Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The ninth running of Sydney’s Group 1 $20 million TAB Everest set a new record for World Pool wagering today as a 50,000 plus crowd at Royal Randwick watched Hong Kong’s Ka Ying Rising win the world’s richest race on turf. Watched by hundreds of millions of other viewers around the world, Ka Ying Rising […]
A picture tells a thousand words. Some say two to the Valley. Like this one of todays crowd at Randwick says to Peter V’Landys knockers. Have you ever seen so many young people at a race meeting in your life? I’ve been goin to track for half a century and I haven’t, not even at […]
Dr Whiting discusses the form with the famous French punter Marcel Duchamp The Man in Black doesn’t handle Caulfield so we have him aside until the carnival. You’ve got the Nude Tipster Dr Georgia Whiting instead. I know whose tips I prefer. And she doesn’t wear a suit.
There were unusual scenes before the second race at Ipswich yesterday when Stewards hauled trainer Mark Currie into the room and demanded an explanation for his stable runner Successismagic having been backed from $19.00 into $6.50* given it’s god awful form. It was a fair question too. Successismagic had raced twice previously, finishing 1oth of […]
Stephen Stanek wasn’t much of a horse trainer, leading in just 2 winners from 75 runners in the decade between 2010 and 2020 that he held a license. Stanek doesn’t seem like much of a bloke either according to the report below that appeared in the Toowoomba Chronicle today. There are bad eggs in every […]
Show Me The Money While the debate continues about which of The Everest and Caulfield Cup day meetings are the best, the jockeys are talking with their feet as Craig Williams, Ethan Brown, Ben Melham, Declan Bates, Damien Lane and Michael Dee make the pilgrimage north to ride at Randwick in preference to the big […]
Gee you were unlucky if you backed the favorite Vovo in the last at Doomben yesterday. First the mare collides with the running rail leaving the saddling enclosure. She is vetted and passed fit to run. Then when the whole field is almost loaded one of the runners burrows under the barrier and bolts. There […]
Many still believe that the recently and quite mysteriously departed Melbourne Racing Club Chairman John Kanga was the best thing ever to come along for the club. The 2025 MRC financial report tells a different story. Under Kanga’s first (and as it turns out only) year of leadership the club lost $17.3 million, something that […]
It seems that it may not only be the 1100m start point at Emerald that is more than a few meters short of where it should be. Based on times the 1000m start appears to be about a dozen strides short of where it should be as well. Sunnycoast won the 1000m Open at Emerald […]
The Stewards at Emerald on Saturday expressed concerns about the winner of the maiden running a time of 1.00.7, which was just outside the track record, and upon investigation discovered that there was no fixed marker to denote the 1100m starting point. They ordered that one be placed before the next race meeting at the […]
