Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The last time we saw racing’s everywhere man Baldy, the Forrest Gump of the punt world, was 3 weeks ago in Swan Hill. On Thursday popped up 1700km away at Casino. He has had a haircut in between. It looks like a $5 job at the apprentice barber’s school to me. The fiver was probably […]
Why the hell do some people keep trying to fix things that aren’t broken? The Auckland Trotting Club tried to become property developers so that it could ‘secure the future of harness racing’, which was already sitting pretty and travelling well. Instead they sent the sport into the abyss, and their club and track with […]
See that bit of missing running rail at the 1300m mark in the first at Ballina on Sunday? Why wasn’t it there? It should have been. Whose job was it to check? They obviously didn’t, and it created a safety hazard that put horses and jockeys at heightened risk. That’s not on. We all make […]
Seaton Grima has been a bit quiet lately, but yesterday at Menangle he roared back to life, First there was Shoreline Dream, which had only been able to win one mangy race in slow time for Emma Stewart and Peter Bain at its past seven starts before it came to him, none in faster than […]
Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson had three runners in yesterday, 2 at Menangle and 1 at Albion Park. They all won. https://www.harness.org.au/racing/trainers/jason-grimson/ He has two in at the Creek on Saturday night, Tokyo Rose and Maxo Mighty. The chances are that they will too. Most of Jill’s do. And the Winter Carnival hasn’t yet really begun. The […]
The Supreme Court decision in the battle between Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club (ATC) over PVL’s crew’s decision to appoint an administrator to run the Sydney race club is difficult to understand if you don’t get the intricacies of the law, which I don’t but think I get the gist of, and even […]
A lot of punters and scribes are getting excited about the Group 1 Tatts Tiara at Eagle Farm on Saturday, and many are talking up the chances of the Naked Tipster’s favorite mare Splash Back, but I warn them all not to get too excited. The word from the early morning track that I’m hearing […]
Pauline hasn’t aged well has she? Bitterness does that to a woman’s looks. Who does she hate today? And why? Please explain. Editors Note: At the time Pauline Hanson that said it I reckon 3/4 of Australians didn’t know what xenophobic meant. I doubt that half of the punters still do today. Talk about playing […]
Do you remember us breaking the story a couple of years ago about Adrian Talbot, the brother of the then Wagga Greyhound Club President Ben Talbot, and how he was killing horses and chopping them up to sell to greyhound trainers, including his brother, for dog food? Here are the stories if you have forgotten. […]
Readers will be very familiar with the spate of jockeys and trackwork riders in QLD who have been outed in the past 18 months for lodging doctored health reports required for their annual license renewals. We now it seems like the Cane Toad, dodgy health reports have become a cross border plague that has entered […]
