Biting the Hand That Feeds You – Alex Ashwood Does the Double Cross
The problem with young trot trainers who have early success in their career is often threefold. They start to genuinely begin to believe – delude themselves – that its their own innate magical ability to train horses that is winning them all these races, rather than the liquid in the needles that they are shooting […]
A Triple Dead Heat at the Trots Yesterday Throws Up a Mountain of Questions For the TAB
One of those rare things happened at the Bunbury Trots yesterday, a triple dead heat. It wasn’t for first place though, it was for fourth. The triple dead heat happened in race 2 when My Ultimate Joe, Nellie Babe and Go Widgie (sounds like a marital romp in the sack using pet names doesn’t) crossed […]
The Plunge of the Weekend Lands – At Mudgee of All Places – But Something About This Race Just Don’t Smell Right
There is something about race 2 at Mudgee that set off my rort radar. This race just isn’t quite right. The winner was backed from $61 into $6.50. Every time it firmed the top weight whose price was hovering around the $3.50 mark did too. Then started to blow like a gale and drifted out […]
Play Up Stuff Up – Big Time
Playup have asserted to the US District Court of Nevada that it’s former CEO Dr Laila Mintas has no right to sue it, and filed a document in the court record that they claims prove it. There is a problem with their claim. The document is a blank copy. It is neither dates nor signed […]
The Hustle – Albion Park’s Biggest Plunge in Years Lands
Northview Hustler is an 8-year-old Open Class pacer who coming into Friday’s return to Albion Park after the floods meeting had won ten races in Australia. Eight have them had been when he had led, and the other two had come when he sat behind the leader and used the sprint lane. He had never, […]
Dittman Takes the Plunge
I found this story on a really interesting website called Weekend Kings. They wrote it not me. I highly recommend taking a look at it, for there are some great stories there about racing. Mick Dittman was one of Australia’s most successful jockeys during his career, but the Queenslander always had a secret urge to […]
The Bid
Bob
The Sunday Roast Was Getting Cold on the Table, and It Was Raining, and They Didn’t Want to Get Wet – Slaughter at the Sunshine Coast, Brought to You by Brad Stewart and the Stipes
The integrity of Queensland racing has been questionable for a long time. Strange decisions are being made by Stewards. Swabs are rarer than a Penny Black stamp. Even stranger things are being ignored. Just when you thought the huge concerns couldn’t become any deeper, yesterday at the Sunshine Coast they did. Watch the replay […]