Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is increasing speculation in racing circles that if Gillon McLachlan is proven to have knowledge of the AFL’s drug testing cover-up practices – and to date he hasn’t been – it may cost him the long-mooted Chairman’s role at Racing Victoria. Racing is a sport that is dependent both on being free of drugs, […]
Race 1 at Melton was the biggest boatie I have ever seen in my life, I’m not pointing the finger of blame at any particular driver and saying they were responsible, I am just saying that this race was red hot and ten times hotter again. Take a look at the fluctuations. Little Louie was […]
Many people in racing are a bit confused by the reports of the Darren Weir & ors case, and can’t really follow the play. So we’ve decided to try and make it a bit easier to understand. The rule that Weir and the others are charged with is rule 229(1)(b), which is detailed below in […]
It is very, very difficult to see how the outside horse Wolfy could have won this race at Caulfield yesterday. Sure camera angles can be deceiving, but how is that not the inside horse Furious’nose that hit the line first here? Punters are blowing up all over the country about the judge’s decision. So they […]
The Highlight Reel wasn’t the only unraced Emma Stewart 2yo to look like a potential superstar at the trials. Another colt named Apollostorm did it too. This one, like his stablemate, beat the older 3yos senseless, absolutely pulverized them. He ran the mile in 1.55.4, with final splits slower that The Higlight Reel but almost […]
The Victorian government’s recently introduced laws prohibiting betting on outcomes that relate to the outcome of the performance of an individual minor (age 19 or below) in a sports betting event has sunk the century old tradition of punting on the foot races at the Stawell Gift, with the organisers of the event deciding that […]
Victorian racing identity Jonathon Munz got a bit of his own this morning when the coup he led against the Racing Victoria board fell flat on its face, with the man who sacked Craig Williams from Giga Kick’s team winning only 3 votes out of 35, leaving them well short of the 24 votes required […]
A forensic hunt is on for the $100 million missing from a Ponzi scheme that ripped off bikies, bookmakers and AFL heavyweights. Accountants have been called in to trace the money lost in the scam dubbed worse than the Melissa Caddick con. The stratospheric losses were discovered when AFL powerbroker and Melbourne lawyer John Adams […]
The champion trotter Just Believe’s lustre was ever so slightly dulled by his defeat by the French import Callmethebreeze last time out in the final of the Southern Star series, and some people – including those of my acquaintance – began to believe that the frog might just have the wood on him. After the […]
So The Lost Storm is scratched from Sunday’s heat of the Tasmanian Cup at Hobart because predictions of an impending real storm have caused the cancellation of his flight. Oh yeah, right. If that’s the case, how then are fellow Victorian runners in the heat Arggghhh, Modern Bliss, Hes Charlies Angel and Unltimate Vinnie able […]
