Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Victorian trot trainer Tim McGuigan is 56 years of age, and has been training since season 1986/87. Over the course of that 35 years his strike rate has been 8% the win and 22% the place. All of sudden in his golden years McGuigan is this year hitting winners at double the rate (17%) and […]
Oh dear. What sort of drive was this by Greg Sugars on the $1.35 favourite La Captain in the 8th race at Ballarat last night? It was all pretty early, with the Candy Man popping the 3’s on shot off the rail into the running line, and then shooting it around the field toward the […]
Ben Currie had the Queensland Trainer of the Year award that he had earned denied to him because he was DQ’d. Darren Weir did too. Fair enough many people would say, although not me. Different rules apply at the trots. David Moran is serving 7 months for a raft of different offences, all of them […]
The Julie Douglas camp is as dodgy as a trot camp comes. She’s the trainer on paper, but her husband Glenn is really in charge of the reins. Glenn relinquished his ticket because he and stable employee Ellen Tormey were fighting a DQ for drenching in the courts, so as is the time honoured custom […]
Under the trust deed that gives them the cheap land to sub-lease to Mike Symons and his friends so they can get richer and richer, the Melbourne Racing Club is required to provide open space facilities to the public on the Caulfield Racecourse Reserve. Things like outdoor recreational fitness facilities. BBQ and picnic facilities. Pedestrian […]
You’ve probably heard all about the Melbourne Racing Club’s plan to build a second track inside Caulfield, and seen the reaction from the trainers and jockeys about it. They are right of course. CEO of the MRC Josh Blanksby – have you ever heard a more perfect name? – reckons that the new track will […]
What a balls up this whole Caufield racecourse thing is, a shambles of epic proportions. We will tell you about it later. Right now we want to tell you about the great rock n roll Caulfield rort. Do you remember Mike Symons, the former Chairman of the Melbourne Racing Cluband owner of Aquanita Racing? The […]
Brendon McCoull is one of Tasmania’s leading jockeys. He only takes his saddle off the island once every half blue moon, almost always on a Saturday and only when he has a good ride in Melbourne on a horse like Bello Beau who has travelled over the straight from home to have a crack. McCoull’s […]
Has the world gone mad or have I? Aquanita Racing were running a systematic doping operation for the better part of a decade until a security guard having a smoke out the back spotted Greg Nelligan drenching a horse, and brought their whole house of wicked cards crashing down. Seven people involved in Aquanita were […]
So who is this company The Hairy Pill? The Hairy Pill is just a business name. The outfit that owns it is called The Hairy Company Pty Ltd. The private company with 2000 issued shares and three directors, that trio also being the shareholders. The non-paying bookie Noah Rose owns 7000 of the shares. He’s […]
