Wouldn’t You Have Loved $12.50 in the Run About Antino?
Here is the in-play odds about Antino during the Toorak. Watch them and weep.
The Lost Farm
This is Uncle Sam’s manor. Or it used to be, until he lost the farm. Bid with confidence. Motivated seller, needs the cash. Good lawyers don’t come cheap. Especially the silks. Hey it’s only a house. Jesus was born in a barn. The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Backward Hats and the Tides That Turn – A Bit of Poetry of Hope on Guineas Day
A mustache is A backward hat For your face by Sam Kilkenny, the poet not the punter You find out who your friends are when you fall. Especially when you fall hard. Sam Kilkenny, the punter not the poet, must be learning that right now. A word of advice to the man, borrowed from Henry […]
Play It Again Sam
Dear REDACTED I am writing to let you know that in the coming days there may be media reporting of an issue that is linked to First Light Racing and other companies and individuals regarding the conduct of former Director Sam Kilkenny. Before I outline the details, I want to first personally assure you that […]
Red Lights Flash – How Do the HRNSW Stewards Explain This?
Elusive was having her first start for the Peter Rixon stable in yesterday’s 2nd round heat of the 3YO NDSW Breeders Challenge Fillies heat. Despite her excellent form including 2nds to Vic Oaks finalist Vague Beauty and to 2yoNSW Breeders and Vicbred Super Series runner-up Renewal at her past two starts, somehow the price setter […]
Sonny Boy Seaton Pulls a Swift One, and Someone Lands a Plunge
Team Grima pulled a beauty in the 10th race at Menangle today. Our good mate (self-declared) Seaton had 2 runners in the race, Argent Peak and Eagle Watch. He drove Argent Peak. It opened up at $1.45 and blew like a gale out to start at $3.00. Grima put Lleyton Green on Eagle Watch. This […]
Happy Monday For Some in the Bush
Hamilton wasn’t the only track that some nice bets were landed on Happy Monday. The punters got some at Corowa as well. Race 1 – Space Age $5.00 into $2.10 Race 2 – Quamby $17.00 into $9.00 Race 3 – Rosie’s Prophecy $8.00 into $4.40 Race 4 – Dance Enuff $1.80 into $1.33 Race 6 […]
The Crow Eaters Come to Hamilton and Pull Off a Plunge
On Monday South Australian trainers Sue and Jason Jaensch made the long trek over the border from Murray Bride to Hamilton with their former Team Hayes trained maiden galloper Hadar, and took plenty of the folding stuff in their pockets with them to keep them company on the drive. They unloaded it in the 3rd […]
All Horse Players Die Broke – A Long Read For When You’re Sitting on the Dunny or Riding on a Train
It is during the last race meeting at Saratoga, and one evening I am standing out under the elms in front of the Grand Union Hotel thinking what a beautiful world it is, to be sure, for what do I do in the afternoon at the track but grab myself a piece of a 10-to-l […]
The Weird and Wacky World of the SA Trots – And How the World’s Gone Mad.
Race 1 at Gawler yesterday served as another demonstration of the ineptness of the people currently running harness racing in South Australia, and why they need a good kick up the arse. Or so it seemed anyway. The race was a 2yo trot. Now anyone who has been around the trots for five minutes or […]