Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tasmanian racing is a fiscal basket case. The just released 2023/24 Tasracing annual report reveals that the three codes of racing earn just $34.4 million a year between them, but it costs almost $70 million to keep the game running. That means that the dogs, trots and gallops run circa $36 million in the red […]
The official Stewards report seriously downplays the seriousness of the injury. It refers to the young horse breaking gait twice without mentioning why, even though it notes that Kasheeper was transported to the equine hospital for treatment, and then it goes on to say that a vets certificate is required prior to the horse being […]
A nonnie in the pink and white There is nothing more frustrating in racing than the horse with a world of ability who has a seeming fear of greeting judges and a phobia about crossing the finish line first. Non-winners we call them, or nonnies for short. Verdad is one of them. This horse has […]
Trainer Brad Abbott had a $10 bet on his horse Hy Voltage in the 8th race at Menangle on Saturday night. Or at least he thought he did, but when Abbott later checked the ticket he discovered that he had put it on the wrong number by mistake. Abbott went to try and cancel the […]
We found this old picture while going through some childhood photo albums, and it brought a question to mind. How many blokes have scored a winning try in a QLD-NSW rugby league series play as a curtain raiser to the first ever Origin game, trained multiple Derby winners, won a Chariots of Fire with a […]
There are reports that Lil Lenny, the runner-up in the 2nd at Globe Derby yesterday, broke a knee during the race or in the run on after they passed the winning post. Lil Lenny was a 4yo gelding having its first race start. The serious injury may have just been the result of bad luck, […]
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away – Percy Bysshe Shelley Disappeared in the night former QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard has etched his name in QLD racing history by becoming the first leader […]
Remember the story we told you last week about Tasmanian trot driver Mitch Ford hooking an Emma Stewart trained odds-on favorite named Free To Play at a recent Launceston meeting? Well the Tassie stewards have found Ford guilty of failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures during therace to ensure that Free To Play […]
What the hell was driver Mitch Ford doing here in the 6th race on the Emma Stewart trained Free To Play (no 9. 2nd from the inside on the 2nd row)? Why did he allow the despised $91 outsider Shooin to cross him at the bll? Why didn’t he come out 3-wide ahead of Didyoulousaroosta […]
The simmering feud between the Ison and Elder trot clans has taken on Shakespearian proportions, with Molly Ison playing the role of Juliet and Brad Elder that of Romeo. There has been bad blood between the families for more than a year now, with the tensions flowing over in November last year in an incident […]
