Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We were right about Luke McCarthy being the best trainer in Australia weren’t we? Kingman’s outstanding victory in the NZ Cup yesterday proved that. It might even have proven that Luke is the best trainer in the Dominion too. What McCarthy has done with this horse is simply incredible. He was getting beaten by Some […]
Remember the Gambler? Kenny Rogers? The glass pipe jockey who last year copped his fifth disqualification for throwing personal positive swabs, all bar one of them to meth or ice? You know Kenny, the big talker non-walker who made cowardly threats against our person after we wrote a story about him, then wouldn’t answer the […]
RACE 3 NO 5 – HE AINT FAKIN Australian pacer turned Kiwi trotter, was very impressive winner at Addington at square gaiting debut. Up against a weak mob here, can repeat the dose. RACE 4 NO 8 – SECRET AGENT MAN Very consistent pacer won 4 and second 3 times from 8 starts to date. […]
One 0f the most interesting runners on today’s NZ Trotting Cup day card is an Australian, but not one of the ones like Leap To Fame or Jilliby Ballerini that everyone is talking about. He Aint Fakin in race 3 the final leg of the World Drivers Championship is the horse in question. This bloke […]
The North West and Central West racing industry is still up in arms over a shift in heat policy. By Matt Nicholls: North-West News, 10/11/25 https://www.northwestweekly.com.au/queensland-racing-s-heat-policy-ruffling-feathers-in-bush-2025-11-10 The forecast of a “cool” 31 degrees will save today’s Mount Isa meeting from being subject to the oppressive heat policy now being forced upon Outback racing clubs. Under […]
The race for the WA State Trainers title looks like going right down to the wire, with Michael Young and Aiden De Campo – neither of whom has a won a premiership before – clearing right out from the rest of the field on 103 wins (Young) v 101 wins (De Campo), with last year’s […]
Trot trainer Anton Golino not that long ago relocated his training operation and his home from Victoria to NSW, presumably chasing the better prizemoney so he could attempt to make a decent living. Golino spent a lot of time, effort and money to do so. Unfortunately not that long after arriving in NSW one of […]
Young rider Tyler Leslight fell from his mount about 200 meters after the start of race 2 at Cooktown on Saturday afternoon. You can’t actually see the fall because it happens behind a big blue post that obscures vision from the single camera provided by Regional Cast, but it appeared that Leslight’s mount may have […]
Former South Australian trot man turned gallops trainer Waylon “The Highwayman” Hornhardt might be in a bit of trouble. Hornhardt’s two runners at the Mildura meeting on Melbourne Cup day Sassy Angel and Mr Trafficanti were scratched by order of the Stewards on reasonable suspicion that they may have been administered medication in breach of AR249(1). […]
It appears that we got the detail of jockey Corey Bayliss legal troubles slightly wrong in our earlier story. Bayliss has not been charged with breaching a Domestic Violence Order as we stated in the story. The latest information that has come to light is that he has been charged with an alleged domestic violence […]
