Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The drivers at Wagga were overjoyed to experience the hospitality in between races provided by the club’s much disliked CEO Greg Gangle at its first meeting his ban on the generous Mrs Christine Clement buying food for the drivers and trainers room. They got to share a packet of biscuits instead. Great work Gangles. When […]
How do the committee of Globe Derby come to the conclusion that the club can pay its debts as they fall due? Globe Derby owes almost $4.5 m It has just under $1.8 million to its name, if you believe the Directors of the club. I don’t. Suspend disbelief and assume that they are telling […]
We have received the other bits of the Globe Derby Annual Report, and we were spot on. They are insolvent, or all but. You can read as well I can. K. Seymour’s loan agreement expires in February. Unless Seymour gives the club an extension – and I can’t think of any reason that he should, […]
Hi Guys, It looks like I now have to fight Qantas for a refund for my planned trip to Auckland Friday night. HRNZ in their mysterious way of thinking advised that it ‘is not in our interests to have the best horse racing’ so leave Copy That out of the field. The attached story tells […]
So the field of runners for the Inter Dominion Pacing Championship 2022 has been set, and here they are. We’ve put a red line through all the ones that can’t win, which is most. It leaves us with horses from just 7 stables as live chances. Six are from the Emma Stewart aka Clayton Tonkin […]
This is the Bolt For Brilliance, the famous Kiwi end to end and off and away Test Match nude run. How many Aussie streakers get the other end of the birthday suit dash without tackled or shoulder charged? Not many, if any. Brad Reid did. He bred the champion trotter that’s named after his seminal […]
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, / Gang aft agley (often go astray) – Robert Burns Kiwi drivers Blair Orange and Gavin Smith has it all worked out in the 9th at Addington today. Orange’s was on A Bettor You, the odds on favourite from the Mark Purdon stable at $1.80. It was […]
We’ve managed to get a partial copy of the Globe Derby (SAHRC) annual report, and the picture is dire. The club has lost more than $800 000 in the past year. That takes it losses over the last 2 years to almost a million dollars. It has just under $1.8 million in cash, but owes […]
I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count up how old trainer Tony Peacock and his stable driver Brian Gath are. I think if you counted backwards you’d up somewhere around the time that Ned Kelly was hung. Peacock and Gath are no Neds. They are too smart to end up on the end […]
Number one issue – we need a Code of Conduct, and we need it urgently. Now we are a sport Greg, and there are three pillars to sport: fair play, integrity, and doing your best. I’m worried about integrity, really worried about integrity. I want to make it very clear to everybody that I am […]
