Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well it would be a damn good trick to run a night meeting or trials at Atherton, because the track doesn’t have any lights, and it’s pretty hard to see in the dark, even on a moonlit night. There weren’t any night time trials at Atherton on Saturday anyway. I was there, and the whole […]
What a shame it is that jockey Scott Sheargold did not make the trip to ride at the Atherton race meeting. I had travelled the hour there from my home at Frank Lodge specifically hoping to meet and interview him about a certain matter that is very topical in the tropical regions of racing right […]
Some people claim that jockeys are stupid, but I have never believed them. When you meet and get to know good people like Jimmy Orman, Laura Cheshire, Dale Missen, Ian Toward, Russell Maddocks, Whopper Stephens, Lyle Plumb Snr (my dead heat with Doc Chapman for favourite seniors gold card holder in racing, for very different […]
A few years back I started writing about a Queensland racing identity named Wayne Innes. Innes was a popular figure at the track, a racehorse owner, sponsor, corporate Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) member, a regular in the exclusive Chairman’s room, and the best friend of his personal racehorse trainer Kelly Schweida. But there was something […]
Ben Currie and John O’Shea were convicted of the identical offence of presenting a horse to race when it had traces of the prohibited substance Methamphetamine in its system. O’Shea’s horse also had amphetamine in its system. Currie’s did not. O’Shea had two previous convictions for dishonesty to Stewards on his record at the time […]
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 […]
Haven’t these horses improved since they have come here? This has gone to another level altogether. It’s spread eagling them! That’s what the Clifford Park caller said about Point the Wagon, the winner of race 5 at Toowoomba on Saturday night, and wasn’t he right too. Point the Wagon was a 14 start maiden coming […]
I’m not silly enough to bet at Toowoomba, so what follows are not the questions of a punter talking through his kick, but rather the serious misgivings of a race watcher and writer who can smell something off when they can see it. There are my questions. Are they all just taking the piss out […]
Ever wondered how to make a Denis style special drench? It’s as easy as a quick trip to Woolies, thirty seconds on the scales, a minute stirring the bucket, and a minute and a half pouring down your horse’s nose. Here is the magic recipe. 160 grams Brown Sugar 160 grams Bicarbonate of Soda* […]
What’s going on out there at Toowoomba since Ben Currie went on holiday? Every meeting held there we seem to witness these ill-explained major form turnarounds that by and large defy logic and reasonable belief. Just take a look at the three at Clifford Park on Friday. Form Reversal 1 – Race One 870 metres Won […]
