Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Clinton ‘Squizzy’ Taylor is Australia’s greatest trainer. You only need to look at his strike rate this season to realize that. While Chris Waller is plodding along at 13.9%, Ciaron Maher meandering slowly at 11.2%, and even Brisbane’s dominant force Tony Gollan only finding success 20.6% of the time, Squizzy Taylor from Rockhampton is out […]
How does Jason Grimson do this shit? He gets a rating 63 mare off Olivia Frisby a few weeks ago. Delightful Star is her name. Frisby has won low grade restricted races with the mare at Parkes, Bathurst and Young, but on each of the ten occasions bar one that it has come to town […]
The Steward on duty in the mounting yard at Rockhampton yesterday noticed that SEACRYPTION wasn’t wearing blinkers when it came out for the 7th race. The race book said it was supposed to be, so the ever vigilant stipe pulled the trainer up and said “Oi Boof, where’s the blinkers?” “Where they are bloody supposed […]
In among all the excitement about a great night of racing at Melton tonight, something is missing. The Emma Stewart/Clayton Tonkin stable domination of the fields. Last year Stewart and Tonkin had seven runners in the Victoria Derby, more than half the field. This year they only have three. Then they had six in the […]
Stephen Stanek wasn’t much of a horse trainer, leading in just 2 winners from 75 runners in the decade between 2010 and 2020 that he held a license. Stanek doesn’t seem like much of a bloke either according to the report below that appeared in the Toowoomba Chronicle today. There are bad eggs in every […]
Archie 35 years ago I aspired to own a horse that could run a 2 minute mile!! I am sure I just watched a miracle! The Rascal, winner of race 2 at Albion Park. I went through it’s runs in NZ it ran a place running 2 minutes and won going 2.02. After 2 months […]
Many in harness racing are puzzled as to why NSW trot trainer Brian Portelli hasn’t been stood down after his horse Red Sapphire threw a positive swab to Levamisole after winning a race at Penrith late last month. After all, Jack Trainor was stood down in June last year when his horse Manhattan threw a […]
Former Sunshine Coast trainer Damien Batters has been declared bankrupt after Workcover lodged a creditor’s petition seeking to recover debts that he owed for unpaid workers compensation insurance premiums. The bankruptcy comes as the latest blow for Batters, who was stood down by the QRIC in November last year after being charged by police with […]
More than two months ago we tipped you off that a South Australian gallops trainer had been raided by Stewards who busted them with synthetic peptides manufactured in India in their possession. It appears now that the day of reckoning for the gallops trainer with the peptides is soon to arrive, with prominent racing writer […]
The race for the all-time trainers record is on as the Steve and Amanda Telfer partnership seek to break Roy and Barry Purdon’s 31-year long record of 168 winners in a season. With three months of the season still left to run the Telfers have racked up 137 wins from 642 starters at a strike […]
