A Tale of Three Sales – Told in Pictures – Part 2
A Tale of Three Sales – Told in Pictures – Part 3
A Tale of Three Sales – Told in Pictures – Part 4
Gee Trot People are a Charitable Bunch Aren’t We? – Live Observations On the Nutrien Standardbred Sale
I’m watching the Nutrien Sydney sales on webcast, because isn’t that what every Australian does on a Sunday? It’s a bit like watching the Bathurst car race. Goes forever, and you get about 3 exciting bits. They haven’t come yet. The sale has been shit. Low prices, big pass in rate. The auctioneers have been […]
SENSATION! – All Ben Yole Horses Scratched From Cranbourne Tonight – It’s a Cobalt Positive – And All Roads Lead Back to the Summit
In a complete sensation, every Ben Yole trained runner has been scratched from Cranbourne tonight, all six of them. The reason has not been publicised yet, but it’s because one of Yole’s horses has thrown a positive to Cobalt. The horse in question had recently been transferred to Yole from the stable of Aaron Bain […]
The Canary Makes Ned Kelly Look Honest
It seems that The Canary has managed to con 52 new owners into parting with their cold hard cash to become part of a 50 member syndicate. That seems like a good trick. How does 52 divide into 50? I guess you will never know without a proper disclosure statement, which ain’t something that Andrew […]
A Picture Tells a Thousand Words – But a Spreadsheet Can Show a Whole Lot More`
This is a spreadsheet of the top ten trainers and drivers in QLD over the past ten years. You can’t see it yet, but it tells a lot of tales. Tales about match fixing charges, license bans, stable changes, cobalt, stewards, coppers, lag merchants, TCO2 and a whole lot more. The full picture will blow […]
The Canary Tries to Pull Off Yet Another Syndication Rort Scam and Stooge
We have written on numerous occasions about Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald, the unregistered NZ trot syndicator who operates outside the law and rips unsuspecting innocent punters off blind. Here is yet another example. The Canary – through the Off N Gone syndicate that he owns and manages – has been offered 10 percent of a […]
Jason Grimson Morphs Into Han Solo – But Will the Empire Ever Strike Back?
Exactly a week before yesterday the imported 4YO mare Princess Leia had sat 3 fence and gone like a mule in finishing fifth. She has every chance, and was just plain ordinary. Her final splits were 28.62 and 27.9,0 for a personal mile rate of 1.54.86 Yesterday at Menangle the same mare ripped around the […]