Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Six semi-finals of the rich Breeders Challenge series were run at Menangle last night. Only two favorites in the six races were pre-race swabbed. They were the only runners under double figure odds swabbed. The average price of the 12 horses swabbed in the semi-finals was $72.00. And HRNSW call this a world class integrity […]
Craig Williams earned $400 000 by riding the winners of the Everest and the Kosciuszko. Now that’s a mountain anyone would like to climb. Ciaron Maher’s earn for the day was even better. He took home a paycheck of $1.2 million for the day. Which Tasmanian Steward is refusing to work under the current chief […]
While the eyes of the world were watching the big name riders go around at Randwick and Caulfield yesterday, lesser light jockeys around the nation were having big days out too. Justin Stanley takes the prize for most winners anywhere after he landed a fabulous five on the card at Rockhampton, and all of them […]
Are the Kiwi trot Stewards serious aplying the rules, or do they just make it up as they go? The push out rule is very simple and clear. Prior to the 1000m mark a driver is not allowed to push out when the nose of a horse outside them is in line with or past […]
If Ray ‘Dynamite’ Mason isn’t the most committed racehorse owner in the country then I don’t know who is. While 50 000 Sydney siders spent their Friday warming up for the all day Everest drink, Dynamite was on the road making the long 18 trek from Melbourne to Mitchell to be on-track to cheer his […]
Andrew Rule is one person who certainly won’t be on Ben Melham and Jamie Kah’s Christmas card this year, after the pair blew up big time after reading a story about Kah penned by the award winning crime and racing writer that was published yesterday in the Sun Herald (see story below). Melham was the […]
When Jamie Kah hit Victoria, she seemed to be pure heroine. It was early 2019 and the best scorer out of Adelaide since the Chappell brothers packed her Range Rover and headed east. She stopped at Strathalbyn races and nailed two winners and a second from six rides, topping up her strike rate of one […]
We appreciate that we’re starting to sound like a broken record, but it’s not our fault it’s his. By he we mean Australia’s most suspended apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray, who was sent on yet another holiday by the Stewards at the Gold Coast yesterday. This time the persistent rules breaker wasn’t outed for careless riding […]
There is no club in the world that can stuff things up like the Auckland Trotting Club can, and no Stewards who can allow them to do it so badly either. Race 6 at Auckland was the feature event of the night, the $30 000 final of the Woodlands Stud-Silk Road Northern Series. The race […]
Over the past few months we have highlighted a number of issues with Terry Bailey’s race calling. All trains stop at the same station. The one called Retirement. Listen to this Barry Crocker from Terry the Saint last night at Pakenham and tell us you disagree.
