Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I Cast No Shadow is a smart pacer, there is no doubt about that, but is he really good enough to run 1.4 seconds faster than three-time Australian Horse of the Year and triple Inter Dominion winner Im Themightyquinn to break the track record at Albion Park over 1660m? First-up since April? In a trial? […]
Boncel Benjamin won the Inter Dominion last year. Not long before that it was running in claimers. I don’t need to tell that rock n’ roll Jill – Jason Grimson – trained it do I? Jill could train a three legged donkey 14-year-old camel to win the Miracle Mile if you asked him to. The […]
Forbury Park is a famous trot track in Dunedin in New Zealand’s south, which from 1890 until the decision of the new NZ Racing Board to close it down last year was the spiritual home of harness racing in Otago. For over 12 months now the track has been sitting idle and unused. Not any […]
Earlier this week we published a story based on information gleaned from a story written by journalist Cameron Barclay and published in the Otago Daily Times. In our story we repeated the assertion made by Mr Barclay – who was present at the Stewards inquiry into the relevant rule breach hearing – that Jones had […]
Ben Yole had 60 of the 99 runners in Hobart last night in the three races he contested. That’s just ridiculous. What is going on when he brings horses over to race in Victoria is even worse. Chainsaw had two runners last night. The first one Miss Tyler was driven as dead as a doornail. […]
Poor old Jill Grimson. He runs up to QLD chasing diamonds and hands, and his Sydney stable falls to pieces. Since he’s been gone his horses at home have suddenly lost a leg, and mysteriously transformed into camels. There is a lesson in this. Either Jill is the greatest trainer in Australia as we all […]
The consummate professional. If Bon-Bon spent less time feeding his face and more time studying the form he might actually be competitive one day. A couple of months ago Jason Bonnington, ever the smart arse and the boot licker, for reasons of his own decided to go the bash on peterprofit.com and yours truly on […]
The word out of Victoria is that many good judges hold grave concerns about the integrity of the last race at Echuca on Wednesday night. In fact they think it was a fix. I do too. So why don’t the Stewards? Here is the background. There are four horses in the betting. They are: Number […]
Some people say that Woodend Beach trainer Matt Purvis doesn’t give his horses a bit of the old Tally Ho treatment, and do you know what, I’d love to believe them. I can’t though, because everything points in the opposite direction. Victor Bravo is the perfect example. Until Purvis and a group of others bought […]
There are 8 hours in a Stewards working day, which adds up to 16 hours in two days, minus paid mornind and afternooin tea breaks which brings the day down to 7.6 hours, or 15.2 over 2. To conduct 59 stable inspections in those 2 days would mean that an inspection was carried out every […]
