The Clerk of the Course At the ‘Bool Rides Like Bailey Wheeler Does When He’s Not Trying
For those that missed the first race at Warrnambool… 🎥 @Racing pic.twitter.com/SWhJRZCcJb — SENTrack (@SEN_track) May 2, 2024
The Activists Roll Out to ‘Bool in Force – All Ten of Them
Is that a big bad sail sticking up there? Matches the message I guess. There are 10 000 people inside the gates of Warrnambool having a ball of a time on the fang, punt and piss. Standing outside are 10 middle-aged people being uptight, sipping Kobucha water, and telling them that they are bums. Anyone […]
Nick Walsh Throws a Positive Swab – And Gets a Slap Over the Wrist With a Wet Bus Ticket
Now trainer Nick Walsh, pictured with Alfie back in his days as a young gun rodeo star Nick Walsh is a young Rockhampton gallops trainer and horseman in his mid-twenties, who in the few years since he started training has been leading winners in at an average strike rate 3 in every 10 starters, and […]
Ooh Ah – Ciarion Maher Pulls the Oldest Weight Trick in the Book
The chances of Stern Idol ever running in the Grand Annual Steeple at the ‘Bool today were always 100-1, for the reasons that we wrote about early in the week, namely that the champion middle-distance jumper couldn’t get the 5.5km over 33 jumps trip of the Annual running down a well on roller skates. Ciaron […]
Thoroughbred Alliance Letter to Racing QLD and the QRIC re Track Ratings
“The Thoroughbred Alliance met today to discuss the ongoing concerns the participant associations have with our grass tracks in S.E.Q, highlighted by recent questionable track ratings where downgrades have happened on race-days. These are certainly not isolated instances, it’s been an ongoing problem for many years. We fully understand how difficult it is for clubs […]
It’s a Strange World When a Supposedly Top Shelf Turf Track Can’t Race Two Weeks in a Row
The Sunshine Coast track was at one time one of the best in Queensland. It was great in the wet or the dry. Sadly ever since they spend nearly $20 million on the poly track and new stables it hasn’t been so much good as crap. I don’t know why. Race cards have been abandoned […]
The Million Dollar 2yo Race at the Gold Coast Under Lights – Will They or Won’t They? – Someone Needs to Make the Hard Call
There are 25 days to go before the new $1 000 000 Magic Millions sales race is due to be run uder lights on the turf at the Gold Coast. All the dining tables are advertised as being sold out. It may end up being a very lonely and boring meal. Those in the know […]
The Rumble in the Bundall Bumble – Aka the Punch Up at the Goldie Races That Nobody Saw, Because They Were All in the Toilet at the Same Time
Jockeys Noel Callow and Jai Williams exchanged harsh words after they crossed the line at the end of race 6 at the Gold Coast on Saturday arvo, and for good reason too, at least from Williams perspective. He was on the second favorite in the Freedman colors made famous by Mummify. It’s name was Flag […]
Stern Idol is a Certainty to Win the Brierley Steeple – But He Couldn’t Win the Grand Annual if They Gave Him Half a Furlong Start
The imported steeplechaser Stern Idol is one of the biggest horses in training, standing at a massive more than 17 hands tall and weighing in at around 550 kilos. This French giant has been the dominant jumper in Australia since he arrived at Maher stable door around 2 years ago, and is the warm favorite […]
As the Light Starts to Fade on His Career, the Amazing Fab’s Cowboy Does it Again – and Chalks Up Win Number 54
I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trailA starry night, a campfire lightThe coyote callAnd the howling winds wailSo I’ll ride out to the old sundown – Thin Lizzy The Queensland wonder horse of the bush Fab’s Cowboy may be Gold Card eligible at 12-years of age, and under the compulsory retirement rules the […]