Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
All week we’ve been hearing people bag out the Caulfield mounting yard. The connections of Pinstriped didn’t look too unhappy with it yesterday. I guess it’s just a matter of perspective. That and a Group 1 win.
Some are saying that Jamie Kah’s reluctance to push Let’sfacethemusic through a mile wide gasp in the McNeill Stakes was symptomatic of a recent trend of the star jockey being hesitant to place herself in a position of potential personal risk. I vehemently disagree. J. Kah is as brave as any jockey in the land. […]
Jamie Kah would have to have been kidding with her ride on Letsfacethemusic (yellow, pink sleeves, blue cap) in the McNeill Stakes wouldn’t she? You could have driven a semi trailer through the gap that presented to her in the middle in the straight. But I guess you’d have to want to. The Melbourne Stewards […]
Last night’s heats of the 3yo Vicbred Super Series at Kilmore shone a spotlight on everything that is wrong with Victorian harness racing. Here are the two major areas of concern. Unaffordability of the Series There were eight heats run, four for the males and four for the females. They carried total prizemoney of $10 […]
I’m a massive fan of jumps racing and always have been, but when you have seven horses die during the relatively short jumps racing season and three perish on the showpiece final day, plus a jockey in intensive care wife life shattering head injuries, it’s becoming hard to the point of impossible to mount an […]
The members at Caulfield are up in arms about the relocation of the mounting yard, and are calling for a spill of the board over the issue. How ridiculous. Who other than the ego stroking owners keen to be filmed or photographed with their expensive thoroughbred buys, or the track touts that claim to be […]
By Danny Russell August 18, 2024 — 9.56am Harness Racing Victoria has been accused of a “monumental failure of governance” that led to the sport’s governing body losing control of its $100 million land asset at Melton. Angry stakeholders claim HRV has borrowed so much money to keep the sport afloat over the past five […]
Eagle-eyed race watcher Coulthard from Coolum Beach has brought another T. Bailey stuff up to our attention, this one from race 5 at Sandown on Wednesday last week. Now I always thought that Smart Missile was a retired Group 2 winning sprinter who now stands at stud at Twin Hills, but according to the Saint […]
Sam Kilkenny is a the bloke who along with his then business partner set up the highly successful racehorse syndicator First Light Racing. Kilkenny, an accountant by trade who was a director of the firm Willis Partners, until recently used to be front, back and center promoting First Light, and was regularly seen at the […]
French jockey Mickaelle Michel (3rd in the grey and purple silks) was a wee bit upset about being chopped out by rider Jack Hill (teal stripes, white cap) when he came around and crossed her in a race at Hamilton late in May. At the conclusion of the race and continuing into the mounting yard […]
