Kyal Costello is Victorian Harness racing driver. In the space of 4 months he placed bets in 24 races in which he was competing. Let’s just hope that he backed his own horses. If he didn’t, then Mr Cosello would be well advised to find himself a new hobby. We won’t be seeing him at […]
The Victorian Jockeys Association is Off It’s Head
Look at the crude drawing I did above of two race tracks built inside each other. Do they look the same size? Of course not. You can’t build an oval circuit inside an oval circuit and not expect it to be smaller. That’s just stupid. Caulfield is 2080m around from post to post, and has […]
A Stab in the Dark at Selecting the Winners of the 2021 Victorian Horse of the Year Awards
The nominees for the 2021 Victorian Horse of the Year Awards have been announced. Let’s have a crack at picking the winners. 2YO pacing fillies: Amore Vita, Encipher, Irish Black Label Three very good fillies here, and it is a raffle. Encipher beat Amore Vita in the Breeders Crown. Amore Vita beat her in the Vicbred […]
Dani Drives One Dead, Admits It, and Cops Only 3 Weeks – Ain’t Being a Koala Just Grand?
Dani Hill drove Flame Blaster as dead as a doornail at Mildura on Friday night. She hooked it. The horse was three wide with a trail when the one whose back she was on started to wilt and fall back in her lap. Hill could and should have gone, for she was going nowhere but […]
Gee I Wonder Why Tim McGuigan is All of a Sudden Going So Good?
Victorian trot trainer Tim McGuigan is 56 years of age, and has been training since season 1986/87. Over the course of that 35 years his strike rate has been 8% the win and 22% the place. All of sudden in his golden years McGuigan is this year hitting winners at double the rate (17%) and […]
No Candy For the Tomato Sauce Takers
Oh dear. What sort of drive was this by Greg Sugars on the $1.35 favourite La Captain in the 8th race at Ballarat last night? It was all pretty early, with the Candy Man popping the 3’s on shot off the rail into the running line, and then shooting it around the field toward the […]
Punch Someone in the Head, Tip Someone Out of Cart, Lie to the Stewards, and Bet Against Your Own Horse – Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick – Here, Have an Award Son
Ben Currie had the Queensland Trainer of the Year award that he had earned denied to him because he was DQ’d. Darren Weir did too. Fair enough many people would say, although not me. Different rules apply at the trots. David Moran is serving 7 months for a raft of different offences, all of them […]
The Rabbit, the Ripper, the Crows, the Bats, and the Monkeys – We’re All Shook Up – The Douglas Clan Scam Train Rolls On
The Julie Douglas camp is as dodgy as a trot camp comes. She’s the trainer on paper, but her husband Glenn is really in charge of the reins. Glenn relinquished his ticket because he and stable employee Ellen Tormey were fighting a DQ for drenching in the courts, so as is the time honoured custom […]
How the MRC Have Been Stooging the Caulfield Racecourse Reserve Trust So That Mike and His Mates Can Get Rich – And Richer
Under the trust deed that gives them the cheap land to sub-lease to Mike Symons and his friends so they can get richer and richer, the Melbourne Racing Club is required to provide open space facilities to the public on the Caulfield Racecourse Reserve. Things like outdoor recreational fitness facilities. BBQ and picnic facilities. Pedestrian […]
The First Casualty of the Caulfield Inner Track War is the Truth
You’ve probably heard all about the Melbourne Racing Club’s plan to build a second track inside Caulfield, and seen the reaction from the trainers and jockeys about it. They are right of course. CEO of the MRC Josh Blanksby – have you ever heard a more perfect name? – reckons that the new track will […]