Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What can you say about the TAB outage at the start of spring? Four things I reckon. Gillon the Great has turned into Gillon the Grape in world record time. The outfit he leads is Friar Tucked. This was just a warm-up run for the inevitable meltdown on Cup day. And Tabcorp should change its […]
Methinks punter Peter Lawrence is the last person who should be whining and moaning about TAB rorts. After all, Lawrence is Robbie Waterhouse’s man on the NSW north coast, and a close associate of Sally Snow. He wasn’t complaining when Sally was inflating the TAB odds for his crew during the hour of power then […]
The first at Albion Park last night was an absolute gee up. Matt Elkins on the favorite Royal Speech should have been charged with an unacceptable drive. What he did was a disgrace. With the Elkins trained/Narissa McMullen (his wife) driven no hoper Art Jester attacking it like a maniac, the leader Dangerzone had run […]
Allow me to put I Wish I Win’s performance in the Moir Stakes yesterday into perspective. Black Caviar won seven races at Mooney Valley. The fastest final six hundred meters she ran in any of them was 33.51 seconds in the 2012 Australia Stakes, and she did that coming from the box seat and cruising […]
If you’d backed Miss Aria in the last at the Valley yesterday you would have torn up your ticket at the 600m mark. I know I did. Horses just don’t come from that far back over 1200m on the saucer and win. It just doesn’t happen. Or it didn’t until yesterday. What an amazing win, […]
Emma Stewart turned out 39 runners in the semis of the Breeders Crown last night at Melton. 34 of them qualified for the rich grand finals. Stewart won 9 of the semi-finals, ran the quinella in 7 of them, the trifecta in 3, and the first four in 1 more. All up her stable took […]
On the same night that G. Hall Jr gave us a demonstration in the Eureka of how not to drive a horse in a big race, Kate Gath put on a master class that showed exactly how to do it right. Gath’s steer on Catch A Wave in the Len Smile was simply superb, a […]
I always believed that I would go to my grave never having seen a big race drive as bad as Brian Healy’s slaughter job on Maori’s Idol in the 1978 Inter Dominion (above). But I was wrong. Gary Hall Jr’s abominable steer on Never Ending last night earns the Perth reinsman a place right alongside […]
I often wonder what on earth Brisbane trot caller Chris Barsby is talking about when he breaks into a scream. This is one of the times. What the hell is a first over crush? It sounds like a sex act in an orgy, or an ice block, not something you’d find at the trots. I’m […]
I think the HRV stewards are getting a bit carried away with themselves by querying the improved performance of Night Safari to win the 3rd race at Mildura last night, and then subjecting the horse to a barrage of swabs. Night Safari didn’t improve its performance. It was just gifted the race. Trainer/driver Michael Riseley […]
