Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Cans of Rum and Coke at Doomben yesterday $13 each. $312 per carton. Fair go…. A plain Four and Twenty meat pie $10.50. Give me a break…. Fair dinkum. A man might have to start taking a cut luncg and a thermos to the track. Is it any wonder hardly anyone goes to the midweek […]
A Pennsylvania owner-trainer has sued Penn National Gaming and several employees of Penn National Race Course for alleged negligence over a starting gate incident that she said led to a horse suffering a severe injury and subsequent euthanasia. Erin Carpio, who owned and trained then 6-year-old Sir Steele, alleges the gelding was injured after his […]
‘Racin’ Nathan Exelby’s new career as the CEO of the Ipswich Turf Club has certainly begun with a bang, following the news that disgraced former mayor turned jailed sex offender Paul Pisasale spent Saturday afternoon in the VIP tent at the Ipswich Cup race day as an invited guest of the club committee, of which […]
There is no such place in Queensland as McKinley. The town where they raced on the weekend – the one that is home to the Walkabout Creek pub that featured in Crocodile Dundee – used to be called Mackinlay after the first white man to discover the local river, but since a change of name […]
Tyler Lesight had been outed for 4 weeks for calling fellow jockey Wanderson D’Avila a black c**t. It was a remark made for chivalrous reasons, but the way it was delivered was wrong. Everyone knows that D’Avila is a c**t. A wife beating, woman exploiting and then abandoning, violent but cowardly no good piece of […]
It seems rather harsh asking this question given that the margin was only a pimple, but skilled jockeys know the difference between a walrus and a whisket, and Nathan Day’s no slug. It appeared to me that down the straight Day looked perfectly content to run second, and got somewhat of a shock when his […]
The job of Stewards has become much more difficult in the modern age, for the multitude of ways that races can be rorted is so much larger than it used to be, and no longer necessarily involves winning or getting a favorite beat. The growth of head to head betting on Betfair has changed the […]
There are superbly bred blueblood thoroughbreds everywhere you look at Royal Ascot, but none have as fine a pedigree as the winner of the Kensington Palace Stakes for fillies Doha. This filly by Sea The Stars out of Treve would have been worth an astronomical sum at the yearling sales had her breeder the Emir […]
I wonder if the crowds in the Caribbean acted like this back in the days when Scobie Breasley trained four Barbados Gold Cup winners? These maniacs wouldn’t have wanted a horse to run off to the outside on the turn would they? Bloody idiots.
Remember Oakleigh, the nag with form of a dray cart donkey until its trackword rider hit it with a jigger at the instruction of the trainer to spark it up? Well those devices may be cruel and inhumane but they obviously work, for yesterday in Longreach the horse whose form before being jolted read 35: […]
