Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What sort of nonsense is this? RISA have registered the name Brave Warrior to a horse who isn’t him. The naming rules are deficient. Eric Kirwan’s Brave Warrior – the real Brave Warrior – won the Magic Millions, the Gloaming, the Phar Lap Stakes and the Golden Rose, among others. Buit none of the winners […]
Yeah, yeah. I know. Before anyone starts emailing or texting about 2 lays for 2 lashings I have one thing to say. Two actually. Tortoise and Hare. And it’s a long game.
One-time Cox Plate contender Gold Trip has been scratched again – this time by the stable just hours out from Saturday’s $750,000 Rosehill Gold Cup (2000m). A week after being eliminated from Cox Plate contention by the order of Racing Victoria vets, trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have elected to scratch Gold Trip due […]
He is a real journalist Nathan Exelby. Just ask him. He will tell you. He swears it in affidavits when bagging racing writers like me. Nathan did a single journalism unit in his Sports Science degree at ANU, where he had to go because he didn’t have a high enough TE score to get into […]
What does integrity mean to you? In plain terms it means doing what is always right and in all circumstances of your life. Integrity in harness racing provides the foundation for the industry to not only survive but grow and prosper into an industry that we can all enjoy and are reliant on. This is what […]
Gold Trip has been scratched from the Rosehill Gold Cup. That’s the 2nd race in 2 weeks across 2 states that he been pulled out of. Perhaps the Victorian were right, and he is lame after all. More to follow.
There are only two tips today, and only lays too. They’re in the same races. Back and lay boys and girls, back and lay. Race 6 – Masked Crusader The best sprinter in Australia in my view. The 1300m is no problem. He was enormous over the same trip in the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes […]
Flemington Race 3 – The Wakeful – YEARNING This is one serious racehorse. Her win the 1000 Guineas was outstanding. Don’t worry about the fact she’s by Snitzel. Her mum is Rising Romance, who won the ATC Oaks and ran 2nd in the Mackinnon. She will get the 2000 no worries. Kapalua Sunset, El Patroness […]
Ten years ago today Danny Nikolic rode Sistine Angel into 13th place in the Group 1 Empire Rose Classic, then known as the Myer Stakes. Nikolic’s regular mount was Mosheen, but he couldn’t make the three-year-old filly’s light weight of 49.5kg, so Craig Williams took the mount instead. Mosheen ran 6th. Five days later she […]
