Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Lacey Morrison copped a weeks suspension for failing to ride her mount out to the finish line. It’s NOT the leader in the dark green colors as the film rolls, as we wrote in an earlier edition of this story. Tyler Leslight was riding that horse, we have subsequently been corrected. The jockeys actions did […]
City Of Troy at Coolmore, wearing his Longines World’s Best Horse rug By Will Jones, award winning author of The Black Horse Newsletter Aidan O’Brien, of course, told everyone City Of Troy was his best Epsom Derby winner and even the best horse he had ever trained. No one, of course, believed him; it was […]
Queensland trot driver Jordan Topping is appealing her four week suspension for an unacceptable drive in the race we told you about where she went hammer and tong with her arch-nemesis Danielle McMullen, and destroyed the chances of both their horses. I’m not sure whether Topping has shelled out the vig to hire James Murdoch […]
As we have written several times recently there appears to be an infectious disease sweeping the QLD racing ranks that is making people turn to (alleged) crime and landing them in court before a Magistrate or Judge. Sunshine Coast based rider Morgan Butler is yet the latest to catch the wicked virus. Butler appeared in […]
It’s now more than a week since the meeting at Melton on the 10th of April at which a young 3-year-old horse dropped dead mid-race and another went crazy and almost put driver Anthony Butt in wheelchair for life, and still no official Stewards Report from the meeting has been published. “Why not?” you have […]
The B sample of the star filly Beside Me’s swab has come back positive to Meloxicam like the first, and now all we are waiting on is the RIB Stewards to charge trainer Cran Dalgety for presenting his girl to race with the prohibited substance in her system. It’s bad news for Dalgety, because if […]
The great Ajax (above), triple winner of the All Aged Stakes The All Aged Stakes is one of the oldest and most prestigious races in Sydney, with today’s edition the 160th running of the race. It’s an intriguing affair too, with live chances left, right and centre; Group 1 winners all across the page; and […]
The picture re Racing Queensland’s pull out from the Redcliffe Yearling Sale becomes a little clearer, and murkier at the same time. It is believed that the dispute centers on the involvement of auctioneer Darren Ebert (pictured above) in the sale. Ebert is believed to have been charged with some form of animal cruelty offence/s, […]
Peter McMullen is a top-shelf reinsman, arguably the best in the State. Which makes it all the more troubling that he has put in a couple of queer drives lately, steers that you’d swear were intended to advantage his stablemate. We told the story yesterday of his drive at Redcliffe on Wednesday night aboard Beachbabe […]
At a time when there is huge conjecture over the future of the $2.1 million slot race, we have a simple idea about how to Make the Eureka Great Again (MEGA). There is only 4YO in the country that has the WOW factor, that pulls in punters and fans from all quarters to watch every […]
