You Always Hear It Here First
Told you so didn’t we? You always hear it here first. Linday Hatch to Give Away Training? Many thanks to our sources. No doubt our scoop will piss Tony Gollan off. Good. He knows why.
Houdini Was a Magician Too – But Look What Happened to Him
When the 7-year-old gelding Martin Magic came up from the SA-Victoria border area to QLD to join the Matt Elkins stable it had raced 98 times for 11 wins, but had never won in faster that 1.58.led a That win came 3 years ago. More recently it had led a year ago at Terang and […]
We Never Did That Sort of Thing Back in Geebung Joe
Now to be very clear, if a little folksy, I am writing what follow from a position of ignorance, but informed by what is in the Stewards report, and added to by what experience gained from a life spent on the track tells me must almost certainly have happened. But to be very clear it’s […]
Mystery Solved? – Who Knows What Lies Beneath the Eye of the Drones
We wrote the story above 4 months ago, and the one below 2 months before that. Meet Mr Nobody – Western Queenland’s Newest Trainer Well the good news is that the question has finally been answered. Trainer Terry Hall, formerly of Cloncurry, has taken over all the horses that NSW trainer Brett Cavanough supposedly trained […]
Linday Hatch to Give Away Training?
The unconfirmed rumor from around the Brisbane track is that Toowoomba based horseman Lindsay Hatch (pictured above) is giving away training in his own right. Hatch is said to be going to take up a role as stable foreman for his great mate Tony Gollan at the Gold Coast. It is not known when the […]
The Best Money Trainer in Brisbane
Brisbane trainer Lindsay Gough is never going to win a premiership, because he doesn’t have the numbers and probably doesn’t want then, But gee he knows how land a plunge. Gough has to one of the best old-fashioned money trainers in the business. When the cash comes for one of his horses they usually win. […]
All Hail King Jason – The Greatest Trainer in the World
It’s bloody amazing isn’t it? Jason Grimson has only 26 horses in work, and among them are three of the fastest twenty ever to race over the mile at Menangle – Rakero Rocket (1.47.3), Himynameisjeffn (1.48.4), and Swayzee (1.48.6) – another who no doubt will shortly be joining them in Captains Mistress (1.50.0), and a […]
Super Seaton Does the Impossible Again
Constantina is a 9-year-old mare that coming into the 1st race at Newcastle on Friday night had raced 143 times and won 17 of them. The fastest of them was in 1.54.1. But that was before Super Seaton Grima got hold of the old girl. He did a couple of weeks ago. Last night Constantina […]
The Jungle Drums Are Beating Even Louder
Remember we tipped you a couple of months ago that one of Jason Grimson’s horses had thrown a positive swab? Well the jungle drums are beating louder and louder that its true, although presently we have been unable to confirm it. We don’t what horse it, is or what the substance or drug may be, […]
I Hope Ando Disinfects His New Desk Twice
The news that Chris Anderson is downsizing to become a ’boutique’ trainer leads to an obvious question. Will the Brisbane Racing Club allow him to keep his place in the much sought after infield stables at Eagle Farm? After all it wasn’t all that long ago that they knocked multiple Group 1 trainer Danny Bougoure […]