Sunday Bloody Sunday – What Do These Four Blokes Have in Common?
Grimace and the Hamburglar (above). It’s all a bit cryptic we know, but someday soon you will understand.
Has Clive Got COVID?
There has been one of those ‘huge’ political controversies this week involving Clive Palmer, the kind that the big fella attracts like honey pulls bees. This time it was about the ABC refusing to televise Clive’s campaign launch because Aunty says it doesn’t want to promote ant-vax views. That’s good of them. They give airtime […]
God Save the Queen – And Her Queens Men
The Federal Government, has announced Australia will participate in celebrating the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. The Board of Club Menangle considered how the club could participate in the Platinum Jubilee at the local level acknowledging Her Majesty’s role in Australia for seventy years as monarch and head of the armed services. […]
Further To Our Story About Why the Wonder Kid Shouldn’t Have Been Allowed to Claim at Caloundra
We have had a couple of calls since we put up the story about Jaden Lloyd being allowed to claim 2 kilos off Hatchet’s weight when he replaced the over weight Ryan Maloney at the last minute in the $127 500 QTIS 3YO Handicap at Caloundra on Saturday, and most of them are saying that […]
Rider at QLD Saturday Metro Race Meeting Weighs in 2 Kilos Light – And the Chief Stewards Let Him Do It – When the Clowns are Running the Circus, the Whole Town’s Just a Joke
The rule that is printed at the top of this page relates to the replacement of riders at race meetings, in situations where for whatever reason one jockey cannot meet their declared commitment to take the mount, and another jockey must ride it instead. The words in the rule are simple and clear – another […]
The Horse That Disappeared Into Thin Air
A horse named Our Mantra failed to finish in the Kangaroo Island Cup on Saturday. The five Stewards on a sojourn to the island for a weekend away must have all been watching Justin Huxtable making a goose of himself by standing up in the irons to give the salute and then promptly falling off, […]
You’re a (S)Hocker Too Turbo
What about his left boot sir! Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainer is like the girl in the ZZ Top song. He’s got legs, and he knows how to use them. He’s got legs, and knows how to bruise them. Poor old Krug copped a good right boot in the back end on the home turn on the […]
Bright Sparks, Bent Blokes and Birds, Bicarb and Easy Bucks – Welcome to Adelaide – Part 1 – A Little Lesson About Buckets and Batteries
See the horse above named Ghent? The one that has been backed from $7.00 into $3.50 without any falcons passing on a tip. It is trained by Gaita Pullicino. Gaita and/or her son have been banned from harness racing in just about every State in Australia, bar South Australia, which issued her a license to […]
Bright Sparks, Bent Blokes and Birds, Bicarb and Easy Bucks – Welcome to Adelaide – Part 2 – A Ghent(s) All Odds
Ghent is a trotter. He is usually not a very good one. That is because he is slow, and 11 years old. In 10 starts this season until yesterday, this Gaita Pullicino trained old bloke hadn’t run a single place in a race. So it was a surprise when all these folk of Maltese and […]
Kicking a Horse? – That’s (S)Hocking! – B B B B Bad to the Bone
Gavin Fitzpatrick booted Bad to the Bone in the back leg just inside the 200 metre mark in the first race at Menangle on Saturday night, in a vain attempt to kick it on into first place, pardon the pun. He did it right in front of the crowd, and in full view of the […]