Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 1 at Melton was the biggest boatie I have ever seen in my life, I’m not pointing the finger of blame at any particular driver and saying they were responsible, I am just saying that this race was red hot and ten times hotter again. Take a look at the fluctuations. Little Louie was […]
There is a potentially interesting matter going before the QLD Racing Appeals Panel on Monday. It’s jockey Gemma Steele’s appeal against a $200 fine issued to her for failing to weight in after a race at Bundaberg last Saturday week. It is an unusual one, for Steele’s horse finished 5th and due to its placing […]
Archie The QRIC review was always going to be a waste of time and money. Mail is that KPMG have come up with some recommendations as part of their review into QRIC and decided that the Commissioner, Shane Gillard will stay on in his role but with additional help and oversight. Apparently, they will propose […]
We have been threated with defamation action or similar by the lawyer for Swoosh Finance, the money lender sponsor of the Capalaba Greyhound Racing Club that featured in a few stories last week about the inappropriateness of the club promoting it on their media. This is our reply. The lawyers name is Parker, and as […]
So jockey Ryan Moore bowls into town from England and, having studied the form on his iPad on the plane on the way over, decides that his mount in the Rosehill Guineas Cap Ferrat – who has been ridden from the back in each of his previous 6 starts would benefit from being ridden up […]
Shirley Loraine Ross is a 78-year-old Kiwi woman who used to train greyhounds but due to ill-health hadn’t had a runner for 2 years. Despite this Shirley hung on t0 her greyhound license in hope that she would one day get back to the track. Hope is very important for elderly people who are unwell. […]
A cowboy never says goodbye, it’s not in his nature – Kurt Philip Behm At the grand old near retirement age of 12 the great Fabs Cowboy did it again yesterday, ripping his much younger rivals apart to win his 53rd race in the Open at Moranbah. That win made it 3 in a row […]
When Jamie Kah was just seventeen years old and riding in Adelaide a mate of mine told me to look out for this jockey, saying that she had the equal best posture and balance he’d seen in all his years of watching races, which was many. If all Kah’s successes over the years hadn’t already […]
How the hell did Rachel King manage to stay on Ozzmosis at the start of the Galaxy Handicap yesterday? It was a work of genius horsepersonship just like Jamie Kah’s. King could win a gold medal at the Olympics too. Ozzmosis – Correct weight was delayed while Stewards reviewed the start to establish whether Ozzmosis […]
Kevin Seymour AM may well be Australia’s 167th richest man with a fortune of almost $900 million, but gee he has an eye for a high quality bargain priced buy. Seymour paid $47 500 for Leap To Fame, which at age just early 5 has already won $2.76 million, with a heap more to come. […]
