Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hope you followed our Melbourne Cup tips in the preview we published yesterday. From our total of six horses in the preview we gave you the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The trifecta – which would have cost you $120 to box for a unit – paid over ten grand, so it was a pretty bloody […]
If Ben Melham hadn’t got their first we would marry Jamie right now. The First 4 on the Cup. Good on the reader who followed the picks from our preview and landed the prize. God bless Jamie Melham. And God bless Australia. What a lucky country it is indeed.
This magnificent beast in the picture is Parchment Party, the American dirt track stayer par excellence who has made the trek Down Under to try to lift our Cup. The Doc (nude tipster) rates his form big time, and has tipped him to win. Parchment Party certainly looks the part. You couldn’t ask to see […]
Are we some sort of backward neanderthals in racing, stuck in another century when men tipped their hats to ladies and called them madam, and ladies wore skirts down to their heels? We must be. Why else does Racing Australia put a Ms in front of every female rider and nothing in front of the […]
A trainer presenting a horse to race when not free of prohibited substances is what’s known as a strict liability offence. As far as guilt or innocence goes there is only the former if your horse throws a positive swab. Even if you can prove from the recordings made by your stable security cameras that […]
The Betoota Advocate is a satirical news and current affairs website that takes the piss out of pretty much everything and everyone, so there is a fair chance that the Sportsbet ‘offer’ to buy the publication is just a wind up. If so it is a pretty clever send up of the current forces at […]
Merlin’s time run in winning the Kaikoura Cup at the world’s most beautiful trot track on Monday was the third fastest 2400m from a standing start in New Zealand history behind Eamon Maguire and Lazarus. The difference between the Wizard and that pair is that Eamon Maguire ran his time from the sprint lane trail […]
The snippet you see above is taken from a story by Peter Ryan about Jamie Melham that appears in today’s The Age. It is wrong. Ben Hayes didn’t take over the training of Harlem (in partnership with Tom Dabernig until 18 months after Melham (then Kah) has won the Australian Cup on the horse. David […]
The races at Eagle Farm on Tuesday kick off at the ridiculous time of 10.12 am. Which makes one thing an absolute Cup day certainty. That good thing? That their will be young champagne fueled fillies spewing in the rose garden before the clock strikes 12. Midday. And that there will be pissed people all […]
We told you ten days ago the story of how smart young Kiwi pacer The Lazarus Effect had been driven as dead as a doornail at Addington recently to ensure that it got a favorable front row draw in the $50 000 sales series race at Kaikoura today. Well the plan worked to perfection. The […]
