Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Chariots of Fire winner the Dazzler, second from left in the front row wearing no 7, back in the glory days when he was slim DW Graham hadn’t trained a winner all year, and most people thought that the old bloke (I can say that because we’re the same age) with 4 Group 1’s, 2804 […]
Roy Chillemi trains for leading FNQ owner and all round dodger Tom Hedley, who is a very sharp man with a dollar. Chillemi entered the Hedley owned Valenki for the Open Handicap at Cairns on Thursday. Given that it was the highest rated horse in the field by far, Valenki – who had raced 3 […]
Sussan Ley’s biggest fan, a famous Riverina bookmaker, today came across the One Nation candidate to fill her recently abandoned electoral seat. Pauline’s bloke offered Ley’s man an orange shirt to wear around town to support his candicacy. Bookies being bookies and always looking for overs, our man said sure, and copped the freebie as […]
The news hot out of the NSW Supreme Court is that the three harness racing Ford brothers – Nathan, Mitchell and Tyler – charged with serious drug offences in NSW have this afternoon been granted bail. At this stage we don’t know the terms of their interim release from jail or what bail conditions the […]
Detente – the easing of hostility or strained relations The Australian Turf Club and Racing NSW seem to have struck some form of detente. Racing NSW have agreed to continue to provide the ATC with discretionary funding over and above the club’s guaranteed TB profit distributions to pay for the big races over the rest of the Autumn carnival. In return […]
The race meeting at Innisfail in North QLD this weekend is in grave danger of being scrubbed. At the close of nominations the five races on the card had the following numbers: 3, 3, 5, 4, 3. In QLD you need five acceptors for a race to go ahead. As it presently stands that means 4 […]
Our story earlier today about the Joe Pride/Belynda Kliese horse mix-up has sparked an instant reaction from readers. None of them are blaming Joe Pride. Here are some of their thoughts below. ————————————————————- Are we actually defending A couple who claim to have been in the industry since young children/teenagers now late 40s/50s and couldn’t […]
We have written extensively about horses connected to the McMullen clan recently improving their best times by huge margins, and here is yet one more example. Havetimetodream came across from NZ to join the Chantal Turpin/Peter McMullen stable late last year as a 4 start maiden with a best time of around 1.58.5 run on […]
Sunshine Coast trainer Stuart Kendrick has been fined just $5000 for his third breach of the substance rule in the past 12 months. Kendrick’s fine was for presenting his horse Savannah Gangster to race with the painkiller Meloxicam and the anti-inflammatory Flunixin in its system, the same offence that he was fined $3000 for in […]
North QLD trainer Belynda Kliese bought a 3yo bay filly named Dark Fae in an online auction. At the time of the sale the filly was trained by Joe Pride, who logic suggests must have been the person in charge of her. Dark Fae was sent north to the buyer by the seller. Or so […]
