Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
All sorts of good people come up to visit the bride and I up here at Chez Butterfly in Port Douglas, most of them from NSW, Victoria and South Australia. Bookmakers, Group 1 winning jockeys, Melbourne Cup winning trainers, Stewards, heavyweight champion boxers, top ten singers, multi millionaire business people, pro punters, career crims, top […]
Clip Clop Kev has hit the news up here in Paradise (Port Douglas) as the developer of a new estate on the road into town opposite the Sheraton Mirage. What the Port Douglas reporters don’t realize is that Mr Seymour has been up here forever. He owned a super flash villa in the Mirage complex […]
It was only a trial at the Gold Coast on Tuesday, but gee this 2YO looked good. And with a name like that why wouldn’t he? How gracious of Jay Bellamy was it to name his horse after this website? After all, we named the site after the horse that beat his family’s great champion […]
Mature age apprentice Tom Orr (pictured above) clearly has some problems with his weight, but the young man has to stop wasting or it could do him serious long-term damage. Orr’s registered riding weight is 55.5kg, which while light by normal standards for someone who is 170cm (5ft 6″), is a bit too heavy for […]
The TAB are as usual ont0 it. Not. They have Robbie Dolan riding at Eagle Farm tomorrow. It would be a good trick. The poor kid is in hospital with his arm in traction after breaking his hand on Saturday afternoon in a fall at the Sunshine Coast. Yet three days later the TAB seem […]
Gammalite was a champion who won 2 Inter Dominions, a Hunter Cup, the WA and Freo Cup double and the Blacks a Fake, all Grand Circuit races. He was twice Australian Horse of the Year. Gundary Flyer was a freak whose win in the Mi His Miracle Mile after galloping away is widely considered one […]
I’m not sure. Neither was the bloke it knocked out. Ouch.
Happy Australia Day! Just a point on your discussions about the best generation of horses. I agree this a vintage batch – it is also a vintage batch of PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs). Given there is no real energy in keeping racing clean we may be seeing a very false set of good horses. If […]
Archie I hate to shatter your dreams, but as an English teacher I feel obliged to inform you that in order to do something again you have to have done it before. For instance, win a million dollars on the punt. You have to have won a million previously before you can do it again, […]
