Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Our story yesterday about trainer Brett Cavanough’s satellite operation in Queensland attracted some comment from readers. Here are a couple of them. As usual the content of the letters are genuine, only the names have been changed. ——————————————— Hi Archie, Reaching out in regards to your article on Brett Cavanough. A lady called Steph Alexander […]
Why would trainer Brett Cavanough enter his horse Indifference at Alpha in Queensland one day and at Coffs Harbour in NSW the next? After all it’s a 16 hour drive between the two tracks, and Cavanough trains his horses out of Scone (or so we’re told). He wouldn’t have entered Indifference in the Alpha Cup […]
What has happened to training partners Corey and Kylie Geran’s luck? It appears to have deserted them. Over the past 3 years they have been training winners at an average strike rate of better 15%. In the past 7 weeks they have led in only 3 winners from 75 starters, at a rate of just […]
Our favorite Queensland horse Flash Aah has just pulled off one of the great wins in the Ipswich Cup. Prepared perfectly by much underrated trainer Troy Pascoe, one of the nicest people in racing, Flash came from with a withering boom from well back to take out the time honored race under a heady ride […]
Disqualified steroid cheat Nick Walsh’s best horse Hell was transferred to the stable of fellow drug cheating trainer Tom Smith on Monday. The ink was barely dry on the change of trainer form before Hell was on the move. Yesterday he was transferred to comeback trainer Shane Sivgart, who has only one other horse presently […]
We told you way back in January 2023 that Nick Walsh was a drug cheat. His strike rates were just too incredible for him to be anything else. When something looks too good to be true it usually is. Walsh got caught with the banned performance enhancing anabolic steroid Stanozolol in one of horse’s systems. […]
“Nick who?” you ask. The young trainer whose record over the past 12 months is 93 starters for 41 wins, 19 seconds and 9 thirds. That’s almost 100 runners for a strike rate of 44.1% the win and 74.2% the place. Walsh is doing even better this season. 42 starts – 21 wins and 11 […]
Something seems to be afoot in the Nick Walsh camp. His best galloper Hell was yesterday transferred into the care of the horse basher and doper trainer Tom Smith. Walsh’s recent winner Daimyo was too. Both horses have different connections so it’s unlikely to be due to an ownership dispute. More likely it has to […]
They were unable to determine how the product entered the horse’s system. However, Meloxicam could be administered orally. BESIDE ME might have been an unfortunate and vulnerable target. She was a first-starter in a maiden race, paying $1.50 on the tote, by a leading sire in DOWNBYTHESEASIDE and out of a $1.4 million stakes-winning mare […]
Is Michael Young, if you will excuse the terminology, “taking the piss” out of Harness Racing in WA? Our of administrators, stewards and his contemporaries and of course the public? Not my words but an oft repeated phrase amongst the fraternity, many of whom wonder how he is still licensed after his 3 year disqualification […]
