Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Victorian greyhound trainer Deborah Coleman was at one stage for many years a racing Steward at the dogs in NSW before she jumped the fence to pick up a collar and lead by joining the other side. It seems that the ex-stipe hasn’t quite realised that she’s no longer in charge of meetings any more, […]
Don’t get too excited about your new yearling Jones. The enterprising lawyer’s got plans for you. After reading the news that my long time pest Mark Jones had paid $270 000 for the top priced yearling at the Auckland Standardbred sales yesterday, a mate of mine who is known far and wide as The Enterprising […]
Jason Grimson is just too good for everyone else at the moment. Last night at Menangle, Grimson had 8 starters in 6 races. He won 4 of them, training the quinella in two where he had dual starters. Grimson’s other pair finished 3rd and 4th. Both were big runs. 7 of the 8 runners had […]
Trot trainers don’t pluck a horse from Jason Grimon’s barn and make it better. It’s unheard of. That’s what Grimson does to others, he doesn’t have it happen to him. Or he didn’t anyway, until the wonder kid Seaton Grima rode into town and did it. Grimson couldn’t train Firefox to win a single race […]
It’s very rare in modern Australian racing for a filly to be set for a Derby instead of an Oaks, and the ones who do run against the boys in the 3YO classic is so small that you could could it them on literally two hands. The Kiwis do it different, or at least Orchestral’s […]
The great Keith McDeed exploded back into the winners list at Newcastle yesterday, breaking a more than a 2-year drought by winning the prestigious TAB Venue Mode HRNSW Guaranteed 2yo Maiden Pace, a race that in the past has been won by legends of the crushed of the compacted granite dust circuit such as Whatshisname, […]
Zac didn’t drive Mach Shard, Scott Phelan did, but I like the picture and Barry’s in it. It’s not often these days that you see a Grand Circuit standard horse racing free legged without any hopples. In fact it’s an absolute rarity. That didn’t stop master trainer Barry Purdon from keeping the gear off his […]
Hot And Treacherous was a very smart young pacer in New Zealand who raced against the very best of his generation, and beat a few of them too. He was good when he came to Australia as well, but not grand. Then Jason Grimson got his mitts on the horse, and all of a sudden […]
68 year old NSW trainer Keith McDeed has had just 19 runners at the races in the past 20 years, and in that two decades has prepared just two winners. He hasn’t even had one at the races since 2o21. But that’s all about to change at Newcastle tomorrow night, for like Lazarus – the […]
The word on the street is that the racing lab may have found traces of something a lot more explosive than saline in the tubes of the drips seized from Emma Stewart that lead to her presently stayed 6 month disqualification. Something much more explosive indeed. If the mail is correct, this is going to […]
