Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If this protest decision in the 5th at Mackay on Tuesday wasn’t a raw prawn left out in the sun for six days, then I don’t one that was. The horse in the yellow and olive diagonal stripes beats the one in the cream and brown on its outside by a nose. A protest if […]
Hamilton wasn’t the only track that some nice bets were landed on Happy Monday. The punters got some at Corowa as well. Race 1 – Space Age $5.00 into $2.10 Race 2 – Quamby $17.00 into $9.00 Race 3 – Rosie’s Prophecy $8.00 into $4.40 Race 4 – Dance Enuff $1.80 into $1.33 Race 6 […]
For reasons known only to the South Australians the photo-finish camera wasn’t working for the first two races at Friday’s meeting at Bordertown. As a result the Stewards ruled that the judge would determine the placings by eye. That became a whole lot harder than it might have been when two runners crossed the finish […]
We’re told that the crowd at Flemington on Saturday afternoon was so thin that you could driven a bulldozer through the lawn without any danger of knocking a person down. Sure it was an abysmal day weather wise, but the low turnout must still be a huge worry for the VRC as it heads in […]
Malcolm Turnbull had only been recently elected when Zumikon kicked off his racing career in February 2o16. Since that time the until Saturday afternoon 11-year-old had won 9 races from his 58 starts in an injury plagues career that once saw him spend 2 1/2 years off the track before coming back to win in […]
CEO Matthew Isaacs claims that Harness Racing Victoria delivers racing with world-class integrity programs. If Isaacs truly believes that he must be delusional. Last night was the richest night of racing on the Victorian harness racing calendar, with 12 finals of the VicBred Super Series run worth a combined total of $1.5 million. There were […]
You’d never know it by looking at him now, but Drew Crouch was once a professional athlete who was contracted to the Brisbane Bullets basketball team Like another elite Central Queensland athlete John Dyer – who once beat Greg Norman to win a QLD Open, but gave a professional career as a golfer away to […]
Take a look at the Rockhampton jump out winner in the picture above. Do you reckon that’s a chestnut filly by the name of Rosedale Miss? Or could it have been it’s stablemate Greylist, a grey gelding that won the first race at Mackay last Thursday week after being backed from $26 into $6? Note […]
On the 31st of July a chestnut gelding named Rosedale Miss trained by Tom Smith was entered in and won a jumpout at Rockhampton. The problem is that it wasn’t Rosedale Miss that ran in the trial. It was its grey coloured stablemate Greylist. Added note: Although Greylist is officially listed in the records as […]
Central QLD Senior Steward Tate Hudson hasn’t been seen at the races since Mackay Cup day more than a month ago. His absence from the track has sparked various rumors about phones, cones or getting the bone. Not that we’d repeat them of course. QLD’s friendliest Steward has probably just gone on a cruise. If […]
