Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The case of trot trainer Adam Kelly and the meth positives was a most unusual one indeed. Two of Kelly’s horses threw positive swabs to methamphetamine – P, ice, crack, crank – in the space of 10 days, one of them – Showmethetanlines – after winning a listed race at Menangle. In the Hanging State […]
Starvecchio in the pink colors was backed from $3.10 into $1.90 to win race 2 at the Sunshine Coast yesterday. It lost, after racing extremely ungenerously and pulling its head off. The Stewards have launched an inquiry into the ride, the tactics and the run. I for one am not quite sure why. The horse […]
23 acceptors were scratched from Saturday’s Julia Creek meeting because there was no jockey there to ride them. There were only 51 runners set to be on the card. Which means that almost half of them were scratched. That’s ridiculous of an in itself. But here is the real crazy bit. The Stewards allowed Tanya […]
Tom Ison may not have driven to get his other horse up in race 2 at Tamworth yesterday, but he certainly did drive to get the first two in the betting market beaten, including the favorite, his own. Ison drives the 4 Nashville Bart. It is $2.15. Jemma Coney is on the 1 Ceejay Haich. […]
There has been a lot of conjecture about Ben Currie’s place in racing in recent months and weeks. There always is. Is Currie a villain who is somehow training by remote control in clear and present sight? Is he just a husband and father working within the rules to provide for his wife and kids? […]
https://www.instagram.com/reels/Da7sUJ4jwtL/ No-one wants to be seen to be spitting out sour grapes, so good on owner Mick Boots and trainer Jason Grimson for winning ID26 with Captains Mistress, and smashing the track record by a full second in doing so. But the mares extraordinary win has left many major owners asking one simple question. What’s […]
Prominent young harness racing owner Josh Davine fame is a man for all seasons, and a trot lover who is living his dream. Last year Davine bought Darrel Graham’s training property at Biddaddaba in QLD, and used it to set up his N40 racing operation, installing his best mate Michael Brennan as trainer at the […]
We told you a couple of days ago about an alleged animal cruelty incident involving Rockhampton trainer Clinton Taylor, and as usual you heard it here first. Taylor was today immediately stood down from training and had his license suspended after QRIC Chief Steward Josh Adams flew to the beef capital and viewed the CCTV […]
It is probably apropos of nothing after the horse’s abject failure in its second row heat, but the question still remains. How did the QLD Stewards allow the transfer of Captain’s Knock from trainer Brad Hewitt to Jason Grimson half way through the ID26 series? They say it was because Hewitt notified them of transport […]
The mail is that leading Rockhampton trainer Clinton Taylor was riding one out at trackwork on Friday morning (assuming young horse) and it wouldn’t go out on to the track, so he’s got these spurs on it and it was jacking up and carrying out and it’s flipped over on the concrete, cracked it’s head, […]
