Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
4 312 days is fair gap between drinks isn’t it? Anthony Butt managed it. Last night the great man drove his first winner in Alexandra Park in all that time. It was a great drive too, an absolute cracker. There will be many, many more too. Ants might be my age, but he b ounces […]
Just to be very clear so you don’t think I am some misogynist or weirdo, it was the good doctor G. Whiting PhD – aka the Nude Tipster – who sent me the photo at the top with her tips, and requested that I use it. It was me who insisted on editing the word […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/NRC27022608.mp4 It’s an amazing sport harness racing. In what other discipline except for perhaps lawn bowls does an athlete hit their peak when they are in their mid-40’s? Most in all codes are well and truly retired by then. Not at the trots. Bulletproof Boy is somewhere around 45 years of age in human terms. […]
Racing Queensland is responsible for determining the maximum field sizes for races at each track, based on its assessment of safety. I strongly believe that it has failed when it comes to allowing 16 horse fields over 1000m at Cluden Park, Townsville. Townsville is a track with a circumference of only 1680 meters. That is […]
Racing QLD don’t usually publish replays of race falls. They have here. It’s race 9 at Townsville. The fall happens in the straight. Les ‘Bubba’ Tilley and Graham Kliese go down. The word is that Bubba has broken his wrist and collarbone. Poor bugger. I hope he gets well soon. Kliese walked back to the […]
Take a look at number 10 that begins from the unruly position (outside of the back line) from this supposed standing start. No horse begins that fast from a stand. If it didn’t get an unfair flyer then my arse doesn’t point to the ground. The starter said it was okay, and the Stewards didn’t […]
By Jon Tuxworth (The Mercury) Tasracing has made the stunning admission there was intel the barrier gates were in the wrong position before this month’s Hobart Cup, revealing a “judgement call” was made to run the race on schedule anyway. Speaking on SEN on Friday, Tasracing chief executive Andrew Jenkins said the review into how […]
The latest mail filtering out of Tasmania is that the Hobart Starter, a highly experienced chap with over three decades in the job, did in fact notice that the barriers were in the wrong position for the start of Sunday’s Hobart Cup. Word is that he challenged the position of the barriers either before or […]
The unconfirmed rumor from around the Brisbane track is that Toowoomba based horseman Lindsay Hatch (pictured above) is giving away training in his own right. Hatch is said to be going to take up a role as stable foreman for his great mate Tony Gollan at the Gold Coast. It is not known when the […]
Look who is back in the cart after 15 years in the wilderness. For multiple NSW premiership winning driver Greg Bennett. As you will recall, the dream team of HNT lawyers and Jim Murdoch KC won Bennett the right to QLD license last month after demonstrating before the QLD Civil and Administrative Tribunal that he […]
