Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If there is one thing worse than a race caller calling the wrong horse the winner, it is when the caller doesn’t even realize it. Talk about rubbing egg in your own face. Number 10 Pure Silver didn’t win the 5th at Bunbury on Saturday as called. The 4 horse Fiery Spark did. There is […]
It’s not often you see a $151 rank outsider that is tailed off last at the 1000m catch the field, come ten wide around the turn, and fly home to finish third paying $25.00 for the place. You did yesterday in the seventh race at Cowra. Graeme’s Shout was the horse. They tell me Graeme […]
Hi NAME REDACTED, There have been further developments provided by Racing NSW today. Peter V’landys has neither refused or accepted my application but instead sought independent assessment of my metropolitan license upgrade application – what I can only imagine is a first. Given that Dad has withdrawn his appeal, there is no extension provided to […]
New Zealand-born and Sydney-based trainer Bjorn Baker’s celebrations have gone viral but there is a method behind the madness, writes Adam Pengilly. IF YOU HAVEN’T already seen the videos, then you likely will soon. Bjorn Baker is in posh committee rooms, in public grandstands, in run-of-the-mill bars in pubs, even roaring loudly from the back […]
The QRIC Stewards team performed much needed without notice drug and alcohol testing at the Mackay racetrack this morning. Or they tried to anyway. No-one was there. Mackay is usually a bustling training center in the early hours before dawn when the QRIC team arrived at 4.3oam, but it was like a ghost town as […]
US stud Darby Dan Farms has introduced an initiative that may prove hugely attractive to Australian breeders, particularly smaller broodmare owners at the middle to lower end of the spectrum. The stud – that stands 12 stallions at service fees between $2500 and $15 000 – is offering its client what it calls a Breeder […]
The whisper from the QRIC’s Breakfast Creek bunker is that the QLD gallops Chief Steward Josh Adams and a local Brisbane company are working together on technology that will assist with protest hearings. Made using real-time positional data technology, similar to ball tracker, the new software will be able to tell stewards everything: the direction […]
Tyler Leslight and Billy Johnson having a chuckle about how the kid gave Justin Stanley the old what for, and got away with it ILZOOMYA – Stewards questioned rider Tyler Leslight regarding his riding action rounding the final turn where his right elbow was extended immediately prior to SPIRIT OF GIVING improving to his inside. […]
The rumor mill is running rife that a leading Toowoomba trainer has had two horses throw positive swabs to Meloxicam. We won’t name them at present until we can confirm, but no-one will be surprised if and when we do. You will just shake your head and say surely they couldn’t be that silly could […]
Race 2: TOMS TARPS / TWIDALE AUTO / FULL BOAR WELDING BENCHMARK 55 HCAP 1400m Declaration of correct weight was significantly delayed allowing Stewards to ascertain how the start of the event had been effected when GOVERNOR GENERAL was not loaded into the barrier. After taking evidence from Starter Mr I Henderson and all riders […]
