Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Congratulations to Victorian trainer Aftab Shaikh, who after40 months and 52 starts of trying finally cracked it for his first career win yesterday when Kilmister took out third race at Warracknabeal. I don’t know much about Shaikh, other than that he had his first runner as a stand alone trainer on the 3rd of May 2o21 […]
Footnote The foray over the sticks didn’t do much to sharpen Cuban Dawn up. It ran at Bendigo yesterday and finished 10th, beaten 8.51 lengths.
As you can see Tasracing has given gallops trainer Tanya Hanson warm plaudits and a fond farewell upon her retirement from the racing industry, with the principal racing authority’s tribute to her published on its website. That says everything you need to know about the regulators of the sport in the Apple Isle, and their […]
On Friday night WA trot trainer Kim Prentice joined Gary Hall and Greg Bond in the ranks of slippery customers pulling stooges on the Stewards to manipulate fields in order to get their horses a start. Prentice had two horses in the 3yo fillies race worth $21 000, but when the nominations closed at the […]
Emma Stewart made it 6 wins in a row and 8 from her past 10 by racking up a treble at Melton last night. Remarkably two of her winners were first-up for a year from injury enforced breaks, and the other was a 4-year-old mare on debut. None had officially trialed. The trio were the […]
Mildura trainer Naomi Kerr has raised eyebrows in harness racing circles by becoming a master at taking on tried horses from other stables and turning their form around, often improving their best times several seconds in the process. Many are wondering how she does it, with some being pretty sure they can guess. Kerr was […]
No this is not a story about male to male oral sex in the toilet stalls at Clifford Park, as much as you might draw that inference from a security guard at the Toowoomba racing awards last night finding two blokes in the dunny with one bent over and a finger up his cavity. What […]
Second starter Ramp It Up was well backed at long odds in the first at the Sunshine Coast yesterday. It landed the money and the Gough stable bets. They must have had their hearts in their mouths over the final few strides. Just watch what happened. The horse obviously knew the money was on. The […]
Toby Edmonds yesterday was found guilty by NSW Stewards of injecting his horse Burning Bell within one clear day of a racing engagement. Edmonds was fined $3000. He was a bit unlucky. Burning Bell was set to race in the Mothers Gift at Grafton on the Thursday of the carnival. The horse was injected a […]
If the images you see are any indication of the story, it appears that Ben Yole is not the only trainer who keeps his horses outdoor and uncovered in terrible circumstances. They do it in Aotearoa too. Robert Dunn is New Zealand’s leading trainer. He and his training partner Jenna Dunn, the wife of his […]
