Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are some awful whispers coming out of the western districts about the predicament of the 6YO pacing mare Ellen Shannon. We are hearing that the mare went sore after her most recent 22m fourth at Bathurst six weeks ago, which followed on from her horrible 51.3 metre beating at the same track 16 days […]
Gai is correct that accidents do happen, but when footballers or racing car drivers suffer an injury in training they aren’t put down by injection with a lethal needle. And equine accidents seem to happen at a far greater rate to horses brought to Australia by Coolmore – which has been the subject of widespread […]
Wayne Walters is widely credited as the trainer of Torbek, the horse that they famously pulled off a massive plunge on at Seymour in April 1979. That’s about as true as the story that the then council clerk and now dodgy Cairns motel owner Brian Jorgenson was the mastermind behind the plunge. It was all […]
One thing I don’t do is lie. The jury is out on that one. I did not know that stock whips were banned. Oh yeah. Why did you think no-one else uses them? Where I come from (Ilfracombe, 1100km west of Brisbane), stock whips are used as a guiding tool, like a jockey would use, […]
Many pundits believed that the Lindsay Park stable would go backwards for a couple of years during the rebuild after David Hayes m0ved back to Hong Kong and left the Australian training arm to his boys Ben and JD. How wrong they were. Lindsay Park has become better under the dynamic young training duo, not […]
Redcliffe trot trainer Donny Smith has been on a roll after training 4 winners from 5 0ver the weekend, but I fear that the excitement of his outstanding achievements has ruined Donny’s brain. Mr D. Smith claims that his rating 90 pacer Uptown Beach Girl, the winner of a Band 4 – Band 2 pace […]
Smoking Joe Connolly is one of the hottest hobby trot trainers that you would ever meet. A copper by trade. Smoking Joe spends his spare hours making slow horses go fast, and from time to time – usually but not always when his runners aren’t pre-race swabbed – he does it really well too. Last […]
This might sound mad, and may well be, but with all due respect to Tony Gollan (not much), the greatest trainer in QLD is not he. It’s a young man who trains out of Rocky called Nick Walsh. This bloke is a freak. Have a look at his career stats at the top. Then have […]
Trainer Ray Burman is one of the most loved men in greyhound racing, a fella admired and respected by one and all. Ray’s been having a few medical issues lately, but as he proved at Ipswich on Monday night, they aren’t going to keep him down. Even his dogs love Ray, one called Blue Hornet […]
