Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
City Of Troy at Coolmore, wearing his Longines World’s Best Horse rug By Will Jones, award winning author of The Black Horse Newsletter Aidan O’Brien, of course, told everyone City Of Troy was his best Epsom Derby winner and even the best horse he had ever trained. No one, of course, believed him; it was […]
The great Ajax (above), triple winner of the All Aged Stakes The All Aged Stakes is one of the oldest and most prestigious races in Sydney, with today’s edition the 160th running of the race. It’s an intriguing affair too, with live chances left, right and centre; Group 1 winners all across the page; and […]
At a time when there is huge conjecture over the future of the $2.1 million slot race, we have a simple idea about how to Make the Eureka Great Again (MEGA). There is only 4YO in the country that has the WOW factor, that pulls in punters and fans from all quarters to watch every […]
The biggest plunge of the day was landed yesterday at Menangle by owner Rex Horne and his mate and trainer Leon Jurd, when their pacer Lochiel, which had failed to run a place at its previous ten starts, was backed from $16.00 into $5.00 in the last ten minutes of betting to win the 6th […]
Pre Dawn Rockhampton trackwork incident could have led to massive injury and legal consequences. The track supervisor at Callaghan Park was running late yesterday morning. We don’t know why, he just was. These things happen. What happened next shouldn’t have though. The trackwork supervisor’s job begins before dawn. It is to drive around the track […]
Dear Archie, The great smouldering pile of decay that is the state of integrity management and administration of Queensland Racing ticked a new box this afternoon at Townsville’s Cluden Park. When acceptances for Tuesday’s (today) Townsville meeting closed at 9am last Friday, 11 April, a gelding named ELLEVES was a 46 rated horse and was […]
As we predicted Jim Murdoch KC (pictured) has weaved his magic and got Tom Smith off with a fully suspended sentence and a fine. We should become fortune tellers. Smith is caught red handed beating a horse for 33 minutes straight and he gets effectively gets off with a fine. You’d have to be kidding. […]
The best performed graduates – sorted by group status. Outstanding results from Magic Millions graduates, with 27 of these top 30 winning a group race Four of these graduates from the 2021 crop are Group 1 winners. 18 of these 30 winning graduates have already earned more prize money than money than their purchase […]
What trainer Thomas Smith did While attempting to swim a young unnamed bay gelding (‘the horse’), Smith: Struck the horse on several occasions using the poly pipe on the gelding’s rump and hind using force Struck the horse across the neck with the poly pipe Shortened the poly pipe to use it as a blunt […]
There have been some very unsavory instances of animal abuse in Queensland racing lately, and the debate continues to rage about the disparity in sentences delivered to the offenders. No-one though is arguing about the sentence handed down on NZ gallops trainer and horse breaker John Ross Malcolm. This bad, bad man got life, and […]
