Call Me Kingman …
Or Larry. Or Swayzee. Or Bulletproof Boy. Or whatever you like. I just can’t wait until Saturday night!
The Die is Cast About Deagon’s Future – But There is No Such Thing as a Certainty When the Magic Man is on the Other Side
We are told that the decision on what to do with the Deagon racecourse has been put back to about Easter time. I think the answer however is already known. Why would Racing QLD have set aside asset funding for an Apprentice Jockey Centre at the Gold Coast when they already have one at Deagon? […]
Mud in My Eye, Egg on My Face, and a Fair Bit of Blood on My Brain – Maybe Now I Can Be a Racing.Com Form Analyst, or a Lawyer
Blood drowned brain dead bits It has come to our attention that we made an ignorant error in our story about apprentice jockey Tom Orr being fined $200 for not claiming his allowance at Thangool on Saturday. We said that Racing QLD and the QRIC were negligent for allowing a 1.5kg claiming apprentice like Orr […]
Jason the Genius – Or At Least That’s What We Are Told
A lot of people want to tell you that the genius of Jason Grimson is placing horses right. That is bullshit. When Grimson got Oursurfinsafari the horse has raced 15 times as an NR 30, the lowest rating that a pacer can be. It hadn’t won any of them, and had only placed in one. […]
FFS – It’s Not the Loch Ness Monster
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 Comes to Paradise – Or So the Uninformed Think – He Has Been Here the Whole Time
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 […]
With a Name Like This How Could It Not Be a Champion?
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 […]
Apprentice Error or Official Negligence? – You Be the Judge
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 Onto It – Not
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 […]
The Greatest Winfield Cup Win in History?
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 […]