Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In recent weeks enthusiasts have followed intensley as Leap To Fame attempted to capture Australia’s ‘Big Three’ – A G Hunter Cup, Inter Dominion and Miracle Mile – since the latter was added to the calendar in 1967. Initially Leap To Fame was declared to be on an historic journey as he aimed to become […]
Here's how @BrittanyTGraham is playing tonight's $1,000,000 Miracle Mile! Join the team on Sky Thoroughbred Central for extended coverage (Races 3-9) 🐎@ClubMenangle @HRNSW_Harness @tabcomau pic.twitter.com/BsGaZmOQMa — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) March 8, 2024
Why do racing writers from the mainstream media – in particular Murdoch press gumby Tom Biddington – continue to call Todd Balfour’s assault on a race day official a ‘dacking’, implying that pulling the Compliance Officers pants down and exposing his genitals for all the world to see while he was working to keep drunk […]
I Swallowed a FLY !!! pic.twitter.com/q6DogQ66uY — Paul Campbellscomments.com (@vege07) March 1, 2024
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Many in the racing industry are wondering how the Tasmanian based former Asian Racing Journal columnist Bren O’Brien has managed to fund his immediately prodigious start-up racing website the straight.com.au, and how he has obtained the funds to employ and pay a suite of staff that includes racing journalists, website designers, accountants, and admin workers. […]
Everyone’s favorite racing media personality Jason Bonnington has been absent from our screens since being forced to walk the plank from his job with HRV toward the end of last year, and a lot of readers have been inquiring after his health and wondering where he’s been. Well it’s now our great pleasure to be […]
As you the reader will know, we single-handed broke the story of the QRIC’s cuts to the number of vets and swab attendants on duty at Queensland race meetings and ran it hard, calling the integrity body’s actions every name under the sun, all of them which fit. After we’d exposed the plan and told […]
Adman Hamilton, again writing on the HRNZ website, claims that Leap To Fame is attempting to become the first horse to win the Inter Dominion, Hunter Cup and Miracle Mile in a single campaign. He’s having a bad day is our Mr Hamilton, for he’s got it wrong again. Leap To Fame will not be […]
Adman Hamilton reports on the HRNZ website that the Barry Purdon trained pacer Sooner The Better didn’t qualify for the Group 1 Chariots of Fire at Menangle by running 4th in the Hondo Grattan Stakes last Saturday night, and that the horse will have to try to qualify via the Paleface Adios in a fortnight. […]
