Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A number of trainers sent us the advice republished in the story below that they received from the ATA (QLD) branch about the dual acceptance rule at the gallops, seeking our opinion. It took us a few reads to get our head around the rule, but once we understood it properly we had to say […]
Trainer David Van Dyke accepted his smart mare My Snow Queen to start in two races on Saturday, the Listed Chief De Beers and a Benchnark 85. She drew a place as emergency in both, 3rd emergeny in the BM85 and 4th emergency in the Chief De Beers. The Chief De Beers was a feature […]
Southern Front finished tailed off first-up at Townsville on the 17th of May, and was beaten 114.84 lengths. It was vetted after the race and no significant abnormalities were found. SOUTHERN FRONT – eased down in the final straight and was distanced at the finish. A post-race veterinary examination of SOUTHERN FRONT revealed no significant […]
Henry Dwyer’s dreams of a King Charles III Stakes (formerly the Kings Stand) win with Asfoora are looking to be in a bit of trouble after the Victorian mare was comfortably beaten by 3 lengths into fourth place in the Temple Stakes at Goodwood overnight. Asfoora (in the light blue and black) had a comfortable […]
In the meantime, the leading greyhound trainer was first banned for life, then left free to train after an appeal while prominent horse trainer, Scott Brunton, was also banned after failing to pay a $1 million tax debt with the ATO. Concerns persist about the ongoing resourcing of priorities of ORI. Among those concerns are […]
This is the footage of the start of race 4 at Hughenden today. The full replay is below. Those things like prison bars that you see poking over the top of the horse ambulance are the stalls. It would have been nice to see the horses jump from them. Wake up to yourselves Stewards. Make […]
The Stewards report from Townsville on Friday was instructive as to which jockeys not to book if you want someone to ride your horse. Amanda Thomson accepted 5 mounts at the Mt Isa meeting on Saturday the 24th of April but didn’t turn up to take her mounts. Thomson was then stood down from riding […]
It seems we missed all the action out at the Mt Garnet meeting while we were away. The Stewards seem to have missed most of it too, for there is no mention at all of two of the more notable moments from the weekend. One was a trainer named Tom doing something many people have […]
The word out of Ascot, QLD this week is that at least one trainer who is walking around sporting cracked ribs and a busted eye believes that Eagle Farm was the scene of crime perpetrated on him last week by a former owner and one time bestie with whom the trainer had recently had an […]
BY John Lingard PUNTERS will be pleased to hear that Tommy Berry wasn’t disappointed with the plain effort of HUETOR in the G2 Hollindale Cup at the Sunshine Coast last Saturday. There wasn’t much else he could say after giving it no hope dropping back to last from a wide draw. He was quick to […]
