Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Silver Wedding was backed from $5.00 int0 $2.45 to win the second last race at Eagle Farm yesterday. It didn’t. The horse missed the start by 6-8 lengths and went down by a length. A tragedy beaten it was. Or was it? Silver Wedding is the horse in the black and gold, second from the […]
Fresh up from another great day last weekend the Doctor is back to give us even more winners. They reckon fire signs are in for a good year in 2026. Let’s hope so. Good luck and have a winning day.
Guest article by The Miner What should have been a simple, joyful New Year’s Eve outing instead became a case study in how Australia’s major sporting institutions continue to lose touch with ordinary families. When jockey Craig Newitt took his family to Flemington Racecourse for New Year’s Eve celebrations, the expectation was modest: kids’ activities, […]
Santa is watching Dr Georgia Whiting do the form for Caulfield today. The man in red is confident that the naked tipster is going to fill out Xmas stockings today.\ Ho ho ho!
Have a look at this race at Rockhampton during the week. The track was a slow 5. It looked it too. This race was a mixed Maiden/Class 1. They didn’t look to go that hard. But the winner broke Chinny Boom’s track record. Smashed it in fact. Or so they say. If this race was […]
Waikato Thoroughbred Racing (WTR) has today revealed the greenfield site of its proposed new super center for thoroughbred training and racing. The plan, first mooted in the 2020 Messara Report, involves selling the Te Rapa, Cambridge and Waipa racecourses and surrounding land, and pouring the proceeds into constructing am ultra modern racing and training facilities […]
ATC chairman Tim Hale told the club’s 11,000 members in a note in October that it was “solvent, operating normally, with strong cash reserves and is asset-rich”, backed by property “potentially worth billions”. “The club’s financial stability and operational capability are not in question,” he said at the time. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/racing/racing-nsw-sacks-board-of-australian-turf-club-appoints-administrator-20251215-p5nnqn.html ATC Chairman Tim Hale says […]
Appointment Of An Administrator To The Australian Turf Club Racing NSW today announced the appointment of an Administrator to conduct the affairs of the Australian Turf Club (ATC). This decision follows an extensive and exhaustive Show Cause process, together with multiple formal joint meetings between the Boards of Racing NSW and the ATC. These steps […]
So much for the QRIC edict banning children from entering or remaining in the stabling area and tie-up stalls at the trots on safety grounds. If the Stewards responsible for the policy refuse to enforce it then the whole thing becomes a joke. Until of course a kid gets kicked or trampled on, and then […]
Former Group 1 winning international jockey Robbie Fradd deserves high praise for the splendid work he has been doing for junior riders since being appointed as apprentice mentor earlier this year. Fradd seems to attend every race meeting he can in South-East Queensland, and is a vocal advocate for apprentices in the Stewards room helping […]
