Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Aren’t those gallops training tracks on the inside of the grass track? Gallops trainers aren’t going to like it….. Time to sell Alex Park and Puke, and build a purpose designed single racing and training venue. Belle from Burnie
Chinchillas in the wild live on average for about ten years. The mammal’s life expectancy on pacing track is much shorter, especially when it’s spelt Chynchilla. It only lives for five years then. Chynchilla was a Group 3 winning mare who raced at the top level. Last weekend she ran third in a Listed race […]
I dunno who these lads at the Grafton dogs tonight are, but they made effort to give us a smile and a wave so I thought we’d give them one back. Good on ya boys. I hope you are backing a winner.
It appears from the debacle we saw on Sky yesterday that the broadcast box that the race caller works from has fixed glass windows that cannot be opened. When it rains hard and the wind is blowing into the window it seems that it becomes like a car windscreen in a torrential downpour when the […]
The word is that HRNZ CEO Brad ‘Superman’ Steele is proposing/promising to contribute $13 million toward the construction of a new track and stables t0 replace the Franklin Training Centre, with the Auckland Trotting Club to kick in any extra money required. There are two problems with Superman’s proposal/promise, and both of them are significant. […]
If Ben Melham is not doing business with Jamie in races I will walk naked up Pitt Street, Sydney with a pink bow tie around my manhood – Prominent Sydney racing identity It’s a very sexist statement that a well known racing man from Sydney made to me this afternoon isn’t it? One that takes […]
The old adage about cream rising to the top has been proven true once again in the breeding of the runners in the ID25 final. Nine of the twelve finalists are by one of the big three sires in Bettors Delight, Art Major and Captain Treacherous, each of whom have three runners, including odd-on favorite […]
Jockey Jason Huxtable appears in Cairns Court today for a further mention of his charge under section 227A of the Queensland Criminal Code of recording am intimate act in breach of the alleged victim’s privacy. Huxtable remains on bail with conditions including that he not ride at or attend race meetings north of Rockhampton.
Dear Track Users, On Wednesday July 23, members of the Auckland Trotting Club have been invited to attend an SGM to discuss a number of items, one of which is the sale of the Franklin training center. Ahead of the SGM we will be holding a meeting at Franklin Park at 3pm on July 23 […]
Some people are blowing up about Ben Melham’s beaten ride on Wetumpka in race 1 at Pakenham today. Wetumpka was backed from $6.50 into $2.00 and Melham has long been said to be associated with bookmakers and big punters alike, so you might be able to understand their cause for suspicion when it gets beaten […]
