Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
William Samuel Cox, the bloke the Plate is named after The great problem with this weekend’s Cox Plate is that its not being run at Moonee Valley. The Plate is the Valley, and the Valley is the Plate. They exist in symbiosis, and one without the other is nothing much at all other than an […]
Perhaps I am old fashioned, or maybe I am just being harsh, but I have seen better Cox Plate fields than this one. Sure we get that they have won plenty of Group 1’s between them, but are the names of Sir Delius, Aeliana, Ceolwulf, Warwoven or Cosmic Crusader ever likely to feature in the […]
Well you can see sort of see here what happened in the Caulfield Cup, even without the benefit of the head on footage, which is being hidden. You get it at half pace in the video below. Then at super slow pace below. This is a video worth watching. It helps you to understand that […]
I’ve watched a lot of Victoria Cups run at the trots in my time, but never do I recall seeing one featuring a favorite as short as the Jason Grimson trained Captains Mistress is in this year’s edition of the time honored Group 1 being run at Melton on Saturday night. $1.12 the bookies have […]
The Victorian pacing Derby and Oaks finals are being contested at Melton this weekend, and after having suffered the odd experience of witnessing their counterparts in NSW being run over a mile it is great to see the Vics continuing to run the 3yo classics over 2760m like they should our opinion be. Call me […]
Melbourne Racing Club CEO Tanya Fullerton’s declaration that an internal review of Saturday’s Caulfield track debacle found no fault with the club or the track has been Fullarton claims variously that the track was totally safe to race and any opinions to the contrary are ‘nonsense’, that the jockeys who said it wasn’t don’t understand […]
“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 […]
