Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Isn’t this a wonderful look? Racing QLD Racing Operations Manager Ross Gove and the chief Handicapper Nathan Bourke in the members area on the piss with friends at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Meanwhile both of them missed the major handicapping error that occurred at Townsville the next day. Perhaps if they paid more attention to […]
Race 1: PARKER’S PLUMBING & GASFIT OPEN Handicap (1100 METRES) ABLETT – Raced three-wide without cover throughout. Laid in under pressure in the home straight. HENRY’S BLADE – Blundered and dislodged its rider approaching the 300m. Upon veterinary examination it was revealed that the gelding had sustained a serious injury to its off-foreleg and was […]
Twenty minutes after our story about the major handicapping error in race 4 at Townsville today was published, QRIC issued the above tweet on its official X account acknowledging the mistake and advising punters who hadn’t already read it here that it had happened. A few minutes later the tweet disappeared, presumably having been removed […]
I am not sure whether to describe what went on at yesterday’s non-TAB meeting at Wondai in QLD as a tragedy or a farce. It was probably both, and there but for the grace of God could have been a whole lot worse. A runner in the first race fell. Henry’s Blade was its name, […]
See the ratings of the horse Smart Mission in the screenshot above taken from the Racing Australia (RISA) website above? Smart Mission has dropped 11 ratings points after its last start 5th at Mackay. Horses don’t drop eleven points after a loss. They drop one. Racing QLD have made a serious error here. As a […]
Tomorrow’s big race meeting at Eagle Farm should be dubbed Invasion Day, because that’s what it is, with trainers from interstate dominating the runners on the program, particularly in the black type races. Queensland trained horses are notable by their absence from the Group 1 Derby, with only 3 of the 18 likely starters trained […]
The second full moon for May. Let’s hope it augurs well for winners. There is a full book of them here at Caulfield on Saturday. Moving up to Brisbane and the Kingsford Smith Cup (race 8) … as President of the Splash Back Fan Club I would just like to say “Go Splashy!!!!” Good luck […]
Sunshine Coast trainer Billy Healey sent out a message to his stable clients a couple of days ago telling them that he had sacked his new Racing Manager Ben Currie. Some people believed it. Currie Racing has fired back. I know who I would bet on to be telling the truth about the whole affair. […]
Why do races at Clifford Park consistently jump late every week? Doesn’t the Toowoomba Turf Club club realize that punters having a crack at finding a get out winner at meetings like theirs tend to bet in the last minute before the jump? And that by running behind time and getting bumped to Sky 2 […]
If you were listening on the radio you would have sworn that the the second at Doomben was a one horse race. After all the caller David Fowler only called one horse over the final furlong, Arabian Rose. Those who had each way or exotic bets didn’t have a clue where their runners were, because […]
