Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Clayton’s Tonkins team of two-year-olds have only been racing for 3 months. In that time he had 18 juveniles race. 14 of them have won a race. That gives Clayton Tonkin a winner to starter strike rate of 77.8% The team of 18 have had 40 starts between them for 22 wins and 12 placings. […]
So Nick Walsh scratched his horse Hell from the suspect race in Rockhampton in which one of his other runners Fine Shot was heavily backed because Hell hadn’t recovered from a virus that struck it down a month ago did he? The same illness that resulted in the so claimed elevated temperature that caused the […]
Remember Oakleigh, the nag with form of a dray cart donkey until its trackword rider hit it with a jigger at the instruction of the trainer to spark it up? Well those devices may be cruel and inhumane but they obviously work, for yesterday in Longreach the horse whose form before being jolted read 35: […]
The Stewards at Rockhampton yesterday questioned trainer Nick Walsh about a number of significant bets that had been placed on his runner in the 2nd race Fine Shot when the early markets went up on Thursday. You might ask so what, but the reason that they asked the question is because the bets were placed […]
A couple of days away we wrote about how Team Yole and their backers had devised a plan to get around Tasracing’s Equity in Participation policy by getting Robert “Honest Bob” (because he isn’t) Walters licensed so that they could split the Yole horses among he and Wayne Yole and thus flood and stack the […]
Stewards questioned licencee Mr Robert Walters’, concerned with evidence he had tendered at a previous licence inquiry. At the commencement of today’s inquiry Mr Walters admitted submitting to ORI falsified documents. Stewards, after investigating the circumstances into why and how Mr Walters had falsified the documents, subsequently charged him for breaching Australian Harness Racing (AHR) […]
On Monday we published a story titled Jigger Me Timber – Is It True That … In this story we posed the questions about whether it was true that …. a tool of a trainer turned up at his local track to work his horse the other day accompanied by a work rider who doubles […]
Lui Trotta (pictured above) has won his appeal against a 14 month disqualification imposed on him for both publicly abusing his young driver Bernadette Page, and telling the starter who had conveyed to him a direction to attend the Stewards room that the Stewards “could go and get fucked”. Well he has sort of won […]
Yesterday a feel good story about former QLD heavyweight apprentice jockey Nick Keal’s transition to the training ranks featured on the Racing QLD website. I bet the writer of the piece wished it hadn’t now. Within mere hours after the story was published, Keal was locked up in a watchhouse cell, where he spent an […]
A mate of mine owns this galloper that early in its career was a very promising 2yo who won 3 of his first 4 starts and ran 6th in a Group 3 in the other, before rounding off his first prep with a deseperately unlucky 6th in a Group 1 after the last minute stand-in […]
