Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Barcaldine Trainer Toni Schofield combined with veteran jockey Jason Missen to land a double at the birthplace of the modern Labor Party and home of the Tree of Knowledge. The duo also teamed up to finish a pair of seconds on the five race card. Single Honour – who was trained at various times by […]
There is nothing that gets a punters blood boiling more than a major form reversal that results in a win. We saw one yesterday when the Team Hayes trained Angry Skies took out the Warracknabeal Cup. Angry Skies had gone like a busted arse at its previous two starts this prep. It has run last […]
I don’t know if NSW hobby trainer Jacqui Ingham would have been doing cartwheels or taking commiserations last night at Parkes. You wait two seasons for a winner – just your ninth in a decade of holding a license – and when it comes you only get half. Ingham’s stable star – her only horse […]
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 […]
