Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie Regarding the WA handicapping system. Certain very high profile trainers, operating outside established channels, sought and got meetings with certain RWWA Harness officers to specifically pitch for RBD and changes to programming because they and their privileged owners were being made to sing a bit harder for their supper with their NZ imported stock. […]
When you sell a yearling at auction you are obliged by the terms and conditions of sale, and many would say by law, to disclose any serious impediments that the youngster is afflicted with to all of its potential buyers. If, for example, if it only has 3 legs, or if it has 4 and […]
I am not sure that Ka Ying Rising is the greatest sprinter that I have ever seen. Actually I am sure that he is not. Black Caviar is. But the Hong Kong flyer is the second best for sure, bar none. What a horse he is. An absolute and utter freak. Frankel, Winx, Black Caviar, […]
I have no idea what driver W. Clarke was thinking or doing on Gammalite in this race, and I don’t want to because it could never make sense. Questions. Why Didn’t he kick up at the start and try to hold the lead from gate 1? When he pulled back didn’t he do a slip […]
Why would Sportsbet bother putting up a Melbourne Cup market 9 months in advance if they are going to set it like this? Half Yours won the Cup last year with 53kg, but is likely to get 4kg more this year, and weight stops trains. Al Riffa didn’t get the two miles with 59kg, and […]
Travis Noonan posted this on Twitter. It all makes sense too. Bar for one thing. Treasurethe Moment was supposed to the best horse in Australia many said. But she had been beaten at her past 5 starts, all of them of course in top class affairs. The jury is out. —————————————————– Seeing a lot of […]
Wouldn’t you be dirty if you were veteran Northern Rivers trainer Leo Clapham? He trains his horse Lady Alabama up for months to get it ready to run the 1350m at Doomben on Saturday. Even books a claiming apprentice Olivia Kendal to ride the mare to give it a bit of weight relief. Then he […]
It’s bloody amazing isn’t it? Jason Grimson has only 26 horses in work, and among them are three of the fastest twenty ever to race over the mile at Menangle – Rakero Rocket (1.47.3), Himynameisjeffn (1.48.4), and Swayzee (1.48.6) – another who no doubt will shortly be joining them in Captains Mistress (1.50.0), and a […]
Hey Archie I can understand why WA doesn’t want to use the national ratings system. It’s an absolute joke. The worst thing I have seen enforced on the industry in my time. Not one trainer likes it or wants it. It’s killing the industry. Written by a World Famous Trainer
We made a horrible and very much regretted error in a story published overnight. In writing the story I somehow mixed up and mistook Lance Holberton for another licensee, and in error attributed to him that licensee’s past problems with substance abuse. That of course was both totally incorrect and utterly untrue. Mr Holberton has […]
