Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I will bet you an arm and a leg against a roast chook that Always Smokin suffers a problem in the next few days and gets scratched from the 4YO Championship at Albion Park on Saturday night. It’s London to a brick on. Owner Craig Whiteoak has two runners in the race, Always Smokin and […]
Saturday is the last day of the 2023/2024 country racing season, which means its the last day that the great bush hero Fabs Cowboy will ever step out in a race. The question is, which racecourse will he be bidding us all farewell from? Longreach had been the mail all week, so much so that […]
Australia’s greatest gallops trainer (self professed) Ronald J.W. (Just Wins) Johnson, aka the Brown Rice man, had trained just 2 winners in the past decade coming into last weekend. To be fair to the master multiple Hay Gold Cup winning trainer however, he had only had 26 runners in that 10 years, so his strike […]
Clayton Tonkin had three runners at Melton on Saturday night that started deep in the red. Each one the trio were regarded as being top class. All of them lost. Petracca won the Vicbred Super Series and the Victoria Derby last season. In the Derby it ran 53.98 seconds for the last half over 2760m. […]
Kiwi trainer Mark Jones had to wait a while for it to happen, but with Tempo Warrior’s win tonight at Addington he has finally cracked the 800 career win mark. It’s well known that I am no big fan of Jones, but credit where credit due, 8oo wins is a great achievement and not many […]
Jockey Brad Stewart has a shocking disciplinary history, having been outed on multiple occasions for alcohol and gamblng related offences, and once even jailed. In 2015 the Stewards gave Stewart a 3-month suspended ban for placing 17 bets on his TAB and Crownbet accounts, meaning that when he got sprung again in June having placed […]
In February of this year Victorian trot trainer Paul Cauchi was convicted in the Sunbury Magistrates court on counts of failing to provide veterinary care to two horses, and aggravated cruelty to the pair. Cauchi’s offending was particularly egregious. One of the victim horses had two catastrophically fractured legs and burn lesions to both; the […]
Wayne Yole had 21 runners across 7 races at the Hobart trots last night. He won one of the races, but that wasn’t his notable achievement. Finishing last in all seven races was. That would have to be some sort of record wouldn’t it, seven out of seven? There are just two things I can […]
Where’s that Archie hiding now? A few years bacl I remember laughing at John Symons when he told me that he’d paid $120 000 for a colt by then first season sire The Mission at the March Yearling sale at the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale. “The Mission?” I snorted. “That cat could […]
Our favorite Kiwi trot trainer Mark Jones needs just one more winner to make it to the 800 career wins mark. Will he ever get there is the question most are asking? Jones has been stranded on 700 for the past 5 weeks since he last trained a winner, and hasn’t even looked like getting […]
