Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Do you remember the story we told you last week about how jockey Tash Chambers was fined only $200 for smacking her mount in the head after it stepped on her foot when they returned to the enclosure after the race? Well the animal activists are blowing up big time about the light penalty, and […]
As we tipped you earlier in the week, just weeks after extolling his own and the organization’s (debatable) achievements at Harness Racing Victoria’s annual presentation, CEO Matt Isaacs is leaving the building. The official reason given is that Isaacs has decided not to renew his contract, as he has decided that now is the best […]
The Brisbane Racing Club has reported a $4.7 million profit for the 2025/26 financial year, which is wonderful. But are things all as rosy as they seem? The money is hard to follow in the annual report for an outsider, but here are some of key metrics of concern. Last year the BRC had $15.9 […]
How does a Brisbane based race club spend $158 778 in a year on travel and accommodation expenses for just eight directors? Where do the octet go? Why? Where do they stay? You can bet your life that it’s not at the YMCA. I get that the directors are honorary, meaning unpaid, and that they […]
Thou Shalt Not Trouser Thy Jailed Mate’s Money Which colourful Brisbane racing identity, who in a former life was colourful NSW police officer, has for the past year or so been in charge of delivering money collected in the passed around hat to another colourful former NSW police officer that is presently on holiday as […]
You wouldn’t have wanted to be a trot punter chasing a cheap multi with either or both of Grant Dixon’s odds on shots in it at Albion Park on Tuesday. Fredidrivsamercury was the first one. It started at $1.28. Anyone who took it was mad, for Fredi was a 3yo taking on older horses, and […]
Memo to the Marburg trot Stewards. When your idiot’s guide to writing a race day report says “Delete if nothing to report”, you really should do it. Otherwise you look silly. And so does the organization that has to tell you what to do. As Homer Simpson says. D’oh.
In the space of a few weeks horse trainer Kristie Clark-Peoples has risen from relative obscurity to seemingly being featured prominently on the QRIC’s Top 10 wanted list. If you want a cryptic clue as to why, then remember that some years ago Clark-Peoples broke in a later classy Asian galloper called Gingerbread Man. Say […]
The season proper is started. Spring has sprung. It’s Underwood day this Saturday, for mine the real start of the second greatest racing carnival on earth, Royal Ascot being number one. Which makes you realise what a crowded market we have at the top end of the stayers training ranks in Australia, one absolutely dominated […]
Richard Callander in his Racenet column this week declares Sheza Alibi an absolute gimme to win the Golden Eagle at Rosehill in seven weeks time. As good as she is – and Sheza Alibi’s top class, there is no question about that – Richie has gone the crow too early and overlooked one rather important […]
