Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ben Melham got put upon in a most unlikely manner by Chad Schofield in the Champions Mile yesterday at Flemington. First time was at the 1400m when Schofield found himself stuck out 3-wide on Ceolwulf (in the green and gold striped cap) and decided that he wanted in. The only problem was that Melham on […]
Is trainer Lachie Manzelmann’s dominance of the numbers in bush racing a good thing or a bad? Manzelmann had 14 of the 27 runners on the five race card at Moranbah yesterday. He had 5 of the 6 in race one, 3 of 5 in race two, 2 of 4 in race three, 3 of […]
Saturday’s race meeting at Longreach was conducted under the QRIC caring for racing animals in extreme heat policy. Start time for the first race was brought forward to 11.00am. Races were run at 35 minute intervals. Pre-race parade times significantly reduced and there were on-course cooling stations in the race-day tie-ups, parade areas and a […]
I don’t know who Troy Sturt is. All I do know is that he is one lucky bastard. Super Smirk won too. For a $12.50 investment Troy Sturt has won $48 434.10. Dreams of made of this. Good on him.
Have the Brisbane Racing Club got their distance markers in the right place? I suspect not, but if they have then I suggest they check the calibration of the clock, because the incredibly fast times run all day at Eagle Farm just cannot be correct, Can they? According to the BRC website the 1200m track […]
Hass Taiba (pictured above with the horse) is best known in racing circles as the former owner of one-time star pacer Captain Ravishing, which was sold to one of Mr Brightside’s part owners earlier this year and transferred to WA. It seems Hass will be having Christmas lunch inside this year. What a terrible way […]
See that thing the man is sitting behind at the non-TAB meeting as Esk today? That’s a tote machine. It’s fully operational and in work today too. We thought that the Rockhampton Jockey Club CEO told punters that no race club has TAB terminals at non-TAB meetings. Yeah good Rocky. It’s just you.
The mail out of Roma Street is that two Queensland jockeys have fallen afoul of police in the past week, one of whom at least a person you would have hoped would be living life on the straight and narrow given their well publicized legal travails over the past year. We speak here of Justin […]
Until tonight I have never had cause to doubt Cameron Hart’s honesty as a driver. But after what I just saw in the 2nd race at Newcastle tonight, I do now. Hart was driving the $1.75 favorite Our Ultimate Jessy, the winner of it past two and the highest rated horse in the field. Jessy […]
We are unabashed huge fans of Peter V’Landys, as a person, as a leader, and as quite possibly the greatest racing administrator that the world has ever seen. The reasons for that latter statement are borne out clearly by the information and financial accounts published this week in the 2025 Annual Report. Racing NSW’ success […]
