Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Watch Blaike McDougall sit up well before the post on the leader in the last at Albury today. It was home to the world, until McDougall stopped riding. His mount still won, but by the skin of it’s teeth. His actions – or inactions, which is a better description – very nearly got the horse […]
Questions are being asked about a young QLD Steward’s interactions and friendships with a number of licensees, including some whose phones have been seized by the stipes colleagues in what appears to be an investigation into the activities of former trainer turned racing manager Ben Currie. We make no indictment of either Currie or the […]
Richmond is a rural town in north-west QLD, not that far from Mt Isa. The race club out there put on a five race meeting on the weekend. Jockeys who rode at it earned $1250 in fees, plus the chance of up to $1700 in commission on prizemoney won, which is not a bad earn […]
Don Hugo has won the Eureka, the Miracle Mile, the Blacks A Fake and the Inter Dominion. If Leap To Fame and Swayzee weren’t around he’d be declared a champion, and quite rightly so because he almost is, and in any other generation would be. Bay Of Biscay is better than somewhat too. He ran […]
The most curious racing case of the year was heard yesterday in the Supreme Court. QRIC took the the QCAT to the court to appeal the tribunal’s decision to overturn their (QRIC’s) determination to deny trot driver Greg Bennett back into the game after 15 years in the wilderness by granting him a license. QRIC […]
After 15 years in harness racing’s wilderness, former champion NSW reinsman Greg Bennett’s long march to freedom is over after the QLD Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) this week declared Bennett to be a fit and proper person to hold a Class A Driver’s License. In 2011 was stood down from the sport and later […]
How the hell have Hector, Tyson and Whos Delight got starts in the Redcliffe Gold Cup ahead of Greased Lightnin? Hector has won just 1 race from its past 23 starts. It is a rating NR107, but only on past deeds, not present. Whos Delight has won none of its past ten. It is rated […]
The Kevin Seymour owned/Grant Dixon trainer Path To Greatness galloped away from the stand in the Flashing Red at Albion Park on Saturday night. Watch. It’s the horse drawn second from the outside in the Dixon black and white checked silks. Path To Greatness no doubt gallops. You can see it clearly. In any usual […]
There are ten races at the rich Redcliffe Cup meeting on Saturday night. All of them are random barrier draws. The odds of a single trainer’s horse drawing the coveted pole position in five of them are astronomical. Unless of course his horses are all owned by Kevin Seymour. Grant Dixon has drawn 1 (after […]
There is nothing whatsoever in the official Stewards report about the matter, but those who were on course at Gayndah on Saturday tell us that a deputation of three jockeys approached the stipes about 20 minutes before race 1 expressing a reluctance to ride at the meeting due to concerns about the state of the […]
