Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The money was on My Ultimate Felix in the last at Redcliffe on Wednesday night. It was smashed from $19.00 into $4.00, and it was stable money too. Someone forgot to tell the driver about it. Or perhaps he didn’t hear them. Firenstorm was hammered late in the betting too. $51.00 into $8.00 it firmed. […]
Three months ago, in the wake of the collapsed $100m deal to sell the Franklin training centre at Pukekohe, Auckland Trotting Club (ATC) Chairman Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon publicly announced that the club had the approval of its members to sell the track to another buyer. Sadly for Watches he lost track of time and forgot […]
Dear Members As I started drafting this letter on June 21, I was reminded that Saturday marked the winter solstice or as we more commonly know it, as the shortest day of daylight hours before the days start to get longer again. The Club is also at a turning point whereby plenty of hard work […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was later jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been accepting bribes from crooked trainers and […]
Japanese tech giant MIXI’s takeover bid for Pointsbet descended into farce this week, after first it was announced that shareholders had approved the bid following Betr’s withdrawal of its proxies and failure to vote, and then it was revealed that Betr had not done this at all and their votes with the 18.9% of shares […]
The second race at Albion Park tonight is a most intriguing race of tonight, with a host of high quality open class pacers whose connections wish to avoid racing from the stand in the Redcliffe Cup taking each other on for non-metro prizemoney in a surprisingly strong Free For All. Relocated WA speedster Pinny Tiger […]
By Mark Geenty ANALYSIS: Some cash-strapped national sporting organisations (NSOs) are in line for a funding boost as Sport New Zealand decides how to distribute a $20 million windfall from the newly-passed Racing Industry Amendment Bill. The big question is: how fairly will it be dished out, and will sporting codes who receive very little in […]
Trainers across the United States of America are in a mass panic after armed agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the Delta Downs race track last week and arrested 84 unlicensed illegal immigrants who were working as trackwork riders and stable hands. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-law-enforcement-partners-arrest-more-80-illegal-aliens-during-worksite All of the illegal workers – mainly trackwork riders and […]
Race six on the Randwick Kenso yesterday was the hottest gallops race I have seen for a long time. A mare named Hasty Honey ridden by Kerrin McEvoy was backed from $9.00 into $3.00. It jumped straight to the front. Every other jockey in the race put the handbrake on. J-Mac on the 5/4 favorite […]
Why did Peter McMullen seem far more interested in the progress of the horse coming down the outside in race 7 at Albion Park yesterday than he was in the finishing position of his own horse Saucy Dreams? Could it be that it was because the horse on the outside was his stablemate Major Fernco, […]
