Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Barry Purdon is generally regarded as the best trot trainer in history. He has won more premierships than most people have had hot dinners, and won every race worth winning. What Purdon doesn’t know used to be not worth knowing. Not anymore. As good as he is, the Hall of Famer couldn’t get Its Electrifying […]
We wrote earlier about Cran Dalgety’s star filly Beside Me returning a positive swab to Meloxicam after winning a race at Wyndham earlier in the year. Well it appears as usual that we were right, for although there is no published record of either Dalgety having been charged with an offence by Stewards, or of […]
28-year-old Queensland trainer Matt Elkins is in a fine vein of form this season, hitting winners at a strike rate of 19%, almost fifty percent higher than his career rate of 13%. One of the reason Elkins is winning all these races is his ability to get old horses running faster than they have in […]
The old adage about always backing the rank outsider in small fields proved true again last night at Launceston when the $31.00 roughie A Dragon For Joe came from three back the fence on debut to win the feature 2yo race the KEITH STANLEY DEBUTANTE, defeating his three much better fancied rivals that started at […]
Barcaldine Trainer Toni Schofield combined with veteran jockey Jason Missen to land a double at the birthplace of the modern Labor Party and home of the Tree of Knowledge. The duo also teamed up to finish a pair of seconds on the five race card. Single Honour – who was trained at various times by […]
There is nothing that gets a punters blood boiling more than a major form reversal that results in a win. We saw one yesterday when the Team Hayes trained Angry Skies took out the Warracknabeal Cup. Angry Skies had gone like a busted arse at its previous two starts this prep. It has run last […]
I don’t know if NSW hobby trainer Jacqui Ingham would have been doing cartwheels or taking commiserations last night at Parkes. You wait two seasons for a winner – just your ninth in a decade of holding a license – and when it comes you only get half. Ingham’s stable star – her only horse […]
Leading Queensland greyhound trainer Tony Zammit (pictured above) has been disqualified for 12 months after his star dog Valpolicella returned a positive swab to the permanently banned steroid Methandienone when finishing 5th in the 2023 edition of the Group 1 Top Gun Stayers at the Meadows. Nine of the twelve months disqualification has been suspended, […]
Jason Grimson went on air yesterday to pooh-pooh Gary Hall Jr’s earlier claim that Swayzee was 1000-1 to sit outside his WA superstar Mister Smartee in the Nullarbor on Anzac Day and beat him. Swayzee is better sitting in the death outside another horse, Grimson told interviewer Gareth Hall, adding in a ‘back at you […]
The Racing Appeals Panel decision about Rockhampton trainer Tom Smith’s protest against his 3 month suspension for a sustained 33 minute attack on an innocent horse will be handed down at 9.00am on Thursday. You can watch it as it happens at the link below. https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fe8e6c51-b24d-4f6f-a31a-197368cb7751@d16de530-94e7-4158-b7e2-6ee220af628d If you can’t make it we will be reporting […]
