Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sometimes race stewards make decisions that leave you scratching your head and wondering if what you just saw and read with the same pair of eyes is real, or whether you are in fact walking around in some sort of parallel world hallucinating. Take this stewards report of race 3 at the Geelong trots on […]
Loui had raced 18 times prior to October. It had won twice. The time it ran in that win was 1.57.2. This horse had always been trained by Ross Adams, and still is. Adams had driven it in it’s every start too. But 6 weeks ago all of a sudden first David Morris, and then […]
Prior to arriving in Victoria, Spirit Of St Louis had won five of his 14 Aussie starts including victories in Queensland’s 4YO Championship and a heat of the Inter Dominion series. But nothing he’d achieved before the Bendigo Cup could have helped predict what’s transpired over the past 17 days. These three regional features staged […]
Well you can either piss in the tent or piss outside. If time we pissed within. In order to qualify for a spot on the Council we need five venerable referees. Please email peterprofitracing@gmail.com to let us know you are up for it. ‘Holler4A’ Marshall Dobson has already cosmically signalled his intent. We need four […]
ISSUING DOCTOR – Dr Dunwaz Pizd MEDICAL CLINIC – Yaldhurst Tavern Hangover Centre PATIENT – Driver John Dunn DIAGNOSIS – The patient was at the pub until 5.00am after a wedding sculling pints and spirits as if there was no tomorrow. He was that drunk that there was none, and given that he had imbibed […]
Joe Conolly used to be a full-time copper and part-time trainer who played around around with the few horses and enjoyed a bit of luck. I don’t know if Conolly still a detective in the NSW police force, but he certainly has a lot more horses these days, and is having a whole lot of […]
New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries Former NZ Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and my mate Bottles This is the colt that I wrote earlier this evening about in the story A Mixed Bakers Dozen – The Top-Priced 13 Lots at the Gold Coast APG Sale Dissected The one that […]
It was only two days ago I was telling a trot mate about what a promising talent the young Tasmanian trainer-driver Conor Crook was, and wrapping the kid up. Then the little bastard does this. Crook is on the horse 3 back the fence in the purple. The one driven dead. It’s the $1.95 favourite […]
So how did yesterday’s APG sale numbers go? Good and bad. Did the $150 000 that APG and Albion Park splashed at a sales graduates only race make a huge difference to the numbers? Yes and no. The gross was substantially higher – almost double in fact at $1.96 million this year v $1.00 million […]
John Polson’s mare Washington Lass has produced two of the past three QBRED 2YO Triad winners, and the three foals she has produced have earned $380 000 between them with more in the locker to come, so you can’t blame him for wanting to hang on to her next foal too. Which only goes to […]
