Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hanging Rock is one of the most picturesque race tracks in Australia. It is also the scene of one of the most disturbing fictional events in our nation’s literary history, the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls and their teacher while out on a summer’s picnic on Valentine’s Day. Most quaddie punters at the Rock […]
Lachie Manzelmann is a talented driver, but unfortunately he is a most reckless and dangerous one too, as he proved in the first race at Redcliffe last night. The further question is whether there is something else behind his crazy drive in this race as well. There were two chances in the first last night, […]
There is something wrong about this race. A few things actually. I don’t know what they mean. They are just odd. I will list them by number. 1. Chris Barsby’s Call Will they catch Rancho Man? Will they catch Rancho Man? Repetition is not Chris Barsby’s go. Was this code? If so, to who? 2. […]
Here is how you pull a monster Tuesday night plunge off, Maltese style. First you get your husband Frank a trainer’s license, and pretend that he actually prepares the horses, when in reality everyone knows that just like the Belinda-Luke baloney it’s you who really does. Next you get Frank to nominate 4 of your […]
Now it comes on the spring of 1931, after a long hard winter, and times are very tough indeed, what with the stock market going all to pieces, and banks busting right and left, and the law getting very nasty about this and that, and one thing and another, and many citizens of this town […]
Saintly Rose was backed from $15 into $10 in the third at Terang today. She was home at the 100m mark. And then this happened. Is it any wonder that all horse players die broke?
Race 8 at Albion Park last night. The pre-post favourite is owned in by our old mates from Summit Bloodstock and Luke McCarthy, and is trained and driven by the McCarthy’s man in the north Ricky Thurlow, all three mates of the Albion Park CEO. It’s name is Shadow Minister, and it is drawn in […]
We have written on numerous occasions about the extraordinary winning strike rate of horses owned by former Harness Racing NSW boss Rex Horne and his friend and sometime trainer Leon Jurd when they backed as if there is no tomorrow. In these stories we’ve also noted how rare it is for horses owned by the […]
Following out story yesterday we were contacted by an elder from the Edge Hill area in Cairns who suggests that we were only half right in our story about well known punter and commission agent turned First People’s rights activist Uncle Milty Doyle being from the Fraser Island People. The Edge Hill man, who […]
Well known Brisbane commission agent, punter and one time officer of the law Milton Doyle has become the 21st century face of reconciliation, and good on him too. The word around the tracks is that the recent birth of Doyle’s beautiful grandson was like a St Paul on the road to Damascus moment for the […]
