My First Christmas Without Dad
Sucked. Don’t tell the kids. Enjoy what you have got. It’s a long time gone.
2020 People’s Choice Racing Awards – The Nominees Are …..
JOCKEY OF THE YEAR Glen Boss Enigmatic pain in the arse who goes like a busted one outside of carnivals time, and then steps up and slays them. Bossy will never win a consistency award or a popularity prize either, but gee when you have a horse who is a sneaky chance in a Group […]
A Greek Tragedy, and a Wade Birch Farce – The Innocence of Nash – Part 1 – How it Rolled, in Words
The ride in a sense lacks competition, lacks competitiveness – Wade Birch Snyder: There are some things I can just smell. It’s like a sixth sense Giles: Well, actually, that would be one of the five – Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Wade Birch tough stewarding mania train rolls on this Friday when […]
A Greek Tragedy, and a Wade Birch Farce – The Innocence of Nash – Part 2 – How it Rolled, in Pictures
A Greek Tragedy, and a Wade Birch Farce – The Innocence of Nash – Part 3 – Oh, and By the Way, Has Anyone Got a Form Guide Mr Birch Can Borrow?
When you are assessing a racehorse’s performance or a jockey’s ride, it is always instructive to look at the form guide first. Let me tell you a little about Greek Hero’s form. It is an English galloper that has won three races in its life. All bar one of them was on soft ground, which […]
Wade’s Birch is a Big Talking Feather Duster – Piss, Wind, and Bulldfust – Brenton Avdulla Walks Away Free Just Like He Always Would
Well just as we predicted earlier in the week, acting NSW Chief Steward and former Steve Fletcher employee Wade Birch’s attempt at slotting Brenton Avdulla for a perfectly acceptable ride on an unwanted 40-1 shot has collapsed into the nothing that it always was. Birch went out talking tough. Had those surrounding circumstances not have […]
Meet the Owner of Vecta Pharma Pty Ltd – The American Horse Dope Dealer’s Man in Oz
The Name That Must Not Be Spoken – Punter Banned For Life For Saying ‘D. Nikolic’
This story is so bizarre that you could hardly believe that it was true if you hadn’t seen the proof with your own eyes, and had a colleague check to see that you hadn’t gone mad. I have, and it’s confirmed that it is not me or the life-long punter and racing fan Col Elliott […]
When the Integrity Chief Reads From a Script, It is Hard to Believe That He’s Not Acting
“Our sympathies are extended to Coolmore and the Williams family, the owners of Cliffs of Moher, jockey Ryan Moore, trainer Aidan O’Brien and his staff who cared for the horse and are greatly saddened by their loss.” – Jamie Stier 2018 “Our sympathies are extended to the owners of Anthony Van Dyck, trainer Aidan O’Brien […]
The QRIC’s Decision on Scott Sheargold’s Disgraceful Sexual Harassment of a Young Kid Drags Queensland Racing into the Mud – And We All Get Dirty and Covered in Filth
Jockey Scott Sheargold sexually harassed a young stablehand when she 15 and 16 years of age. It wasn’t a one off, it was course of action over a protracted period of time. He told this young girl – a kid, just out of school – that he wanted to take her virginity, and described in […]