Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You can understand an outfit like Racing Queensland having one, or maybe two, lawyers on staff to deal with matters of legislative and contractual importance, but four? That’s weird. This was taken from the Racing Queensland website yesterday. I think it might be yet another of those clerical errors that seem to permeate the operations […]
Do you reckon Johnny Brash isn’t one of the great Australian race callers? Because Bunny calls the dogs a lot of people under-rate how good he really is, but don’t be fooled by their ignorance. J. Brasch is a gun. You try to pick this photo in real live time while verbally painting a vivid […]
The good news of the day is that Australia’s best three-year-old, the Queensland born and bred Leap to Fame, has finally received his invitation to race in the Rising Sun, three months after he should have been a shoo in to be the first horse invited. Given that my suspicion has long been that the […]
Given that the we’re right in the middle of the high-profile murder trial of the same name, the pacer Teacher’s Pet was the best named horse all night at Redcliffe on Wednesday, and quite possibly the omen bet of the century too when it took out the 2nd heat of the Trot Rods. Sadly the […]
I have this strange hobby cum passion, one shared by few, and understood by less, even myself. I like watching Royal Commission hearings, or any Commission of Inquiry really. I find it fun, which is weird I know, but some people collect stamps and others go to vantage points near the airport every day and […]
Photo: Willie Lincoln on January 2, 1924 when he won by 20 lengths at the Southland Racing Club meeting as “Look Out”. A notorious ring-in case involving a well performed pacer Willie Lincoln played out at a Southland Racing Club meeting 98 years ago. The story began when Willie Lincoln was entered for a race […]
Pay your stallion levy or else …. Disappearance of the Tassie Racing Integrity Review Whatever has happened to the Tasmanian Government instituted review of racing integrity functions and the governance structure of the sport in the State that is being conducted by Dale Monteith, the Chairman of HRV? Submissions by the public and industry members […]
The McDowell family of Allied Express fame have put a huge amount of money into harness racing over five decades, and won some real good races along the way too. Through the Allied Express company they are one of the biggest sponsors of the sport in NSW, and passionate devotees of it too, not that […]
Alex Ashwood was training winners at a rate of 30% plus up until a month ago. Something has happened though. From his last 25 starters Ashwood’s won only 3 races. Is it just bad luck? Or has Fed Ex stopped delivering bottles from America with funny labels to Bendigo?
Santa and the reindeer brothers grim What happened yesterday when the Stewards allowed a race to start while a distressed horse was lying stricken on the ground stuck under the gates was an outrage, an absolute disgrace. They did it because the race was running real late, and they didn’t want to lose their spot […]
