Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Is the rumor true that Todd Austin has had his sentence for the Birdsville jigger slashed in half? If so, why? Are the whispers right that the KO Thoroughbred Racing syndicates will soon be managed out of Barcaldine? What chance are Inglis of getting paid their outstanding accounts? Now that the prosecution has dropped the […]
Is the rumblings we are hearing out of Brisbane are correct, strange things appear to be afoot within the walls of everyone’s favorite thoroughbred syndicator KO Thoroughbred Racing. The last time we wrote a story about them, KO Thoroughbred Racing’s website advertised its team as being founder Kobie O’Brien, partner Kurt Cockburn, Racing and Bloodstock […]
Watch the replay of race 3 at Grafton on Sunday. Keep your eyes on the horse on the inside in these colours and the one on its outside in these ones . See how they jostle in the straight? The finish is a close photo but the one in the red black and yellow flashes […]
Where’s that Archie hiding now? A few years bacl I remember laughing at John Symons when he told me that he’d paid $120 000 for a colt by then first season sire The Mission at the March Yearling sale at the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale. “The Mission?” I snorted. “That cat could […]
The bloke in the picture is the starter responsible for the disaster at Doomben yesterday in race 6. We don’t know the flash Harry looking fella’s name, but we do know one thing. He should take get a white cane to match his dark sunnies, and maybe a guide dog too. How else could you […]
Have you ever seen a stuff-up like the start of race 6 at Doomben yesterday in your life? The rider of Glorious Ruby gets hurled out the back of the stalls. There is shouting and commotion everywhere, and the official behind the gates raises their hand to alert the starter, but it doesn’t work. Somehow […]
Michael Rodd’s ride on the leader Fifth Position in the 5th race at Eagle Farm yesterday was sheer lunacy, a misjudged steer of such magnitude by the senior rider that he should have been given time. The times say it all. Rodd took Fifth Position through the first 1200m of this BM78 class 1800m race […]
The full decision of the Victorian Racing Tribunal in the Darren Weir case has now been published, and is available for reading at https://content.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-07/VRT-Decision-Darren-Weir-Jarrod-McLean-Tyson-Kermond-5-July-2024.docx What is striking about the decision at first glance is that it appears immediately clear that Weir has been sentenced on the wrong factual basis. The VRT has determined that the […]
Last month on Stradbroke day the old John Power grandstand made the headlines when the Brisbane Racing Club publicly challenged the QLD Racing Minister to stump up the $80 million allegedly required required to renovate it. The Courier-Mail reported the Minister saying that “the government had not allocated specific money for the grandstand due to […]
Something strange went on at the far-western country TAB meeting at Barcaldine on Monday. The previous Wednesday only 5 horses had been pre-race swabbed at the midweek metropolitan TAB meeting at Eagle Farm. At Barcaldine 15 runner were. All of the jockeys riding at the meeting were swabbed too. Blood was taken from 7 of […]
