Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
‘Cause people like to talk Lord, don’t they love to talk But when they turn out the lights ….. Charlie Rich, No-one knows what goes on behind closed doors Peter Gleeson – ‘Gleeso’ – is a well known greyhound racing identity, and a passionate supporter of the sport. His Mum is a dog trainer, his […]
Alliteration is a stylistic device employed by writers and poets to press a point. I just used it. It’s when you string words together with the same consonant to make a machine gun sort of sound when you read it. See, I did it again, twice. Poets to press a point. Make a machine gun […]
Have you read Ben Dorries hastily written personal remembrance of Shane Warne? It’s bloody disgraceful. Dorries is disrespectful to Hookesy, who died in terrible circumstances, and he makes Warnie sound like a wanker too, which he most decidedly wasn’t, and even if he was the man is a legend and he is dead and it’s […]
I wrote earlier this week about the tantalising future clash of the three great 5-year-old pacing titans, Ride High, Self Assured and Lochinvar Art. There was something I did’t tell you. Lochinvar Art will be racing for a new stable. His trainer/driver David Moran (pictured at top) is about to be disqualified from the sport […]
28 July 2015 Harness Racing New South Wales (HRNSW) Stewards concluded an Inquiry today into the betting activities of licensed Trainer and Driver Mr David Moran, including a bet placed in Race 4 at the Leeton Harness Meeting on 30 January 2015, a race in which Mr Moran was engaged as a driver. Mr Moran […]
I would smile like the Cheshire Cat too if I had accidentally stumbled upon the golden cross. In fact, I do, because I did. How lucky is Darrel Graham who I used to play footy against as a kid, and reunited with later in life? How lucky am I? In 4-legged harness racing the golden […]
Prior to arriving in Victoria, Spirit Of St Louis had won five of his 14 Aussie starts including victories in Queensland’s 4YO Championship and a heat of the Inter Dominion series. But nothing he’d achieved before the Bendigo Cup could have helped predict what’s transpired over the past 17 days. These three regional features staged […]
Racing writer Bruce ‘Snowy’ Clark is one of life’s great conundrums. Clark is a hugely talented wordsmith when he is on song and trying – which is about one week in ten – but his ability is subsumed by his lack of objectivity, and his slavish devotion to crafting stories that keep him in the […]
I recall asking the former Warwick Farm trainer Mick Mair on his arrival to his new Sunshine Coast base at Corbould Park, the very probing question along the lines of “how is it going?” Probably expecting a similar banal response to a half volley opener outside off stump. “Mate I came here with nothing – […]
DIFFERENCES in what an alleged sexual assault victim told police when they first met her and what police then put in a crime report have been highlighted on the second day of horse trainer Michael James Mair’s trial. Mair, 67, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage woman at a Little Mountain home […]
