Glen Craven Should Hang His Head in Shame – Bloody Ballerinas
Jilliby Ballerina was the $1.08 favorite to win the Group 3 Lyn McPherson Need For Speed Trot at Melton on Saturday night, and quite rightly albeit a little unders, for on form she is the second best mare in Australia, behind only her champion stablemate Keayang Zahara, who is the 2nd best trotter that the […]
The Punter Who Complained About Winning 282 Grand – What an Absolute Clown
Mr L – let’s call him Lala for the sake of simplicity – was a punter who bet with bookmaker.com, which reveals that he is an idiot from the start, given that it was an Entain branded corporate that had all but been abandoned at the time that he was punting, and probably only stayed […]
Best Wishes to Herbie
Champion driver James Herbertson is not too well right now. On behalf of myself and all the readers of peterprofit.com I wish him good health, and a speedy recovery. He is a good young bloke from a good family. Let’s hope his bad luck turns good quick.
Something Weird Went On Here I Reckon, Even if the Stipes Don’t
This below is the Open class race at Blackall on Saturday. The horse drawn the 1 is Han Dynasty, the winner of 26 from 51. It’s never missed the start in its life. The horse in gate 2 is Itsourtime, a dual Group 3 winner in Victoria when trained by Danny O’Brien. It doesn’t miss […]
Iran is Not That Foreign a Country From Geebung – Don’t You Worry About That
Me wearing Dad’s Commonwealth chauffeur’s hat, in the same year he drove the Shah The Shah of Iran was the bloke in charge of the country that the first Ayatollah violently overthrew. He and his wife came to visit Australia in 1974. My dad was 30 at the time, and worked as a Commonwealth driver. […]
The Careless Riding That Apparently Wasn’t
This is race 2 from Launceston Cup day last Wednesday. One of, if not the, biggest race days on the Tasmanian calendar. Liam Riordan is on the horse in the Godolphin-like blue but a little bit lighter with the white cap coming widest around the turn. See how many he knocked down?* Depending on whether […]
Mystery Solved? – Who Knows What Lies Beneath the Eye of the Drones
We wrote the story above 4 months ago, and the one below 2 months before that. Meet Mr Nobody – Western Queenland’s Newest Trainer Well the good news is that the question has finally been answered. Trainer Terry Hall, formerly of Cloncurry, has taken over all the horses that NSW trainer Brett Cavanough supposedly trained […]
From Royal Ascot to Gatton – It’s a Long Way to the Top if You Wanna Rock n’ Roll – But Its Even Further Down
Four and a half years ago Albion Square raced in the Listed Windsor Castle at Royal Ascot, after having broken his maiden the previous start at Navan (IRE). Next he went to the Curragh, and ran in a Group 2, then he went to Naas for a Group 1 race, back to the Curragh for […]
A Gambling Man?
Dear Peter QRIC have a strict gambling policy which I’m pretty sure means you can’t bet on anything when you’re on duty, even stuff that you’re otherwise allowed to bet on. (Editor’s note – It’s our understanding that QRIC Stewards aren’t allowed to bet on anything at all, although we may be mistaken). Notwithstanding the […]