Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
