Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What is a technical issue and how does it cause two mares to be late scratched? Did their batteries run flat? Were the computer chips implanted in their heads on the blink? Was the remote control rooted? I can’t work it out. You here something new in racing every day. Pulling two mares out of […]
Things are looking grim for the day’s racing at the Sunshine Coast if the rain keeps coming. The track this morning is rated a Heavy 9, with the penotrometer reading 7.5, which means that the horse will be cutting deep into the track from the get go. Given the way the Caloundra course proper has […]
Racing Victoria (RV) Chair, Tim Eddy, has issued the following statement after the Victorian Racing Tribunal (VRT) today disqualified Darren Weir, Jarrod McLean and Tyson Kermond for serious breaches of the Rules of Racing in relation to acts of cruelty on three horses through the use of a prohibited electrical device known as a ‘jigger’. […]
Grant Dixon is faced with the devil’s dilemna aboard Leap To Fame from the 1 gate in the Wondais Mate at Albion Park tonight. Does he do what he never does and fire the champ out hard off the arm to try to get the lead? Or does he let the natural speedster Turnitup cross […]
Here is the list of current apprentice jockeys in Queensland. There is not a single boy on it. Oh how the racing world has changed, and how it will continue to change until the weight scale does. It’s a sign of times. All power to the girls. They should say prayers to Pam O’Neill every […]
The longest drought in Central QLD racing history finally broke on Thursday when Cashin’ Chex stormed to the line to give Mackay trainer Drew Crouch his first winner since March in the year 2006, way back when little Johnny Howard still ruled Australia and James’ Blunt’s Beautiful soared on top of the charts. It had […]
Gary Hall Jr has been handed down a 5 week suspension for unnacceptable driving on Wildwest in the race you see above and below, with two weeks of the five absorbed into a separate suspension for the same offence that he has already on the out for, meaning that for this particular piece of cheating […]
The Darren Weir case has taken a strange twist, with submissions from his barrister to be heard on when his seried of concurrent 2-year disqualification will actually start. Does it commence from the date Weir’s previous disqualification ended in February 2023, which would mean that it would expire in February next year and that the […]
THIS PUNTER RECKONS THE ‘SULTAN’ ISN’T WORTH A ‘PEANUT’ SPEAKING of tipsters, the rising star of the Racing.com ranks – the man they call ‘The Sultan’ – copped a deserved backhander from MICK the MAD PUNTER from MELBOURNE. ‘His name is David Strehlau and he emerged from oblivion to claim fame as a great tipster with […]
Much loved Kiwi horsewoman Katie Cox lost her brave battle with cancer yesterday. She was only 34. They say that only the good die young. This wonderful young woman’s passing proves it. Katie’s favorite pacer Spy Da Moment lines up in the 7th at Addington tonight, where the track will be awash with tears. Spy […]
