Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Steward’s don’t agree with me, but they couldn’t write a coherent report if their lives depended on it, so who’d listen to them? Craig Williams dropped his hands on Growing Empire in the final few strides of the Manikato on Friday night, and it arguably cost him the race. Even if it didn’t, it […]
In a highly unusual move, Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV) is requiring every registered participant in the State to undergo a National Police Check (NPS) and provide them with the results. Of particular note is that owners have to provide one too. That might stir the possum a bit, for there are more than a couple […]
Watch the horse on the inside in the blue and white colors of Julie Douglas. See what its driver Ryan Sanderson does at the 70m mark just when it looks a chance of sneaking up the inside to finish in 3rd or 4th place. If that’s not the drive of a reinsman who doesn’t want […]
You shouldn’t laugh about dangerous racing incidents, but what were the odds of Jamie Kah being involved in a near-accident while attempting to take a needle eye split on the rails in the same week that she was outed for 3 weeks for not taking one up the middle? If yesterday’s interference that lead to […]
We’re told that the crowd at Flemington on Saturday afternoon was so thin that you could driven a bulldozer through the lawn without any danger of knocking a person down. Sure it was an abysmal day weather wise, but the low turnout must still be a huge worry for the VRC as it heads in […]
Not long after we published our story about the missing Stewards Report from last Saturday night’s VicBred semi-finals at Melton, it finally went up. We learnt from it this. Emma Stewart has 39 starters in 11 races, with multiple runners in 10 of them. Only 3 of her 39 runners are pre-race swabbed. Only one […]
This mass fall at Yarra Glen yesterday was awful. The driver in the white colors catapulted high in the air is Paul Weidenbach. Paul landed very badly, and isn’t in a real good way. His mates tell us that he’s in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, where he is getting good care. Our thoughts are […]
Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack was found guilty of causing interference aboard Violet Stanford to her main rival Pinnie in the heat of the Vicbred Super Series 3YO Trotters Fillies semi-final at Geelong on Friday night, and outed for 7 days. The Stewards pinned Cracker for shifting out at the 400m causing interference to both Pinnie and […]
Jamie Kah has some big hurdles ahead to jump The news that Jamie Kah has been charged with failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to secure the best possible placing aboard Let’sfacethemusic in the McNeil Stakes ten days ago should come as a surprise to no-one. Despite the litany of excuses that Kah […]
If you’d backed Miss Aria in the last at the Valley yesterday you would have torn up your ticket at the 600m mark. I know I did. Horses just don’t come from that far back over 1200m on the saucer and win. It just doesn’t happen. Or it didn’t until yesterday. What an amazing win, […]
