Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hi Archie, No doubt about it, RWWA gets the Gold Logie when it comes to cowering to the big end of town and tilting the odds in their favour. Race 10 on Friday Night is a 3 year old race, a $21,000 race with “NO NR, PBD MW” listed as the conditions. For the uninitiated, […]
Queensland’s former premier trainer turned racing manager Ben Currie looks to be out of work judging by the above message sent by trainer Billy Healey to stable clients yesterday. Whilst the message doesn’t state it explicitly, the obvious inference is that Healey has sacked Currie from his managerial role at the racing operation, an unexpected […]
Peter Profit Your story on Toowoomba racing starting late. What about the other States? It is a joke, they are always running late. I was always of the understanding that the Stewards were their to ensure that races started on time. And that horses paraded in plenty of time to proceed to the starting gates, […]
Race 5 at the Pinjarra trots this afternoon. The 8 American Eyes is unbeaten in 4 starts and looks like a real good horse in the making. It blows from $1.65 out to $2.10. The 10 horse Captain Said So looked like a good horse earlier on its career, but has finished a pair of […]
You can’t really blame the 23-year-old Maggie for looking at me with lust in her eyes like this, can you? Or her continuing to look at me the same way exactly 30 years to the day later? Or me her either. I love my wife. She’s as hot now as was she was when we […]
How lucky are Grant Dixon and Kevin Seymour? They have pulled the plum draws in all the big races at Albion Park on Saturday night in which their top runners are a hope. Fire and Passion has drawn the pole in the $50 000 Group 3 Breeders Classic final for colts and geldings. Cherries On […]
Story by Michael Morrah, NZ Herald A charter plane is being “covertly” arranged to send 70 greyhounds to Australia to continue breeding and racing as the deadline for shutting the New Zealand industry looms. Information about the flight was sent by Greyhound Racing New Zealand (GRNZ) to trainers and owners on a private Facebook group […]
Racing NSW CEO Peter V’Landys has announced that he will take 4 months long service leave from the role to allow him to concentrate all of his efforts on running the NRL after the departure of footy CEO Anthony Abdo. V’Landys deputy Graeme Hinton will act in the CEO role during his absence. PVL is […]
After months of campaigning on the issue by this website, today Globe Derby Park finally moved into the 21st century by transitioning from hand held tapes to automatic release beginning for standing start races. An end to slow or staggered release starts disadvantaging horse drawn from the back marks. No more avoidable human errors. Why […]
CAPTAIN EAGLE – Began awkwardly. When questioned regarding the tactics adopted, specifically his riding from the 600m, apprentice B. Wheeler stated that his instructions were to let the horse flow, not to place pressure on the gelding’s mouth, that the horse had been successful at the track when ridden this way, and with the big […]
