Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In an occurrence as rare as Halley’s Comet, NSW’s leading trainer Jason Grimson has finally trained a 2-year-old winner. Grimson rarely plays in the juvenile pond so hasn’t made many attempts at winning with a youngster in the past, but he proved with the win of the Glen Holland bred, Mick Boots owned Bettorleftalone at […]
When is the last time you evert saw a 2-horse race at a metro meeting on a Saturday run on a Good 4 track? How about never, until yesterday. There were eight accepted starters for race 1 at Eagle Farm, a Maiden run over the distance of 2406m. Six of them were scratched, leaving the […]
Queensland gallops trainer Kerrod Smyth has been disqualified for 10 months after one of his maiden gallopers returned a positive swab to elevated levels of TCO2 after a race at Rockhampton in July. 38.5 mmol/L carbon monoxide was the reading the horse returned, well in excess of the threshold of 36.0 and almost certainly indicative […]
Tasmanian horse trainer Liandra Gray has been disqualified for 2 years for animal cruelty after pleading guilty to a charge under the rules related to her whipping a horse more than forty times with a race whip as she was trying to force it to lunge in a sand roll. In August Gray was convicted […]
After a by his own standards relatively quiet winter, Jason Grimson has returned to peak form with a bang. Four out of four he won, including three of the four heats of the Carousel, and the Free For All Listed Classic. Look out for Swayzee next start is all I can say. The way Grimson […]
Helluva is a 7-year-old pacer who has been running around racetracks since the year 2020, and in that time has saluted te judge in first place on 12 occasions, but in all of his wins the horse has never run a race in a faster mile rate than 1.54.9. That win came 2 years ago over […]
It seems at least another 3 racehorses formerly trained by Brett Cavanough out of the property of disqualified participant Todd Austin have been transferred. To Nobody. As far as I am aware the mysterious Mr Nobody doesn’t have a trainer’s license, which does not seem to make him unique out in the west of Queensland […]
What’s going on with all these horses formerly trained by Brett Cavanough out at disqualified participant Todd Austin’s property at Barcaldine? At least three of the Cavanough horses – two of them part-owned by Austin’s wife Toni – have been transferred according to Racing Australia’s records, but to who? The records don’t show the horses […]
Colin McDowell celebrates his Breeders Blue win with a feed Have you ever heard of the standardbred sire Lord Zin Zan? No? Me either. That’s because in five years at stud he has only ever served 12 mares who have produced just nine live foals. His runner to winner record is alright though, for four […]
Victorian trainer Rhonda Mangan was on Facebook yesterday bemoaning the fact that owners won’t give her horses even though she sends out updates on their horses 2-3 times a week, saying that instead they prefer to send their gallopers to big trainers whose communication is nowhere near as good. That’s Mangan’s story and she is […]
