Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Aaron Bain Racing’s rapid rise in South Australian thoroughbred racing is set to go to another level with the move to the former Lindsay Park property in Angaston. The historic horse haven in the Barossa Valley, made famous by Colin Hayes as Lindsay Park and then Kildalton Park with the McEvoy’s will be known as […]
Brad Steele – who was spotted in Christchurch earlier this week – is universally considered a certainty to get the job of CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand. But does he still want it? There is hot but unconfirmed rumor floating out of Addington that Steele is having second thoughts about accepting the position. According […]
If you had been silly enough to take the $1.35 about Aquaholic in the 2-year-old Maiden at Ipswich yesterday you would have started feeling nauseous at the 1000 metre mark when he started pulling his head off, and become more and more ill with every metre further the race went. Aquaholic pulled it self into […]
Grant Dixon this week told Adam Hamilton that he is going to ride the rail on Leap To Fame from the inside of the 2nd-row draw on Saturday night and drive for luck, hoping that a gap opens up after the start that allows him to slip off the fence into the line. Dixon claims […]
Everyone’s favorite syndicator KO Racing purchased the tried racehorse Maotai from an Inglis online sale in December for $90 000. Since that time it has been attempting to syndicate its $90k purchase in small shares worth a total of $150 000, continuing the KO Thoroughbred practice of heavily marking up the price of horses that […]
A few months back we wrote about the likeable young apprentice Julie Busuttin, daughter of Castletown’s trainer Paddy, who had just kicked off her riding career by qualifying through the trials. A Famous Name Soon Set to Join the QLD Riding Ranks Well young Bussitin has made it through and been granted her license to […]
There have been rumors floating around for a long time that trainer Ben Smith was a glass pipe jockey. After his guilty plea yesterday to having had prohibited substances on board in his system when swabbed at his Kembla Grange stables on the 4th of April, you have to suspect that the rumors were right. […]
I guess you are entitled to get a bit excited when you drive home a 40-1 winner. But did Kevin Weidenbach really need to showboat like he did as went past them on the line? All it makes him do is look like a mug lair.
We’ve all seen Steven Bradbury’s amazing gold medal win at the Winter Olympics. The Irish must be right about green being the color of luck. Just watch the horse in the green in the race below. I hope those that backed it didn’t tear up their tickets at the 200 metre mark. They’ll be the […]
Central north-west NSW trainer Dwayne Brown has been training for a long time, and until recently hasn’t had a whole lot of success, winning only around $125 000 in prizemoney in the 22 years from 2ooo to 2022. After more than 2 decades of trying it suddenly seemed to click for Brown in 2023, and […]
