Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
At 6 out of 1o the past ten TAB gallops meetings in QLD there have been six horses pre-race swabbed. The most samples taken were 7, which was only once at Rockhampton, which makes sense because milkshake drenching has long been rife amidst the trainers at the track by the Fitzroy River. Three was the […]
Greyhound Racing Victoria have just released a set of proposed new national rules about screening limits for therapeutic substances, but if anyone out there can understand it without the assistance of a translator, then they are a whole lot smarter than me. The prosed new rules appear to set a limit under which the drugs […]
I’m just guessing about the man with the phone, NZ’s leading bloodstock agent Peter Lagan, bidding for Leeton, Australia businessman Michael Boots, but with leading buyers of yore Emilio Rosati and Dr Jim Giumelli absent from the sales this year, then by a process of logical deduction who else could it have been? When you […]
The Bettors Delight x Smart Dreaming colt sold for $340 000 yesterday at the Christchurch sale set a record price for a yearling buy in either NZ or Australia, and was $80 000 more than the All Stars paid for its full brother Don’t Stop Dreaming in 2021. But what sort of bargains does it […]
The record price of $340 000 paid by the TAB Racing Club for the Bettors Delight x Smart Dreaming full brother to Don’t Stop Dreaming that set the yearling sales ring alight in Christchurch yesterday has made us wonder what happened to the top priced lots from the NZ sales over previous years. Here’s a […]
In a decision that will be of great interest to Australian trot fans trying to work out the form for the Chariots of Fire, it was announced on Monday night that Merlin has beaten his arch rival Don’t Stop Dreaming to win the New Zealand 3yo male Pacer of the Year award. The win was […]
This is a cracker isn’t it? I didn’t know that race meetings in Townville on the 2oth of February were actually run 200km south in Bowen on the 2nd of February, did you? The incompetence of the QRIC never ceases to amaze.
There was one unsold yearling at the Christchurch sale today that should have been snapped up in an instant, and would have been if the NZB auctioneers had done their form and spruiked it right from the lectern. It’s lot 175, a well conformed colt by Art Major out of the Bettors Delight mare Hannah […]
How the hell did Sir Jason Grimson put an extra second of speed into the legs of Outside Fighter in the space of a few days, without making any gear changes. No notified ones at least. But there were gear changes, don’t you worry about that. It just wasn’t gear that you can see with […]
This morning we told you a story about Outside Fighter, the struggling slug that hadn’t run a place in it’s past 15 starts who had been transferred into the care of the world’s greatest trainer Sir Jason Grimson within the past 7 days. We said that if Sir Jason could conjure up a win with […]
