Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Today is the 12 month anniversary of QLD racing legend Pat Duff’s passing. It’s hard to believe a year had passed since Pat’s been gone. Gone from us, bet never forgotten. Spare a moment for reflection on your fondest memories of Pat. May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at […]
The Chris and Corey Munce stable is absolutely on fire at present. They have led in a winner on 8 of the past 9 occasions they’ve raced at a meeting. Their tally includes two doubles, two trebles, and four winners yesterday at the Sunshine Coast. Not even Gollan is in better form. And of course […]
The mail is that the substance that Clinton Austin’s horse threw positive to at Birdsville was the by-product of application of a sold over the counter topical antiseptic spray rather than a deliberately administered performance enhancer. Topical antiseptic spray is basically something like Betadine, the red stuff you put on cuts or sores, or Difflam […]
The NSW Trainers Association have been very vocal in its opposition to Peter V’Landys, and was last week reported to be threatening to pass a no confidence motion in V’Landys as Racing NSW CEO. Which begs the question. Who and what exactly is the NSW Trainer’s Association (NSWTA), and what rights to they have under […]
We were right about Luke McCarthy being the best trainer in Australia weren’t we? Kingman’s outstanding victory in the NZ Cup yesterday proved that. It might even have proven that Luke is the best trainer in the Dominion too. What McCarthy has done with this horse is simply incredible. He was getting beaten by Some […]
Former South Australian trot man turned gallops trainer Waylon “The Highwayman” Hornhardt might be in a bit of trouble. Hornhardt’s two runners at the Mildura meeting on Melbourne Cup day Sassy Angel and Mr Trafficanti were scratched by order of the Stewards on reasonable suspicion that they may have been administered medication in breach of AR249(1). […]
Is trainer Lachie Manzelmann’s dominance of the numbers in bush racing a good thing or a bad? Manzelmann had 14 of the 27 runners on the five race card at Moranbah yesterday. He had 5 of the 6 in race one, 3 of 5 in race two, 2 of 4 in race three, 3 of […]
While the cats were all away watching the Cup week races, the mice came out to play at the Redcliffe trots. The mice in this case being crafty Peter Greig and his group of punters, who pulled off the most daring plunge all week, with virtually no-one noticing except the bleeding bookies. The Real Vanessa […]
There are rumors floating around in Queensland racing circles that a greyhound trainer in the south-east corner was yesterday caught live baiting. We don’t have the trainer’s name or the full details yet, but the whispers are very strong. One can only hope for the good of the game that it’s not true. Time we […]
There were eight acceptances for the Open Handicap at Cairns yesterday. Five of them were horses owned by Tom Hedley. Two of the Hedley horses were scratched on Thursday shortly after it became clear that there were enough acceptances (min 5) to run the race. Another Hedley owned horse was pulled out of the race […]
