Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We will set the issue of the self-proclaimed ‘expert’ sporting analogist Jason Bonnington’s utter humiliation of himself by wrongly declaring the Hagler-Hearns 1985 world middleweight title bout a 12 round slug fest in the Sun-Herald yesterday aside (it actually went 3 round, and ended in a TKO), and instead focus on the nonsense he spouted […]
I like taking note of quotes from smart men too. In racing, they are generally men who can count. After all, it’s a game of numbers and percentages isn’t it? A reduction in turnover from $160 million to $60 million isn’t a loss of 60%. It’s a drop of 62.5%. A 60% reduction would have […]
The W.S. Cox Plate is Australia’s greatest weigh-for-age race, and one of the top 15 races in the world. It is a national icon of racing, and the 2nd most coveted all aged prize in Australian racing behind the Melbourne Cup. The honor board board of winners of the race is a who’s who of […]
There are two schools of thought about the former Kiwi pacer Cranbourne’s win in last night’s Shepparton Cup. One is that it was the boat race from hell. It certainly looked like it. The other is that Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack simply bluffed and bullied his rival drivers into submitting to his will, and ground them […]
You have never seen a Group 1 win in your life like that of the Emma Stewart trained The Lost Storm in the final of Group 1 Vicbred Super Series at Melton last night. Everyone used to think that the Mark Purdon trained Akuta’s 10 length win in the Group 1 two-year-old Harness Jewels at […]
Tonight at Melton they run the finals of the rich Vicbred Super Series, with each of the six pacing finals worth $130 000 in prizemoney. I’m running a sweepstakes on how many of them the Emma Stewart/Clayton Tonkin stable will win. My guess is five. Stewart has 8 of the 12 starters in the 3YO […]
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fields/race-fields/?mc=CR121222 Go race 3 on this program. Hit replay. Then skip forward to the 1min 52 second mark and push play. Watch the driver of the horse on the leader’s back, the one in the pink. In particular watch him in the straight. Do you reckon he tries to win or lose? If your answer […]
The Victorian Stewards have this afternoon created a metropolitan racing precedent by taking race 5 at Flemington off one of the joint dead heat winners My Yankee Girl after determining that the mare’s rider Blake Shinn had breached the whip rules to such an extent that he had gained a decided unfair advantage over the […]
There were 3 vets on duty for the finals of the Inter Dominion on Saturday night. One was Dr Richard Cust. His son Andrew is a vet at the Ballarat Equine Clinic. Dr Andrew Cust is also Emma Stewart’s vet. Isn’t that great? No conflict of interest there, is there? Gimme a break. It gets […]
When Tosel Basil died in December 2018 racing.com – presumably relying on advice from either Ozzie Kheir or Darren Weir – reported that the horse had been spelled after a disappointing rub in the Mooney Valley Cup. That race was run on the 26th of October 2018. Yet on 30 October – four days later […]
