Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In Queensland you have to have five acceptors to make a field. Race 1 at Townsville got there. Just. Georgie Holt put three in to make the numbers work. Then after Racing QLD declared it a race she scratched two. No doubt they will have a slight cough, or heat in the joint. The sort […]
Told you so didn’t we? You always hear it here first. Linday Hatch to Give Away Training? Many thanks to our sources. No doubt our scoop will piss Tony Gollan off. Good. He knows why.
When the 7-year-old gelding Martin Magic came up from the SA-Victoria border area to QLD to join the Matt Elkins stable it had raced 98 times for 11 wins, but had never won in faster that 1.58.led a That win came 3 years ago. More recently it had led a year ago at Terang and […]
Now to be very clear, if a little folksy, I am writing what follow from a position of ignorance, but informed by what is in the Stewards report, and added to by what experience gained from a life spent on the track tells me must almost certainly have happened. But to be very clear it’s […]
We wrote the story above 4 months ago, and the one below 2 months before that. Meet Mr Nobody – Western Queenland’s Newest Trainer Well the good news is that the question has finally been answered. Trainer Terry Hall, formerly of Cloncurry, has taken over all the horses that NSW trainer Brett Cavanough supposedly trained […]
The unconfirmed rumor from around the Brisbane track is that Toowoomba based horseman Lindsay Hatch (pictured above) is giving away training in his own right. Hatch is said to be going to take up a role as stable foreman for his great mate Tony Gollan at the Gold Coast. It is not known when the […]
Brisbane trainer Lindsay Gough is never going to win a premiership, because he doesn’t have the numbers and probably doesn’t want then, But gee he knows how land a plunge. Gough has to one of the best old-fashioned money trainers in the business. When the cash comes for one of his horses they usually win. […]
It’s bloody amazing isn’t it? Jason Grimson has only 26 horses in work, and among them are three of the fastest twenty ever to race over the mile at Menangle – Rakero Rocket (1.47.3), Himynameisjeffn (1.48.4), and Swayzee (1.48.6) – another who no doubt will shortly be joining them in Captains Mistress (1.50.0), and a […]
Constantina is a 9-year-old mare that coming into the 1st race at Newcastle on Friday night had raced 143 times and won 17 of them. The fastest of them was in 1.54.1. But that was before Super Seaton Grima got hold of the old girl. He did a couple of weeks ago. Last night Constantina […]
For the avoidance of any doubt, and to avert any false accusations that I am threatening to commit violence upon anyone, I am using the Ali x Terrell fight as a literary device metaphor in the legal context for why you should not insult people by calling them names that they don’t wish to be […]
