Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Former bush jockey and trackwork rider Lauren Abbott has been training for six seasons. Her winning strike rate in the first five of them never climbed above 10%, and 41.7% was best place rate. The most winners that she has ever trained in a full season is 13. Her sixth season – this one – […]
Ray Thomas on Racenet reported yesterday that James Cumming is mentioning Anamoe in the same breath as the legendary English champions Nijinksy and Dancing Brave. Cummings has got to be kidding hasn’t he? Anamoe is a great horse to be sure, and potentially a champion, but at this stage of their respective careers he wouldn’t have […]
Danny Bougoure has been in the wars lately, after being kicked out of his infield stables at Eagle Farm to make room for Annabel Neesham to have some. Matt Rudolph from the BRC that run the track reckoned that D. Bougoure’s strike rate was not good enough to justify him keeping barns there, and as […]
We are two thirds of the way through the harness racing season, and some Premierships appear already won, while others are being closely contested and remain anyone’s to grasp. James Herbertson on 153 is 24 wins ahead of second placed Greg Sugars in the Victorian State Drivers Premiership, with the Candyman 3 wins in front […]
I imagine that Mark Pitt was someone surprised to learn that he trained Shez All Rock in Tasmania when this article by Dave Di Somma was published a few years back. The people at Shepparton where the mare was actually trained would have been too. You can’t blame Dave. He’s from Christchurch. Cantabrians can’t see […]
