Mark Latham on Mental Health in Racing
I am no fan of Mark Latham, in fact quite the opposite. But everyone gets it right sometimes. And Latham has done here.
Harness Racing in New Zealand Might as Well Start Digging Its Own Grave – It’s Already Started
Harness Racing New Zealand has enjoyed a huge windfall in recent years from the injection of capital (cash) that Entain injected into the Kiwi racing codes to secure the monopoly rights to operate the TAB, including a five-year funding guarantee and a share of the $100 million that the global gambling giant paid to secure […]
The NSW Stewards Have Let These Two Apprentices Down – And the Punters Too
Liberty Smith is 29 years old but has only been riding for 5 months. In that short time she has ridden 22 winners from 147 rides, at a strike rate of 15%. Hollie Hull is 26 years old and has been riding for 4 years. In that time she has has 215 mounts and booted […]
How Was This Horse Not Declared a Non-Runner?
The horse I am pointing at in the photo at the top is Churpel, and the race is the 1st at Scone on Sunday. You can see clearly that Churpel’s inside barrier has opened before the other horses gates flew, but it is why that is the issue. Have a look at the video below. […]
If Trainer Clinton Taylor is Truly as Ignorant as He Claims to Be, Then He Must Have Had an Extraordinary Run of Good Luck – But It Ran Out on Sunday
The $1600 payment to trainer Clinton Taylor to compensate him for the costs involved in takin his horse to Townsville only to be late scratched because of a Racing QLD handicapping error is understandable. Racing QLD trying to place the blame on Racing Australia isn’t. RA isn’t Queensland’s Principal Racing Authority, RQ is. The blame […]
Nozi Rides Nozi
It’s not often that you see a jockey ride himself, but you will in race 3 at Doomben on Wednesday. Number 6 Nozomu is to be ridden by Nozi Tomizawa. Nozi’s full first name is Nozomu. There is an omen bet for you.
Safety First? – It Doesn’t Seem So
Do you recall the bad fall at Townsville in February in which Bubba Tilley and Graham Kliese hit the deck? The fall that caused Bubba to break his collarbone and Kliese his wrists? The one we blamed on the crazily large field sizes from the 1000m start? Bubba and Kliese Survive the Fall – But […]
Wondai
Archie You are wrong about the Stewards inspection at Wondai. I was there. Steward Simon Fletcher didn’t just drive the car around the track an hour before the first. He got out multiple times and poked a measuring stick into the track. Testing I don’t know what. He alighted from the car and proudly displayed […]
A Great Example Indeed
The bloke in the picture taken from an RQ piss up at the Derby meeting at Eagle Farm on Saturday afternoon is Shane Scriven, the former jockey who slaughtered Octagonal in the 1995 Victorian Derby. He weighed a lot less then. These days Scrivo is the apprentice training and mentoring boss at Racing QLD. One […]
It’s the Sire Not the Dam
At least that’s what I say about the kids breeding anyway. Me being a student of bloodlines and all. Maggie disagrees and maintains that it’s the other way around. But what would that fool know? They are both the spitting image of me. It’s obvious isn’t it?