Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Birdsville Jigger (pictured) In March 2023, in what became known as the Birdville Jigger Affair, Todd Austin was found guilty of commissioning an act of cruelty to a horse and two charges of providing false or misleading evidence to stewards at the inquiry into the matter. Austin was disqualified for five years. That means […]
The Lady Godiva of nude form study Dr Georgia Whiting landed with her special yet again at Caulfield yesterday. Our good Doctor (a real one!) is making a habit of this. Stop The Rock was her winning special. It paid $4.80 but she assures me that $6.00 was readily available at the time we published […]
The Brisbane Winter carnival is over, and the swabs seem to have gone on vacation. Only 8 runners on yesterday’s 9 race card at Doomben were pre-race swabbed, two of them in the same race. No horse was pre-race tested in races 3 or 8. Not one of Tony Gollan’s seven runners copped one. None […]
For those of you who were wondering how the hell Royal Supremacy turned around its recent form of 14th of 14 beaten 5.88 lengths at Scone then 11th of 14 beaten 11.8 lengths at Randwick to win the 6th race yesterday at the same track, the answer is simple. Ciaron Maher took off the Norton […]
I always wished that I could be a cowboy, riding hand in rope out where the wind is free But now I wish that I was not a cowboy, cos look what’s gone and happened to me Smokey Dawson – I Can’t Get Off My Horse https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APM12072504.mp4 Between them cousins and rivals Trent and Nathan […]
The Shawn Mathrick stable had a big go at Vegas On Fire in race 7 at Geelong today. $61 into $9.50 they backed the horse. It firmed at almost every turn of the dial. Vegas On Fire had no recent form at all. Last start it ran 11th of 13 beaten more than 15 lengths. […]
Portrait of Ben Currie as a young man. Lucky for him his old man never missed. Nothing’s changed about Boof except the waist line and the color of his hair. Those Currie boys from up on the range sure know how to pull off a plunge. Courtesy of a perfect ride by Jackson Murphy they […]
$1.20 Tim Hale SC – Elected Director (pictured) Waterhouse man. Leading silk. Big wheel at the top end of town. Led the successful anti-sale campaign. Incumbent Vice-Chair. His time has come. We’re tipping him a cert. $4.10 David McGrath – Govt appointed Independent Director. So was rejected and just resigned Chairman Peter McGauran, and look […]
Dr Georgia Whiting is back by popular demand with her selections for Caulfield on Saturday. Lord may she tip us all six winners in a row again!
Wasn’t it lovely to put the starting times for the Mareeba race on Saturday back one race for Alwyn Bailey, after the trainer rang through to tell them that the truck taking his six runners to the meeting had broken down. It may have been a kind gesture by the Stewards but it was a […]
