned child murderer turned convict turned trackwork rider again Jason Piper died a couple of weeks ago in Redcliffe. In was an aneurism I am told, or something similar, and the end came quick. I am very sorry to hear that. Piper was only 40, which is far too […]
The Group 2 Stan Fox Stakes is a good race that has been won by some exceptional gallopers over the years, including names like Show County, the Big O (Octagonal), Little O (Lohnro), From the Planet, Demnan, Manawanui, High Regard, Kenwood Melody and All Chant, just to name a few. As the pop up races […]
I will remember this race for the rest of my life. The 2012 Oakleigh Plate. I had been convinced for a long time that the Robert Heathcote trained Woorim was going to win this first-up, but the market disagreed. The punters thought it was a two horse race, and had Sepoy and Bel Sprinter at […]
For the past couple of years now there has been a shortage of jockeys in regional Queensland. There were never a lot ever, but the country and provincial tracks north of the Sunshine Coast only used to race once a week, so there didn’t really need to be. Supply and demand principles worked: there were […]
Tasmanian thoroughbred racing’s principal track at Elwick, Hobart has been a cluster duck since the wholesale reconstruction a couple of years ago that saw the ‘old fashioned’ grass grown in dirt course proper that had worked reasonably well for almost 200 years dug up and replaced with a ‘modern’ Strathayr sand-based track It has been […]
Allow me to throw a statistic at you. Prior to last Saturday, only three 4-year olds had won The Metropolitan in the past 20 years. They were Glencadam Gold, Tawqueet and Railings. Both Tawqueet and Railings won the Caulfield Cup at their next start. Montefilia won the Metrop on the weekend after sitting three-wide no […]
