Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Big news out of Victoria is that despite Nathan Jack and Mark Pitt’s big win on appeal on their criminal match fixing charge, the Cobram affair may not be over yet at all, and far from it. If you recall, Amanda Turnbull was arrested over Cobram race fix early in the piece on allegations that […]
The good news of the day is that Australia’s best three-year-old, the Queensland born and bred Leap to Fame, has finally received his invitation to race in the Rising Sun, three months after he should have been a shoo in to be the first horse invited. Given that my suspicion has long been that the […]
Given that the we’re right in the middle of the high-profile murder trial of the same name, the pacer Teacher’s Pet was the best named horse all night at Redcliffe on Wednesday, and quite possibly the omen bet of the century too when it took out the 2nd heat of the Trot Rods. Sadly the […]
The McDowell family of Allied Express fame have put a huge amount of money into harness racing over five decades, and won some real good races along the way too. Through the Allied Express company they are one of the biggest sponsors of the sport in NSW, and passionate devotees of it too, not that […]
Alex Ashwood was training winners at a rate of 30% plus up until a month ago. Something has happened though. From his last 25 starters Ashwood’s won only 3 races. Is it just bad luck? Or has Fed Ex stopped delivering bottles from America with funny labels to Bendigo?
At Globe Derby on Monday a horse called Giftedfromtheheart was the medium of a nation-wide betting plunge that saw it frim from $101 into $2.90. The moment that the betting opened they started coming out of trees to back the horse, and the money didn’t stop until they jumped. For a moment no-one could understand why. […]
There were 8 races run at Menangle yesterday afternoon, and this eight favourites. Four of them were odds on. Not one of the eight horses was pre-race blood tested. The average price of the runners that were swabbed prior to the race was $32.60. Below are the odds of the fave in betting in each […]
I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe Sydney’s leading reinsman Cameron Hart tried very hard on the new addition to the J. Grimson stable Brevity in this race. In fact it’s my opinion that he didn’t really try at all. Brevity is the one back in last place in the blue and gold […]
Lyell Creek? Maoris Idol? Sundees Sun? Yesterday’s news. Today it’s all about Lindy’s Love, the bonny little three year old filly who obliterated all world trotting records by running 1.48.0 on Tuesday at Menangle. What a filly, what a run. Wow. What’s that Mum? Do I reckon the times are right? Umm ….
Our biggest achievement of the past 12 months has undoubtedly been the completion and settlement of the two apartment projects, a development that all members should be proud of, and this now gives us the opportunity to consider new investments and new decisions. Our bank debt has been discussed in detail at previous AGMs, but […]
