Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Victoria Cup – once known as the Winfield Cup, back in the dim, dark days when cancer stick companies were allowed to advertise their killer wares – has been a fixture on the Australian feature trot race calendar since 1975. Some great horses have won the race, with the honour roll featuring a who’s […]
The Lost Storm and Catch a Wave were the 2 biggest names on the card at Melton last night, the former in a heat of the Vic Derby, the latter in the prestigious Group 3 Smoken Up. Jason Bonnington tipped them b0th as good things, and he wasn’t alone, with many tipping them as across […]
Two months ago the high class race race mare Carlas Pixel was sold on-line at the Gavelhouse auction for $300 grand. One of the big hooks for the buyer was that the mare was said to be in foal to Captain Treacherous. Just 2 months earlier a yearling colt by the Captain out of the […]
How was it that the Stewards report for the semi-finals of the rich Sires Stakes series run at Melton last Saturday week were not published, and still never have been? What on earth is going on down in Victoria under the leadership of the hopelessly slack Chief Steward Peter Chadwick? Surely publishing Official Stewards Reports […]
It’s a cracker of a meeting at Melton this weekend with the semi-finals of the Breeders Crown series at various ages and sexes filling the massive 12 race card. Emma Stewart dominates the entries with 36 horses nominated across 11 of the semis, and she can be expected to win a minimum of 5 of […]
This is one of the lounge suites in the members area at the Valley. Fair dinkum, no bull. What an embarrassment. It might be time to give Gerry Harvey a call I reckon. He’s got a few good lounges on special at the moment.
I don’t know where Jason Bonnington has been for the past 2 months, but gee we are glad he is back because we were worried about the kid. Bonno is clearly okay though, back in full throttle with nothing changed. No-one knew what what the hell he was on about before he went for a […]
We wrote recently about how Peter ‘The Plodder’ Chadwick hadn’t posted a Stewards Report for a trot meeting he was in charge of a week after it had been run and won. Well here is another one. There was a metro meeting held two Saturday nights ago at Melton. It is our understanding that the […]
Racing Victoria’s highly embarrassing backdown on its whip free so called Big Bash style Summer racing series sounds the death knell for Andrew Jones short reign as CEO, and after his “I couldn’t care” comments about what the industry thought about his plans no-one in racing will shed any tears when the arrogant fool goes. […]
“Not a lot goes on in the half hour or hour before a race meeting, so it was as much a practical decision as anything,” MRC Executive Director, Racing and Operations Jake Norton said. “It is an attempt to be more efficient.” The Melbourne Racing Club owns and operates the Caulfield, Sandown and Mornington tracks. […]
