Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Queensland’s iron horse, the fabulous Fab’s Cowboy, took his career win tally to 51 when he smashed them in the Open Plate at Mt Isa on Saturday afternoon. Although I can’t find any records to confirm it, I believe from memory of a conversation with Fab’s trainer Billly Johnson a year or so ago that […]
Last night we asked the hard questions about the state of the Gold Coast track, and lo and behold this morning track manager Nevesh Ramdhani goes on radio to talk about it. A Cautious Approach, Or a New $63 Million Track With Major Problems? – Another New Twist in the Gold Coast Saga Sadly however […]
Everyone in racing knows Godolphin, the richest operation running around, owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the sixth wealthiest person in the world with assets worth somewhere between 14 and 18 billion (thousand million) dollars. With that sort of cash in his vault the Sheikh is the last person on earth that you’d […]
Racing QLD CEO Jason Scott yesterday announced that the Gold Coast will not race again on the recently laid multi million dollar course proper until the QTIS Jewels meeting on the 9th of March. That will mean that the highly expensive new turf surface will have been out of action for almost two months since […]
On his little listened to 4TAB radio show Press Room on Monday, the Brisbane no 2 race caller David Fowler dropped a suggestion that the time-honored, super popular Cairns Amateur race meeting may be at risk of not going ahead this year. No doubt the Bantam was basing his suspicions on the fact that the […]
2022 Melbourne Cup winner Gold Trip is currently favorite ahead of the Kiwi mare Campionessa to win Saturday’s Peter Young Stakes run over 1800m at Caulfield. I give him none. Gold Trip is now a 7-year-old stallion that has never won first-up in 8 attempts. He may well have run 2nd to Steinem when resuming […]
At 6 out of 1o the past ten TAB gallops meetings in QLD there have been six horses pre-race swabbed. The most samples taken were 7, which was only once at Rockhampton, which makes sense because milkshake drenching has long been rife amidst the trainers at the track by the Fitzroy River. Three was the […]
Have you ever seen a more magnificent looking animal than Justify in your life? I doubt that you ever could. In this interview with the Racing Post extracted below, Aidan O’Brien is discussing the great sires that Coolmore have had over the years. First he talks about the legends Danehill, Storm Cat, Galileo, and Desert […]
Can anyone tell me how the hell that jockey Scott Sheargold (pictured above behind the barriers yesterday at Cairns) went from riding a horse in race 1 at Cairns yesterday to working as barrier attendant for the rest of the day? Wouldn’t there be an ever so slight conflict of interest there? I am not […]
Can anyone in the world explain why a lowly Saturday night meeting at Toowoomba required six Stewards to officiate at it, when the main meeting of the weekend at Eagle Farm only needed four? An even better question is why six stewards could only oversee the pre-race swabbing of three runners on the card? Is […]
