Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Tony Gollan trained gelding Dranitzelle incurred a proximal spiral stress fracture to the R radius (a long bone) on or about the 12th of May 2025. We don’t know how it happened, because the unacceptably brief Stewards Report into the matter – hidden away in the official report of an unrelated race meeting – […]
COMPULSORY REPORTING OF MAJOR FRACTURES, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AND APPROVAL OF AFFECTED HORSES TO RETURN TO RACING This policy is intended to help identify and manage racehorses that sustain major fractures or undergo major orthopaedic surgery and manage their return to training, galloping, trialling, and racing. Where a horse has sustained a major fracture and/or undergone […]
It was only a trial at the Gold Coast on Tuesday, but gee this 2YO looked good. And with a name like that why wouldn’t he? How gracious of Jay Bellamy was it to name his horse after this website? After all, we named the site after the horse that beat his family’s great champion […]
John Symons and Sheila Laxon had to fight like hell to get their circa half million dollar share of Knight’s Choice’s winning prizemoney for the Melbourne Cup, after RISA and/or Racing Victoria stuffed up and paid it to their old business partner, who trousered the cash. Fortunately for the blissfully happy couple they followed our […]
Read your story about Liam Birchley with interest and agree he was badly done over by a steward who was obviously a complete dictator. Agree Liam was always a master 2yo trainer and winning the Karaka Millions for the 3rd time is a brilliant achievement. One of his best 2YO wins in the last 12 months […]
Liam Birchley is a great trainer, and an even better bloke. He is true Australian too. The wannabe coppers at Racing Victoria back in the day took him without any evidential basis for everything that he had, and kicked him out on his own. Liam was down, but he never bit the dust. Men of […]
Liam Birchley is in my opinion one of the hardest done by blokes in racing, not that he would agree with me, for the trainer’s not the type to get bitter or complain. He has plenty of grounds to though. Birchley’s training career was literally destroyed overnight by Terry Bailey and his ‘Integrity’ Team at […]
Sheila and John Symons, saying I do. Well, John said yes and Sheila said I will, so I guess that’s close enough. It all happened at 2 o’clock this arvo in the little chapel down on water here at Port Douglas, and it was beautiful. I’ve never seen two people happier in my life, neither […]
Last week we told you about the absolutely incredible and amazing performance improvement of a mare named Shes A Warrawee since it came to QLD and the Mitchell Dawson stable. This Shit Ain’t Real – But it Is We told you that what had just happened by the mare wasn’t real. Horses don’t get that […]
Until a month ago the fastest time that Still Rollin had ever run a mile in was 1.52.0. Then he went to Jason Grimson. And on Saturday night he went 1.49.7. The fastest Grant Dixon could get Demon Blue to go was 1.51.9, which was in defeat. It won in 1.51.7 on the weekend, doing […]
