Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last week we wrote a story bagging the Bondi as joke. Yesterday Lease proved us right. This A.J. Cummings trained galloper ran third in the million dollar race named after a topless beach. At Randwick on Cup day he led in a 1600m BM68, and got run down by a horse whose sum total of […]
They should put a huge poster of Willie Pike riding Mrs America to a nose victory in the 7th at Ascot at the door of every apprentice school in Australia. Watch how he is in the irons. See how low he is in saddle. Look at how his body is almost horizontal. Stare in wonder […]
Look at the price of Station One in the next in Melbourne. Look at the fluctuations. At its first start they backed this horse from $26 into $5. It got the biscuits. They’ve thrown it up. I’d like to wish them good luck, but it will knock me out of the Quaddie. So the best […]
Oh my goodness. I have just seen the worst injury I can ever remember seeing in my life on a racecourse, and it has happened right in front of a huge Melbourne Cup day crowd at Morphetville in South Australia. Mickey Mouse is the horse. It’s the one on the far left as you look […]
Remember the story we told you earlier in the week about the dubious drive at Parkes by young Phoebe Betts? The one in which it appeared for all the world like she deliberately steered her horse wide in the straight to allow the horse pocketed on the leader’s back through? Well the Stewards have seen […]
See that land in the yellow box? Harness Racing Victoria owns it. The Melton Shire Council sold it to them for $3 million back in the early 2000’s, when Melton was still just a small semi-rural area and steadily developing low cost housing satellite suburb with 50 000 – 60 000 residents. At the time […]
What sort of nonsense is this? RISA have registered the name Brave Warrior to a horse who isn’t him. The naming rules are deficient. Eric Kirwan’s Brave Warrior – the real Brave Warrior – won the Magic Millions, the Gloaming, the Phar Lap Stakes and the Golden Rose, among others. Buit none of the winners […]
He is a real journalist Nathan Exelby. Just ask him. He will tell you. He swears it in affidavits when bagging racing writers like me. Nathan did a single journalism unit in his Sports Science degree at ANU, where he had to go because he didn’t have a high enough TE score to get into […]
A few questions. How does it cost $600 000 to remediate a hundred year old red dirt track that my Dad and Ben Currie’s both used to ride work on when they were 12? Why would the contract to remediate a dirt track go to a company called Global Turf Solutions when there isn’t a […]
