Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The usual suspects who hate the clan claim that Mark Currie’s strike rate has exploded up since his son boom-boom Benny – aka the Tornado – was allowed by the Stewards to return to the fold as a stable hand, with the inference being that somehow they are cheating, with Ben pulling the rorts. It […]
Glenda Markwell went to the Pearly Gates track on Friday after reaching the finishing post in her incredibly brave and stoic battle against the terrible disease that kept trying to kill her. Nautical Lass in race 1 at Randwick just run was the last ever horse to carry Glenda’s name as trainer in the race […]
On the 29 September licensed Kiwi trainer Murray Neal turned up to the Otaki-Maori race meeting in an official capacity assisting fellow trainer David Jensen, who won the 6th race on the program with a horse named Here Comes Trouble. No-one could have predicted how prescient the horse’s name would be. Despite being at the […]
I don’t wish to speak ill of the dead. But I don’t believe in deifying people who have passed either. In among all the praise for the now deceased trainer from people in the halls of power, just remember one thing. Mick Mair was charged with the sexual assault of a teenage stable employee in […]
DIFFERENCES in what an alleged sexual assault victim told police when they first met her and what police then put in a crime report have been highlighted on the second day of horse trainer Michael James Mair’s trial. Mair, 67, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage woman at a Little Mountain home […]
John Leek is, to say it as nicely as you can, a racecourse character. A rogue and a villain, but by no means an all round bad bloke, if you like that sort of thing. That sort of thing being cobalt, milkshakes, jiggers and a whole lot more. He is a bloody good trainer when […]
Dr Geoff Chapman, at top and middle. His brother Fred below, below and at bottom.
I want to introduce you to Craig ‘Fergo’ Ferguson, aka Fungus. Fungus is a trot trainer. The most improved trainer in the world. In the four seasons from 2017-2020 he had 304 starters for just 17 winners. Horses trained by him won $171 954, at an average annual earn of $42 989. He was struggling. […]
There is weird tendency in racing around the world to smash jockeys for using jiggers, and pretend that the trainers didn’t know. It happens everywhere, just like this one below Jockey Tomas Mejia receives 10-year suspension, $5,000 fine from stewards at New Jersey's Monmouth Park for possession of an electrical device in 7th race Sept. […]
Jack Bruce is a new trainer on the Brisbane scene who many don’t know, but they will soon. This young Deagon based trainer is a gun. He won the Weetwood yesterday with Axe, It was worth $87 000 to the winner. That makes it over $400 000 in earnings for Bruce just 8 weeks into […]
