Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last week we told you about how the NZ Group 1 winning mare Need You Now – now known as I Need You Know – hasn’t been able to go a yard since transferring over to Luke ‘the Duke’ McCarthy from the stables of leading Kiwi trainer John Dunn. I am not sure if we […]
Australia needs good government now more than ever. A country and a people as extraordinary as ours deserve a government to match. A government of competence and integrity. A government that doesn’t get out of the way but helps to create the way. A real government is the steering wheel of a nation, not just […]
This finish for 3rd in the first race at Beaudesert yesterday was close, but the outside looked to me to have margin on the one on its inner, and I rarely call photos wrong. Just ask Merv Butterworth if you don’t believe me. I called his horse home the winner over the line in the […]
I spoke to you in whispers As shells made the ground beneath us quake We both trembled in that crater A toxic muddy bloody lake I spoke to you and pulled your ears To try and quell your fearful eye As bullets whizzed through the raindrops And we watched the men around us die I […]
The Ben Yole stable gets away with terrible things in Tasmania. Race fixing rorts are probably the least of them, but gee they stick in your throat. Yole trained the three horses running 1-2-3 on the fence in the 5th race at Launceston on Saturday night. The trio were all owned by Yole and his […]
David Silver is the managing owner of the recent Bendigo BM100 race winner Flash Aah, who is my favourite horse, God only knows how he has that status, given that Silver is bankrupt, but he does, and all power to him too. I just wish he would let bygones be bygones, and set false pride […]
John Sheehan, known as Jack, was my great grandad. Jack died on the Western Front on Anzac Day 1918. His battalion saved England, and won the war. My great grandad was a hero. Tub thumping Tommy doesn’t think so. That’s because he’s not. With Anzac Day over, and the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign […]
Robert Heathcote should have been a politician, for he can spin a story in his favour almost as well as Warnie used to bowl leggies. The issue isn’t whether or not his horses that were scratched yesterday throw a positive swab to cobalt. That issue is totally irrelevant. Hemoplex is a prohibited substance, banned from […]
Have you ever in your life heard of a trot trainer winning 18 of their past 25 starts, at a strike rate of 72%? You have now. Emma Stewart’s done it. 18 winners in 10 days at 5 different tracks, and 4 placings too. One of the races she lost was to her other stable […]
One of the great unknowns about the new levies that Harness Racing Australia intend to impose on the owners or breeding rights holders of shuttle stallions or imported frozen semen is whether the peak body actually has the legal right to impose the additional charges. There is no doubt that HRA have a general right […]
