Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I don’t know how trainer Troy Williams – Twilliams – does it. You know the story about Idle Hands, he’s the old walker who had won one race from his past 100 starts when he joined the Twilliams stable at age 11 and 3/4, immediately won 3 in a row, and has won 4 of […]
Trying to understand how any highly paid web designer could come up with the idea of creating a scrambled egg of website like Racing Queensland’s is a huge struggle. No, it’s impossible. What brain surgeon of the IT world could possibly look on at the RQ site and proudly pronounce to world “I did this? […]
Race 5 at Gloucester Park in WA on Friday night was a horror show. The second favourite McCardles Gem driven by it’s trainer Brett Smith was drawn in gate 2. $10 shot Cavalry Call was drawn the pole. Emily Suvaljko was it’s driver, and unsurprisingly she wanted the lead, for the horse had won the […]
The word running around Melbourne town is that a self-proclaimed trot form analyst who is very fond of excessive hand waving and gazing at their image in the mirror may have been caught getting up to sackable mischief in the lavatories during a recent work Xmas party. It is said that his employers are not […]
I am not sure that I have ever seen a bigger hook job than Turbo Trainor’s drive on Stravinsky in the first at Newcastle on Sunday. At the vert least Turbo’s steer was the deadest of the year. At worst it was absolutely criminal. Stravinsky is a speedy type with a lot of class, who […]
You’d have to think so. After all, official trials and jump outs are run under the same rules of racing. Rafferty’s rules. Or none at all.
This is how you run official jump outs. It’s heat 18 at Clifford Park on Tuesday. Keep your eye on the horse out the back of the barriers. That’s brilliant work isn’t it? Has anyone got a hammer? I feel like hitting myself in the head.
I rang the NSW Stewards room this morning to clarify matters regarding the McCarthy and Morris suspensions, and their effect on ID21. By sheer chance the Chairman of Stewards Mr Clint Bentley happened to answer the phone. Mr Bentley was kind enough to field my questions and provide on the record answers. These are they […]
There is something rather curious about the 2020/21 annual report and financial accounts of the Cairns Jockey Club. Well a few things really. The first is that some directors of the club – namely Greg Stanton and Scott Carpenter – provide in kind (i.e. free) professional services to the club in their field of calling, […]
