Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
