Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hugely respected equine vet Dr Alistair Maclean has sadly passed away. I didn’t know Dr Maclean personally, so will leave it to others such as son-in-law Chris Svanosio who did to write their tributes to the great man. Suffice to say that he was a giant among vets and a wonderful human being, who was […]
A 4-year-old mare named Home Creek collapsed at the 500m mark in race 1 Aramac on Saturday. Two horses went over the top of her. The riders of the three fallen horses Tim Brummell, Anna Bakos-Schrapel and Robbie Faehr were all taken to hospital with injuries. T’was but for the Grace of God none of […]
Frankie Ferocious wasn’t the only Jason Grimson trained horse that failed miserably at Albion Park last night. Hot and Treacherous totally bombed out too, with the triple Menange winner who started favorite in the million dollar Nullarbor slot race at Gloucester Park in April performing miserably in the Mr Feelgood behind Leap To Fame to […]
For months Frankie Ferocious was odds-on favorite to win last night’s Group 1 Rising Sun at Albion Park, and given his victories in the Group 2 Victorian 4YO Bonanza in the summer and the Group 1 Chariots of Fire in the autumn, so he should have been. In fact on those performances his right price […]
There is a common denominator in the recent rash of positive swabs to Levamisole being returned by Australian trainers with horses imported from New Zealand, and no it is not Turbo Trainor, despite his horses having thrown two. It’s the vet Sam Taylor from the Rangiora Vet Centre. There have been 3 horses in NSW […]
Perhaps you now wish you didn’t. Doesn’t a throat look remarkably like a different part of the human anatomy? It’s uncanny. As is my ignorance of biology. I dropped out of that one at school after they took us on a field trip to a pig abattoir when I was 12, and I heard the […]
Don’t be stupid Wangarattians, he’s a bloody good race caller Hi Archie There is an issue about equine vets that I would like to raise. I can tell you from decades of experience that the vets don’t positively identify horses on ambulatory calls to stables or studs, and in many cases not even on their […]
It’s 5.30pm on Saturday afternoon. The Blazing Bull rodeo is on, and so are the night markets. There are people everywhere at the Ipswich showgrounds. It’s the perfect scenario to attract new interest in greyhound greyhound racing, which is great because the 1st race at the Ippy dogs starts in 23 minutes. Or it’s supposed […]
The newish QRIC Commissioner has come up with this wild and wacky idea about ‘regionalisation’, meaning that he intends to recruit and train race day Stewards from Upper Muckadilla Siding to officiate twice a year at the Lower Muckadilla Siding races, or in the case of the example I am about to give you, the […]
We would like to thank reader Bill Edwards for sending us in these snippets of historical information about the great QLD pacer after whom this website is named. It is greatly appreciated, although we must confess it is a shock to learn than Peter Profit was originally a New South Welshman. Oh well, I guess […]
