Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well I have to say that I have enormous trouble believing this one. Mach the Knife is an 8-year-old retired light bay gelding that was stood down from racing in February, and hasn’t graced a track since. Steeven is a 4YO darkish bay gelding. The don’t look a whole lot alike. Or at all really. […]
Why the hell in the modern age does Racing Victoria sanction and support the holding of an divisive event like a racing mass to celebrate the Spring Carnival? Mass is a Catholic thing. Only 20 percent of Australians identify as Catholic. About 1/6th of them attend church, which means that only 3% of Australians do, […]
As you might have realised, for various reasons I have a bit of a thing for the racing rules. It is weird interest I know, but if people are going to use rules against you then you need to know and understand them better than the people, otherwise they are going to beat you up. […]
What a joke the Inglis Pink Bonus scheme is. It was designed to attract more female owners into racing, just like the Magic Millions Racing Women’s bonus was, but what it has turned out to be was entirely predictable from before it started. New women aren’t coming into racing. Their rich husbands or brothers or […]
So the trotter Holzarte Vedaquais (HV) is purchased for a fortune in France, Tim Butt makes his usual huge clip on the ticket, HV travels half way around the world to record a duck egg at Maryborough, then it wins a shit NR52 midweek race worth $3 990 against walkers at Yarra Valley, and Harness […]
Profit: And Pigs Fly The undisputed heavyweight clown prince has been at it again this week. I speak of course of Jason Bonnington, the man who when he is not falling off horses, kicking his bet homes like a demented loon, justifying juxtapositions and critical correlations in his near unintelligible rambling column on thetrots.com has […]
The mail is that J-Mac and his form people have identified our boy Sharp N Smart as the pea for the Victoria Derby. Sources close to the Mac tell us that his agent approached trainer G. ‘Rogie’ Rogerson for the ride this week after learning that J.H. Bowman was staying in Sydney to ride in […]
Look at the first ‘expert’ report by Racing Victoria’s vet Dr Grace Forbes into the alleged administration of a milkshake by trainer Shawn Mathick to one of his horses. It was made on 14 October 2019, and this is is what is says: “In my opinion, the two most likely possible explanations for the modest […]
Another rumour currently floating around involves the Maryborough Harness Racing Club. It also involves a well known OAM (not Kevin Seymour, he holds a higher honour), and the Victorian Harness Racing Club, which at present is a harness racing club only in name. This whisper on the wind suggests that discussions are currently being held […]
There is word going around that former QLD Chief Thoroughbred Steward Peter Chadwick may not in fact be lost to the game at all, as previously speculated. It seems soccer is not all that appealing to him. The whispers are that he is in the frame for the Harness Racing Victoria Chief Steward’s job. Surely […]
