Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
… NSW trainer Brett Cavanough has his horse Burdekin residing at the stables of disqualified trainer Todd Austin, he of the infamous Birdsville jigger jolt fame? … Austin’s wife Toni Austin, whose 12 month disqualification for involvement in the jigger affair has been strapping for Cavanough? … Todd Austin has been spotted working at the […]
According to the rumblings we are hearing emanate out of Brisbane, all may not be well in the house of everyone’s favorite syndicator KO Racing. Or should that now be KO & KC Racing Group Pty Ltd, as it seems to be known these days with Kirk Cockburn joining Kobie O’Brien in the ownership group. […]
A mate of mine owns this galloper that early in its career was a very promising 2yo who won 3 of his first 4 starts and ran 6th in a Group 3 in the other, before rounding off his first prep with a deseperately unlucky 6th in a Group 1 after the last minute stand-in […]
By Ray See So, if you are wondering what happened to the third race at Beaudesert today, a Maiden Handicap over 1650 metres, it was abandoned for safety reasons following stewards and jockeys consulting, after two horses slipped near the 1100 metre crossing in the second race, which had also been run over 1650 metres. […]
How hard is it to read a scale of deductions table correctly? Prideofthebigfish (what a name) was $4.00 in the betting when it was pulled out of race 5 at Boweb as a late scratching on the weekend. Unless I am totally blind rather than just partuially vision impaired, that should have meant deductions of […]
Aaron Bain Racing’s rapid rise in South Australian thoroughbred racing is set to go to another level with the move to the former Lindsay Park property in Angaston. The historic horse haven in the Barossa Valley, made famous by Colin Hayes as Lindsay Park and then Kildalton Park with the McEvoy’s will be known as […]
If you had been silly enough to take the $1.35 about Aquaholic in the 2-year-old Maiden at Ipswich yesterday you would have started feeling nauseous at the 1000 metre mark when he started pulling his head off, and become more and more ill with every metre further the race went. Aquaholic pulled it self into […]
Everyone’s favorite syndicator KO Racing purchased the tried racehorse Maotai from an Inglis online sale in December for $90 000. Since that time it has been attempting to syndicate its $90k purchase in small shares worth a total of $150 000, continuing the KO Thoroughbred practice of heavily marking up the price of horses that […]
24/5/24 Dear Archie It’s not even midday on a Friday and punters around the country are lubing up for a regular weekend of pineapple insertion when going in search of backing a winner. Gatton race 1 is a maiden over 860m and has a raging odds on favourite named Loaded Gun, which has been $2.20 […]
ATA has addressed the issue again with RQ/QRIC – horses that dual accept and at least one of the races is a Feature (any race $75k or more), trainers have until 5pm on accept day to remove the horse from the Feature race otherwise it MUST run in the feature (even if an emergency in […]
