Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
So this is how Ben Dorries, the golden boy of QRIC and supposedly Queensand’s premier racing writer – neophyte is a better word – sees racing. A jockey stops riding and sits up without any cause whatsoever at the 50m mark on a horse and costs his horse – and the punters who backed it […]
I don’t mean to pick on Jason Bonnington, for I have never met the bloke and have nothing against him personally. It’s just that he speaks utter crap with such authority that I fear that unsuspecting punters might start to mistake his elevated levels of self-confidence for competence, and start believing the rubbish he spouts, […]
“Upon further investigation it was established that the vehicle towing the barriers was in contact with an electric fence which may have been sending a small current through the metal sections of the starting stalls. “Stewards ordered club officials to rectify the issue and were satisfied to proceed with the meeting. “Upon further review of […]
We will set the issue of the self-proclaimed ‘expert’ sporting analogist Jason Bonnington’s utter humiliation of himself by wrongly declaring the Hagler-Hearns 1985 world middleweight title bout a 12 round slug fest in the Sun-Herald yesterday aside (it actually went 3 round, and ended in a TKO), and instead focus on the nonsense he spouted […]
If a harness writer is going to employ boxing metaphors to try and tell a story about the trots, then it would help greatly if they actually knew anything about boxing, or checked their facts. Marvellous Marvin Hagler and Tommy ‘the Hitman’ Hearns didn’t trade blows for 12 rounds in their 1985 fight – immortalized […]
I like taking note of quotes from smart men too. In racing, they are generally men who can count. After all, it’s a game of numbers and percentages isn’t it? A reduction in turnover from $160 million to $60 million isn’t a loss of 60%. It’s a drop of 62.5%. A 60% reduction would have […]
See that fella aged 50-something walking down Flinders Street in Melbourne with a big grin on his face and his tongue stuck firmly in his cheek? That’s Adam Hamilton. He doesn’t really thing that Jason Grimson is not harness racing’s most amazing trainer. Hamilton is just taking the piss. Just like you and I do, […]
A number of my mates vouched opinions that I had interpreted Richard Callendar’s recent cryptic tip about a Melbourne jockey moving to Sydney incorrectly. I can now say that I did not. It was indeed Brett Prebble. Confession. I didn’t have a clue who Richie was talking about. I just worked out the riddle he […]
Now I am relating this second hand because I wasn’t watching Trots TV. (I would have been but I was out, on most important business). So this is a constructed recreation of what 3 independent parties have told me. At the conclusion of the last race, reporter Jason Bonnington asks the driver of the winner […]
Early talent is profitable talent. And, critically, the extraordinary evolution of training techniques, calendar amendments, and standardbreds generally, has all but ensured that juvenile and three-year-old racing won’t affect the chances of star pacers and trotters also going on. More than ever before, young gun babies are developing into open class heroes. These are the […]
