Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Like many a country race club, the Bowen Turf Club has been forced in face of a State-wide jockey shortage to resort to digging into its own pocket to try and attract hoops to come and ride at its meetings. All credit to the club for doing so, but it shouldn’t have to. Racing QLD […]
Do you remember Evander Holyfield jumping up and down like a madman from the pain after Mike Tyson bit his ear off if that infamous world heavyweight title bout? Here it is again if you don’t. Now watch the replay of the early part of the 2nd race at Devonport today. Our mail is that […]
These are the stones found by jockeys on the tapeta track at Devonport today before the meeting was called off. You would have to be f**king kidding kidding wouldn’t you? Tasracing should be prosecuted under workplace health and safety laws. Remember how David slew Goliath? It’s a miracle no horse or rider got blinded or […]
How the hell does a race meeting held in overcast but otherwise relatively fine weather of a synthetic tapeta surface get called off after 2 races due to the state of the track? I guess you’d have to ask Tasracing who were in charge of the refurbishment of the course proper. They have f**ked it […]
Ready for his next chapter – but just what will that chapter be? A mixed Group of owners including Melbourne Cup winning owner Cameron Bain (Knights Choice) and Michael Kirby, the man who paid the trainers share of the prizemoney and tried to trouser it, have this week sold the once highly promising galloper Without […]
William Pike has withdrawn as the feature guest jockey for the Cairns Cup weekend, and a tip goes with it. Pike has advised the club that the reason for his pulling out is that he has secured the mount on a horse that he views as a major Spring Carnival, and that is racing on […]
Anyone who has an interest in New Zealand racing of either code should be interested in this superb episode of the Guerin Report in which NZ’s pre-eminent racing journalist and commentator Mick Guerin explains the financial and governance dilemmas facing both codes on the shaky islands side of the ditch, asks the questions of the […]
I would have bet my life and my wife that the protest in race 4 at Eagle Farm would have been upheld. If I had I wouldn’t be here to write about it, and Maggie would be someone else’s sex slave (lucky them). How the hell did they dismiss that one? The leader veered straight […]
