Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A death on the track was narrowly avoided in the Group 1 Wellington Cup yesterday. No it wasn’t a fall. It wasn’t even a horse. It was a pukeko. The luckiest pukeko ever. If I was that little blue fella I’d be off to the newsagent to buy myself a lotto ticket.
Those tricky buggers from Harness Racing NSW have spliced the film so you can’t see it and I can’t show you, so you will have to rely on my accuracy and honesty here rather than evidence of your own eyes I am afraid. Trust me though, what I am about to tell you is 100 […]
Remember the story we told you a couple of weeks ago about a horse called High Flying Harry, and how we believed the Racing Integrity Board Adjudicator Olivia Jarvis – the partner of a lawyer who is friendly with the horse’s trainer John Dunn – had erred badly by not finding that the driver Korbyn […]
Kodai was examined by the vet before the first race at Innisfail because it hadn’t run for a rather long period of time. It was only 655 days, what are they talking about? The vet from the Tableland Vet Service examined the mare and passed her fit to run. You wouldn’t want to be taking […]
I am sure it will surprise no-one who knows me to learn that I have lost my phone again. So if you are trying to call, don’t bother. Please send an email instead.
Back when the Brisbane gallops steward Paul Zimmerman and I used to sit in class together at school we were both far more interested in reading the form guide that we used to conceal inside our textbooks than reading the actual books themselves like we were supposed to. I made up for it by reading […]
After watching the first race at the Sunshine Coast yesterday I turned to my punting mate and commented that the inside was off on this wet Soft 7 track. It wasn’t the observation of a genius, it was a simple fact that was plain for everyone in the world to see, and of course it […]
The track record holder for the 2536 metre trip at Gloucester Park is Vampiro, who ran a mile rate of a very fast 1.54.1 in setting it back in December of 2020. Vampiro’s lead time that night was 67.3 seconds. Minstrel gave the record a bit of a half nudge when he won the Group […]
If you’d backed Back In Twenty last night you were feeling pretty good about yourself coming to the home turn. It was the horse behind the leader on the inside. And then this happened. Ouch.
