Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You couldn’t watch Mark Du Plessis’s ride on Blaze Seven in race at Ipswich this afternoon without a single word flashing across your brain in big bright lights. That word? Dead. Blaze Seven was backed from $6.50 into $4.40. Du Plessis gave it the perfect ride in the early to mid stages, popping it in […]
Can anyone tell me the actual point of raising the Golden Slipper prizemoney from $3.5 million to $5 million? Is it going to attract a single extra horse to the race that was already the richest 2YO race in the world? Will it improve the quality of the Slipper one inch? Are punters going to […]
Robbie Easton was the $1.80 favourite from the pole in race 4 at Gloucester Park. As far as I can see he has never galloped in his life, or at least not in his 50 career starts anyway. He did tonight. The fave led easily from the inside draw, was a length in front by […]
Racing Queensland is paying a company named On The Bit Racing a staggering six-figure sum to act as broker to arrange live streams of non-TAB races on the internet. It is a noble idea that we all wanted to see happen, but they are wasting their time. On The Bit used to be a community […]
Former policeman and well known racing and sporting identity Jeff Kelly, son of a QLD Hall of Fame rugby league star, lost his mum the day after the Cox Plate. Iris was her name. By all reports she was a Hall of Famer too. Jeff’s mate John Lingard wrote a short but poignant tribute to […]
This article below that appeared in the Shepparton News in late 2017 sums up Nathan Jack’s problem getting his license back far better than I ever could. I make no comment at all on the matter, other than to remind you of the much lower evidential test in HRV hearings as opposed to criminal appeal […]
