Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I had a good go at Captain’s Mistress to win the Group 1 Queen Of Hearts at Alexandra Park. Nathan Williamson drove a bottler. She swept up to the leader in the straight and went straight past. Captain’s Mistress was home to the world. And then with 25m to go the seat fell off. It […]
Bushy Beach, the $1.33 favorite in the 7th race at Tamworth yesterday, got rolled because the driver went too fast early. So fast that he ran a 25.5 second lead time, which I reckon might be close to the fastest first split that we have ever seen over 1980m there. Far too fast. The fave […]
Yet another QLD racing licensee has been outed for submitting a falsified annual Health Assessment Report (HAR), but this time it is a driver at the trots not a jockey. Heather Warland, until last week the holder of a C-Grade harness racing drivers license that permitted her to drive in trackwork and trials but not […]
Veteran QLD trot trainer Al Barnes has been disqualified for 4 months for assaulting the driver of his horse Mullum Judy after it raced at Marburg last month. The crazy thing about it is that the victim was his son! Brendan Barnes drove the horse for his Dad, who obviously got angry about something to […]
Hi Archie, Chester and I were only saying the other day, over a Lamington and a Cuppa in the members at Pinjarra Trots, how long is it since we have seen a good old fashioned plunge, drug assisted or clean as a whistle, you know, all hands on deck, helping a battler get the cash? […]
Personally Archie I find it a bit rich that poor old gaita can’t cop a fresh start in SA. She’s assaulted only a few who others would like to smack, injected the ones who weren’t performing to her liking and god knows what else, but Gaita’s a good old fashioned little Aussie battler who deserves […]
I think I might have seen a good horse at Melton on Thursday, and it’s the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen. Thesting it’s called, all one word. A two-year old bay colt. By Sweet Lou out of a Holmes Hanover mare. Trained by John Yeomans, a canny 83-year-old who doesn’t ever have huge numbers, but […]
Gaita Pullicino (right) with husband and ‘trainer’ Frank In a letter we published by Ted From Tooleybuc (the letter was real, as is our usual practice only the name was changed) about Gaita Pullicino’s drive at Globe Derby on Sunday, Ted made certain statements that are not quite accurate. Ted said that: Its interesting that […]
Here is a little Xmas gift for Peter McMullen and Chantal Turpin. A six horse race where they have five of the runners, and the other one is classes below most of theirs. Why does there need to be a 3-Year-Old race programmed on the third last Saturday of the season anyway? These horses are […]
Hello Peter Profit Regarding your story on Auntie Gaita pulling off a plunge on Sunday Night at Globe Derby. A Lesson From Auntie Gaita About How to Pull Off a Plunge Everyone was in on it. Facebook followers around the nation were applauding Gaita Pullicino’s win, including incredibly Melanie Kittel, the trainer of two of […]
