Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You wouldn’t talk to Jimmy like this would you Bob? Last week we presented you with Will Hulbert’s expletive laden rant about Andrew Mallyon that the trainer sent to stable owners after a race at Caloundra. This week we give you leading trainer Robert Heatcote’s spray to Mark Du Plessis after his ride on Stuttering […]
Emma Stewart and Mark Pitt did something last in Launceston that no trainer or driver have ever done before. They made history The pair competed in nine races, and won every single one of them. The only reason that they didn’t train and drive the card was because they didn’t have a runner in race […]
I hate to say we told you so, but we told you so. Chris Waller has played the Sydney handicapper like a fiddle. By nominating Verry Ellegant for the Sydney Cup and then second accepting her when he never had any intention of running her in the race. Waller has been able to manipulate the […]
Chris Waller is the master of manipulating handicap weights. Winxy’s method is simple, and he has been doing it forever. He enters one of his top rated horses in a handicap race where it is certain to get the top weight, but in which he has no intention of running it, the purpose being to […]
Wanderson D’Avila is a jockey. He is also a grub. D’Avila mistreated his wonderful wife, the horse trainer Sharlee, and being the strong women she is, she gave him the punt. The Queensland racing community know what’s right and wrong – or most of them anyway: I don’t speak for On The Bit Racing – […]
A pacer named Bobsled Boy had twelve starts for experienced provincial trot trainer Kevin Weidenbach between 18 November 2021 and 16 February 2022. It didn’t win or run a place in any of them. The horse’s average beaten margin across them all was about 30 metres a race. It gets transferred to Alex Ashwood and […]
Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Stewards today concluded an inquiry into outstanding Police charges brought against Mr David Reynolds. Stewards took submissions from Mr Reynolds as well as his solicitor in relation to the nature and specifics of the charges and after considering all the evidence and the situation in its entirety Stewards, acting under […]
Positions Available Apprentice/ Trackwork Rider Above award wage. Greg Hickman is not a top ten Sydney trainer, but he is one who always seems to have a horse in his stable that provides him with a lucrative earn, a galloper like Private Secretary, or Royal Purler, or Murjilisa Lass, or more recently the $2.9 million […]
In October 2020 the QRIC conducted a surprise stable inspection on the Friday before a race day and discovered that prominent trainer Chris Munce had injected one of his runners the next day with an unidentified substance. Munce claimed that it was a vitamin solution, but with only an empty syringe and his word to […]
Melbourne racing fans may have seen the last of champion mare Verry Elleegant with Chris Waller confirming that the six-year-old would by-pass the All-Star Mile. The reigning Melbourne Cup heroine received more votes than other runner in the $5 million event, to be run at Flemington on March 19, but Waller said she would run in the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes (2000m) […]
