One For the Black Book
Put the name Zourosa in your little black book and get on the filly next time she appears in a Maiden. The form guide will tell you that Zourosa finished 6th at Mornington yesterday beaten 4 lengths, but it was a much better run than it looked given that rider Jamie Melham didn’t give it […]
What the Hell is Going on Out at Barcy?
What’s going on with all these horses formerly trained by Brett Cavanough out at disqualified participant Todd Austin’s property at Barcaldine? At least three of the Cavanough horses – two of them part-owned by Austin’s wife Toni – have been transferred according to Racing Australia’s records, but to who? The records don’t show the horses […]
Tom Callaghan is Staring Straight Down the Barrel at a Decent Spell
I will come straight out and say it. It looks to me that Harness driver Tom Callaghan cheated in race 3 at Albion Park on Saturday night. Cheated in a most egregious way. Callaghan deliberately steered his drive, the odds on favorite Major Hot, out off a straight line in the straight so he could […]
Altered Perceptions
Victorian trainer Rhonda Mangan was on Facebook yesterday bemoaning the fact that owners won’t give her horses even though she sends out updates on their horses 2-3 times a week, saying that instead they prefer to send their gallopers to big trainers whose communication is nowhere near as good. That’s Mangan’s story and she is […]
Lame One Day, Dead the Next – The Passing of Thunder Mania, Aged Just Eight
Anyone watching the last race at Mackay on Thursday afternoon could see that something catastrophic had happened to the Phillip Pengelly trained Thunder Mania, which was pulled up at around the 700m mark after clearly going amiss. The horse had been sweating up like a pig before the race, which was unusual for it (my […]
The Naked Tipster is Back to Give Us Some More Six – (Don’t Say That in Kiwi)
Fresh off yet another six winner weekend, Australia’s most beloved nude tipster Dr Georgia Whiting PhD is back to steer punters in the right direction at the Valley today. The Doc’s best bet is race 5 number 3 ANGEL CAPITAL. Her each way special is race 4 number 3 MISS TARZY. As they say in […]
If D. Weir Wasn’t Using Jiggers as Part of His Broader Regular Training Regime, Then We’re All Monkeys Aunts and Uncles
This website has been much criticized by supporters of Darren Weir for our firm and oft repeated position that the trainer was guilty of a monstrous act that was deserving of a severe penalty, up to and including being warned off for life. Unlike most of our critic we had seen the footage of Darren […]
Throw Them to the Lions
We learned this week of the disgraceful actions of former licensed NSW stable hand Samantha Murphy, who neglected a number of retired racehorses in her care so badly that they died, and then left their putrefied corpses lying out in a 120 acre paddock to rot. The horses had been cast into the paddock and […]
Aust v NZ – A Eureka Eve Showdown
Henare’s letter about the quality of the Eureka field, and how the total collective prizemoney of the runners in the race was only $2.7 million, got us thinking about what the field for an elite Kiwi bred-only slot race for three and four-year-old pacers might look like, and how much they would have earned. To […]