Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I’m just a mug punter having a few bets to try and scrape quid, not an expert horseman, but there are a few things you learn when you watch horse races every waking hour of every day. One of them is that when the Stewards approve a horse wearing ear muffs pre-race only to help […]
Jockey Justin Huxtable has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, and he deserves every bit of what he gets and what’s coming, for I know who the girl is that he’s circulated the private intimate images of to his mates, and trust me when I tell you that while she’s just […]
This looks like being the summer of North Queensland racing’s discontent if the rumors coming out of Cluden Park about the Townsville Turf Club’s financial problems are true, which our sources inside the TTC inner sanctum assure us they are. The club’s recorded a million dollar loss for the year we’re told, which is an […]
I never cease to be astounded about the massive contradiction between the devout faith in racing integrity espoused by the people who run the three codes in this State, and the records of people employed or licensed in Queensland under their rigorous regulatory watch. Here are just a few off the top of my head. […]
Told you that Verdad was a non-winner didn’t we? The gay deceiver did it again last night, despite dropping six points in grade down to a BM78. You could probably run this first to post hater in a BM58 at Benalla and he’d still find a way to get beaten. Verdad led the field of […]
On Tuesday morning officers from the QRIC Compliance Assurance Team (CAT) rocked up to the stables of trainer Ryan Tyrell to conduct an inspection of his two runners at Gatton later in the day. What they found was a pair of horses looking like junkies who’d run out of veins in their arm and resorted […]
Australia’s oldest jockey Keith Ballard is retiring. So he should too after what happened in race 5 at Mt Isa on the 28th of last month. Ballard rode a Tanya Perry trained 3-year-old gelding named Invading Jilly in the race, and up to until 200 meters from home he rode it well too, popping in […]
Many good judges rate Nick Ryan back in his riding days as the best apprentice of his generation, an elite class kid in his riding days who would have been a Melham or Williams if he hadn’t grown big so fast and got too heavy. That may be well true, but to me Ryan’s just […]
The first race at Mt Isa on Monday turned into a horror show when two horses broke down badly in separate incidents during the event and had to be killed by the vet, although in racing we call it humanely euthanized because it sounds so much better. I Am Gold was a 4-year gelding on […]
I get knocked down, but I get up againYou are never gonna keep me down – Chumbawamba Kobie O’Brien, the founder of everybody’s favorite syndicator KO Racing, has been copping a beating lately, with blows being landed on him from every direction, including ours but they don’t hurt. O’Brien like Icarus flew too close to […]
