Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Story by Sean Williams: Published October 27, 2025 Budimir Šobat had been lying face down in a swimming pool for around a quarter of an hour on March 27, 2021, when something strange happened: he fell asleep. Šobat, a 56-year-old professional freediver from Zagreb, Croatia, was aiming to break the world record for the longest […]
Remember the story we told you last week about the wagering services provider Betmakers recording a $26.4 million loss in the last financial year? That made the company’s total losses over the past 5 years a staggering $210 million. So did Betmakers sack the whole board for presiding over such a diabolical fiscal mess? No. […]
We continue to receive information that unlicensed trainer Todd Austin is preparing at least 7 horses at the Barcaldine track, and that he is doing it out of a car so he is not visible and can drive off undetected if by chance the Stewards unexpectedly arrive during trackwork hours. Those that know say that […]
Rocksie Rock had been backed from $8.00 into $1.80 to win the first race at Penrith last week. It wasn’t pre-race swabbed which I reckon was lucky, because the family have form. The horse didn’t. It had been going ordinary for a while now, about 3 months. There was nothing in its form to suggest […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PCM25102506.mp4 Hollywood Strip goes good but when is Portelli, and the others for that matter, going to learn to drive? He was no hope sitting parked outside Hollywood Strip, so why didn’t he go on with it? Keep going and if Hewitt has half a drivers brain he lets him go and then moves to […]
It is one of those uniquely racing ironies that Kate Waterhouse gives Peter V’Landys the biggest boost you could ever give a man, and does it without even speaking his name. When a society princess of Kate Waterhouse’s standing declares the race day you created the very best of good things, it is pretty high […]
It is with great sadness and through a river of tear that I share the terrible news that QLD racehorse trainer Glen Baker has lost his brave battle with cancer, and passed away last night. Glen was a very popular man in racing and beyond, and for very good reason. He was a great bloke […]
It is important to remember that proceedings such as these are not penal in nature. Unlike penalties in criminal cases where concepts such as retribution, denunciation and rehabilitation are of importance, civil penalties such as these are imposed primarily, if not solely, for the purposes of deterrence – Racing Appeals Panel* The Stewards inquiry into […]
Everyone is talking about the ride of James McDonald on Via Sistina to win the Cox Plate and rightly so, for it was a super steer that won the mare the race. Mark Zahra rode the perfect race on Buckaroo too, following J-Mac throughout the race and hooking around Via Sistina in plenty of time […]
How often do you see a 2-year-old pacer in a Group 1 classic attacked mercilessly in front and forced to run four sub-28 seconds quarters and still somehow manage to win the race? Not very often is the answer. Which makes what the Brad Hewitt trained Hollywood Strip did last night in taking out the […]
