Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Channel 7 is broadcasting Thrill of the Chase again … and advertisers aren’t happy. Ads are being placed during the program without the knowledge of companies. They are filler ads, decided by the TV station not by the advertiser. Once they’re informed, advertisers are quick to distance themselves from this industry spin program and greyhound […]
Uncle George and Aunty Dawn on their wedding day. Maureen Garrard (Angus’s Grandma), her sister Aunty Karen Shea and my Dad were in the bridal party. The 15 people Australia wide involved in the vegan activist group Coalition For the Protection of Greyhounds (CPG) are earnest, but not very bright. What you see above […]
Saintly Rose was backed from $15 into $10 in the third at Terang today. She was home at the 100m mark. And then this happened. Is it any wonder that all horse players die broke?
Well hasn’t it been a hell of a weekend in the COVID Vax Stakes at the tracks around Queensland? We’ve had the State’s leading race caller out of the box (the good news on that front is that the reports are that Josh Fleming is getting the jab this week), we’ve had some jockeys allowed […]
Lost amid all the excitement of the ID21 series and its aftermath is a landmark achievement by leading harness race owners Scott Whitton and Jodie Foster, the couple who race their horses under the Tumby Park banner and predominantly My Ultimate names. The victory of My Ultimate Lizzy at Newcastle night was Tumby Park’s 100th […]
A fortnight ago the new CEO of Harness Racing South Australia Mr Dean Elliott made a huge announcement about the future of the sport in the State. It’s rooted. Of course that is not what the CEO said, but why would you listen to a bloke who tries to tell you that cutting the prize […]
The big shock of the harness racing weekend was what seemed to be the terribly poor run of the New Zealand Cup hero Copy That in the Cranbourne Cup, a race in which New Zealand’s best pacer performed like mule, dropping out to run a conspicuous 36m last after what you would have to say […]
So this is the Greens plan. Shut down racing. Turn all race courses into parks. Rehabilitate all race horses. (From what? Are they meth heads, junkies, drunks or sex addicts? Even the geldings?) Rehome all the horses who have been to rehab. Retrain: jockeyswork riders stable hands strappers stewards starters swabbies barrier attendants clerks of […]
Race 8 at Albion Park last night. The pre-post favourite is owned in by our old mates from Summit Bloodstock and Luke McCarthy, and is trained and driven by the McCarthy’s man in the north Ricky Thurlow, all three mates of the Albion Park CEO. It’s name is Shadow Minister, and it is drawn in […]
I think we might have seen the last Alligator Blood, or if all was fair in love, war and racing we should have anyway. The Alligator was terrible in the listed Loch Neagh today, absolutely atrocious. Baylee Nothdurft gave him a great run on the leaders back, and for about a tenth of a second […]
