Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Toowoomba trainer Matt Boland hasn’t been seen at the track since January. He was seen at the QRIC offices a fortnight ago copping a $2000 fine for a positive swab to steroids (wtf?), but he seems to have no horses and to have left the game. If what we have been told about the fate […]
Some people say we are picking on On The Bit Racing for nefarious reasons. Well let me tell you were are not. On The Bit Racing receives many hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money by way of contract payments from Racing Queensland, a government entity, for producing the broadcast of country race meetings. […]
Now CEO Brendan ‘Pins’ Parnell and his crew at Racing Queensland have abandoned the rescheduled race meeting at Townsville that they had abandoned the day before. Racing administration north of the Tweed just goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. The maximum temperature predicted by the BOM for Cowboy City tomorrow is 32 degrees. That […]
The eyes of the sporting nation were on Ipswich yesterday, as a race that no-one bar committed punters would ever have known was being run became one of the most watched sporting events in the land, and all because the favourite Sacred Oath was part-owned by a national hero who we lost in terribly unexpected […]
The damage to the reputation of an entertainer charged in a global sting targeting organised crime would be permanent even if he was named and then found not guilty, a lawyer has said. The entertainer was arrested in June, alongside about 40 others across the country, following the sting. He appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday seeking […]
Penrith v Manly The Panthers have the home ground advantage, but that is about all they have got. They have lost both of their Grand Final winning centres, the hugely under-rated pair of Matt Burton and Paul Momirovski – who btw is going to be a superstar at the Roosters – to transfers, and super […]
This is a story about the art of the spruik, and it’s master. I would have called Gai Waterhouse it’s mistress, only I am a modern new age feminist turned gender equality junkie, and Gai lays down for no-one except through marriage, love and duty, or because she wants to, and then only with Robbie. […]
The first casualty of war is the races. Then they cut off the internet, and you can’t punt. All of the rest of the real bad stuff happens after that, but by then I would have given up. Make peace and love, not war. Everyone needs to punt. And to stay alive to do it […]
Will He Rock (Willy) is a 4-year-old New Zealand pacer. Willy’s also a walker. Prior to today he Willy had raced 14 times. He had run duck egg – tenth or worse – including at of his ten past starts. Eighth were the other two. Willy’s average beaten margin over those ten starts was more […]
It appears that my eldest daughter got the Edgar Britt’s when I mentioned her younger sister in a story about International Women’s Day published on the site yesterday. Not because her sister was in it – they are closer than 2 vegemite cruskets stacked – but ‘cos she wasn’t. The phone rings. “Hello” I say. […]
