Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Birch: “What if I said your vigour inside the final 200 metres was just not at an acceptable level, to racing fans or stewards?” Avdulla: “That’s your opinion and I don’t agree with it.” Birch: “It’s a very important opinion because we sit this side of the table.” Avdulla: “I understand that, but that’s your […]
Michael Bryant is best known as the equine chiropractor – known in the fame a muscle man – who worked with Peter Moody Mark 1 and tended to Black Caviar throughout most of her career. More recently he has been working with Sunshine Coast trainers like Dick Vandke and continuing the golden run of success […]
I didn’t know that the NSW Chief Steward was a District Court judge, and I wasn’t aware that he was an expert on defamation law either. Which is no surprise, because he is not. Defamation is one of the most discrete areas of specialisation in the law, and no more than 2-3 percent of solicitors […]
And so it begins. Does anyone remember the series of stories I published last year on the subscription site archiebutterfly.com about the Sally Snow affair? For those who don’t, or who didn’t read it, I wrote that the reasons for the sacking of Sally Snow from her role as the senior odds-setter for the TAB […]
Oops, did I say Gaita Pullicino? Sorry, that was a slip of the tongue. Phil Westbury trains the rising 9-year-old South Australian maiden Althegirlsinmylife who went 50m starts without a single win, and boasting only a pair of seconds at Kapunda and Port Pirie to his record doesn’t he? That’s what the form guide says […]
The Concreter claims to have been the pioneer of video recording of jump outs held at South-East Queensland race tracks, and despite the competing claims made by at least one other well-known racing identity turned trot-devotee, we believe the big man from the foothills of Mt Tibrogargan’s assertions, not that it matters a jot to […]
Race one at Toowoomba yesterday, a 3-year-old Maiden Plate run over the unusual distance of 870 metres, was one of the strangest races I have seen for quite a while, a really, really queer one. There were four horses in the betting. The topweight Calculated Risk, trained by Craig Smith at Roma, was steady in […]
