Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dear Archie, To the best of my knowledge Todd Austin was disqualified for a period of 5 years starting in 2023. Heard a whisper he was at Blackall races on Saturday. Cavanough left some horses behind owned by Toni Austin and Gary Peoples (after winning at Aramac). Have they been getting worked early out of […]
Oisin Murphy is a brilliant rider, a real star in the saddle, as most Australians who witnessed him ride out here as an apprentice will attest. Murphy is also a supreme competitor who works by the “Do whatever it takes” to win philosophy made famous by former Labor Senator Graham Richardson. Leading UK trainer William […]
Now there is something you don’t see every day. An uncontested protest. Cody Cole (pictured above on our left), the trainer of the 4th horse over the line Nomad, took one look at the Stewards footage after the rider of the 5th horse fired in an objection and immediately threw in the towel. Cole told […]
Hi Archie Think your concerns re the stewarding at Marburg is a bit misguided. The Stewards should be commended for showing common sense in their approach to some of gallopers on the day. Well done them. Less than one third of the starters(19 of 58) on the day had ever raced at Marburg previously. And […]
It didn’t seem to attract the interest of the mainstream racing media, but we were intrigued about the distance of the King Charles III at Randwick on Saturday being 1609m rather than the traditional (but wrongly calculated) 1600m of the famous Randwick mile that the race was run over last year, and that is used […]
I asked eleven people over the weekend who the favorite for the Cup was. Dr Harry was the only one to get it right.* No-one else but him knew who the topweight was, and how much they had to carry. Al Riffa is the answer to the first question. He can’t win it in our […]
Clinton ‘Squizzy’ Taylor is Australia’s greatest trainer. You only need to look at his strike rate this season to realize that. While Chris Waller is plodding along at 13.9%, Ciaron Maher meandering slowly at 11.2%, and even Brisbane’s dominant force Tony Gollan only finding success 20.6% of the time, Squizzy Taylor from Rockhampton is out […]
Former Kiwi Horse of the Year Sharp ‘N’ Smart hasn’t won a race in 19 starts since his victory in the 2023 NZ Derby and has suffered a few injury setbacks since, but after slashing third-up performance to finish third in the Group 1 Livamol Classic at Ellerslie over the Cox Plate distance of 2040m […]
Two years ago Goldman was one of the early favorites for the Melbourne Cup after having earnt a golden ticket into the race by winning the Roy Higgins in the Autumn. After finishing third last behind Without A Fight in the Caulfield Cup his Spring campaign in 2023 was aborted, and he never made it […]
Much was made of Ka Ying Rising being beaten in its first Australian trial, with some trying to have you believe the walls had fallen in, and the roof and the doors too. It didn’t quite turn out to be that way did it. KYR won the Everest. Overpass who was runner-up in the trial […]
