Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
“Since I joined the Melbourne Racing Club, improving the performance of our tracks has been a clear priority. Our objective is to ensure MRC racecourses deliver among the best track surfaces in Australia, underpinned by strong internal leadership and external best-practice expertise.” – Tanya Fullarto, CEO Melbourne Racing Club Well if the MRC’s objective was […]
To call what Tony and Calvin McEvoy are doing with their French import Yellow Jersey on Saturday unorthodox is an understatement. They are dropping their Cox Plate hopeful who went horrible first up back from 1700m to 1400m. And at the same time stepping the frog up from a Listed to a Group 1. It’s […]
Emma Stewart continued her annual pillage of the Vicbred series last night at Melton by winning all four finals that she contested, and her stable taking home around $370 000 in prizemoney. That’s not as much as in previous years, due to HRV slashing stakes, but it’s still a pretty good night at the office. […]
Black Hex is, with all due respect to the horse and its connections, a walker and an absolute cat. In its ten start racing career prior to the 12th of June this year the cheaply bred 4YO gelding had only once ever run a place, in a weak maiden at Stony Creek on a Heavy […]
When you have three minutes spare take a look at the excerpt below from CEO Matt Isaacs address to Victorian harness racing industry participants at last week’s HRV annua presentation. Isaacs says that he and his HRV Chairman Bernard Saundry are meeting with the leaders of Harness Racing NSW to reshape the businesses, and says […]
The weekly costs to race a pacer or trotter are roughly the same in every state of Australia. Travel costs differ from state to state, but base costs of feed, rent, supplements, vets and equipment differ little. Which is why prizemoney matters so much, particularly in the main states of NSW, QLD, VIC and WA, […]
A fortnight ago Racing Victoria CEO Aaron Morrison (pictured above) was telling us that the proposed changes to gambling advertisement and inducement laws would slash 30% off betting turnover, and lead to the wholesale closure of country tracks. A Seld-Defeating Argument? – Racing Victoria CEO Needs to Be Careful What He Doesn’t Wish For, Because […]
The Shane Jackson trained Andy Win, which only had its first start over the sticks 3 months ago back in May, did the near impossible yesterday at Ballarat by taking out the Grand National Steeple at it debut over the bigger fences, completing the very rare GN Hurdle-Steeple double in the process, something only 2 […]
Racing Victoria Chief Executive Aaron Morrison has come out swinging against the Government’s proposed limits on gambling advertisements and the ban on promotions to punters, which the government calls inducements, claiming that it will result in a 30 percent decrease in wagering turnover and lead to job losses and the closure of country tracks. It […]
Jumps jockey Steven Pateman was handed a 16 heavyweight and jumps race suspension for careless riding leading to a fall in which the jockey in the white silks Aaron Lynch fell and broke his scapula in the race above at Warrnambool. You can’t see the fall because the Stewards edited the film to avoid showing […]
