Blake Fitzpatrick Leaves the Lane, And Gifts Michael Stanley $81 Pop the Gold Bracelet – They Should Have Put Zara On
The Michael Stanley trained $81 shot Soho Honey Rider won the $100 000 final of the Group 2 Bathurst Gold Bracelet on Saturday night, but if it hadn’t been for driver error by Zara Fitzpatrick’s dad Blake it wouldn’t have. B. Fitzpatrick had the leader and favorite Lux Aterna’s back on his brother’s horse Libby […]
Another Young Star Joins the Ranks of Contenders for The Protostar
The already seemingly golden season of superstar 2yo pacers had another contender for best in show added to its ranks when the Russell Jack trained Its Confidential brained its rivals by 31m yesterday over 1760m at Wagga, running final sections of 27.9 and 26.9 to record an overall mile rate of 1.54.2. That’s super time […]
Carter Dalgety is a Gun
After Carter Dalgety won the last at Addington on Saturday with a brilliant steer on Watermelon Sugar, the Trackside NZ commentator declared that he was the best young driver New Zealand had seen since the days of Dexter Dunn or Anthony Butt. It’s a proposition that’s pretty hard to disagree with based on his record […]
HRNSW Race Programming Puts Trainers, Drivers and Stable Staff at Risk
The last race at the feature Bathurst Gold meeting on Saturday night ended after 11.00pm. After that the trainers and their drivers had to attend to swabbing requirements, wash their horses down, load them and their gear onto their floats and trucks, take them home, unload the horse, stable them and make sure they have […]
Jockey Cam – What the Hell’s the Point?
The boffins at Racing Victoria very rarely get their big ideas right. For proof look at the now abandoned mandatory scanning of international runners in the Melbourne Cup; the now abandoned ‘race only 6 days a week’ policy; the now abandoned whip-free race meeting; the all but abandoned idea to build a new national peak […]
They’re All Just Taking the Mickey in WA
We wrote earlier about the rules being bent to allow Gary Hall Jr drive horses in races trained by others against his own horses that he trains, and here we have another example, again from Friday night. Gary Hall Jr’s (Junior’s) father Gary Hall Sr (Senior) is one of WA’s leading trainers. Junior also holds […]
The $160 000 Might Prove Cheap Yet
The current owners of the greyhound Mackenna paid $160 ooo for the privilege. Most people, including us, thought they were mad. After last night it appears that it may have been us who were the crazy ones. Mackenna won his heat of the Golden Easter Egg in a scintillating 29.20 to advance to the semi-finals […]
QLD Stewards Just Go From Bad to Worse – The Duddest Protest Decision in the World
The horse in the orange and black and white won a protest against the winner Supposedly the winner chopped it out on the turn and cost it the race. Pigs fly too. People sometimes ask me why I criticise the QRIC so much. The simple answer is because they deserve it. Here is proof positive. […]
I Wonder if Peter V’Landys Would Be Supporting Latrell So Strongly if He Knew All About Cairns?
I said very early in his career, if you don’t pull him into line now you’re never going to be able to and I think that Latrell Mitchell has become bigger than some of the people that are trying to control him,” Gould said on Nine’s 100% Footy. “For Latrell the only advice I would […]