Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sometimes I look around and shake my head and wonder if Richard Callander and I are living in the same world. Today is one of them. Richie wrote what you see above in his Racenet column this week. It is an absolute load of piffle, ridiculous nonsense, and tripe. His argument appears to be that […]
Racing media identity Bruce Clark has in recent times turned to trying to be racing’s sage. Starting from a false premise that racing is half rooted, each week in his Racenet column Clark tells us how to fix all the problems that we don’t actually have. It’s fairy tale stuff that happens to some people […]
The picture above is an extract from Ray Thomas’s column on Racenet todays. It’s his quotes of the week. I never knew Clayton Gallagher had hung up his riding boots and taken up training Everest winners. He can’t have, ‘cos he rode at Mudgee yesterday. It must be a dual license. As for GK’s former […]
Have you read Adman Hamilton’s latest polemic on the state of harness racing, and how to fix it? Adman says that we need to modernize the sport by turning it in to Trot Rod city. Trot races take too long he reckons. Back in the day a study showed that 30% of air time on […]
Ben Yole always wanted to be famous. Soon he is going to be. For all the wrong reasons. Good on ya Chainsaw. You’ve killed Tasmanian harness racing. Guess what though? The ABC know who you’ve bribed too. Gee I wonder who told them? There must have been a mole in the ranks. Maybe two. Hey […]
All hell has broken out at the Launceston trots tonight. It is Sunday the 19th of March. The ABC have sent a film crew to the Launceston trots. They are after Ben Yole, for employment relations and animal welfare breaches. He is good for all of them too. Yole is panicking. He has directed his […]
It’s been about seven weeks since Bon-Bon wrote his last masterpiece, and gee we’ve missed him. Just like Tim Tzsyu missed Tony Harrison yesterday. Richard Branson didn’t say if you ‘reach higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you ever dreamed’, as out man Jason claims. What he said was that if you […]
Just when you thought racing politics couldn’t get any murkier. It was industry gossip late last year that Racing NSW wouldn’t pay rich strapper bonuses, paid to the handler of the winning horse, if the winning trainer was licenced outside of New South Wales. The common reaction was, to paraphrase, ‘surely not?’, considering that for […]
It takes me back to a story my grandmother told me about Jesus and Barabbas. Jesus is standing on one side, Barabbas is standing on the other side, and the people have to choose which one of them could go free. Some people started yelling, “Barabbas! Barabbas! Barabbas!” Then so many people were doing that […]
