Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
After last week Mack the knife taking to my pieces on Keayang and the quality of the potential Hunter Cup field I’ll say a couple of things before I indulge myself regarding this weeks Cranbourne Cup. Keayang won’t take on the pacers to meet Mack’s requirements to take Maoris Idol mantle. They don’t need to. […]
What a brilliant race the Cranbourne Cup is going to be. The race of the year. Twice in a month. Gee I love the trots. Let’s get the silly hype out of the way first. You’re going to hear these fairytale stories about the giant killer Bulletproof Boy, but ignore them, because he can’t stay. […]
Or Larry. Or Swayzee. Or Bulletproof Boy. Or whatever you like. I just can’t wait until Saturday night!
We are told that the decision on what to do with the Deagon racecourse has been put back to about Easter time. I think the answer however is already known. Why would Racing QLD have set aside asset funding for an Apprentice Jockey Centre at the Gold Coast when they already have one at Deagon? […]
Blood drowned brain dead bits It has come to our attention that we made an ignorant error in our story about apprentice jockey Tom Orr being fined $200 for not claiming his allowance at Thangool on Saturday. We said that Racing QLD and the QRIC were negligent for allowing a 1.5kg claiming apprentice like Orr […]
A lot of people want to tell you that the genius of Jason Grimson is placing horses right. That is bullshit. When Grimson got Oursurfinsafari the horse has raced 15 times as an NR 30, the lowest rating that a pacer can be. It hadn’t won any of them, and had only placed in one. […]
All sorts of good people come up to visit the bride and I up here at Chez Butterfly in Port Douglas, most of them from NSW, Victoria and South Australia. Bookmakers, Group 1 winning jockeys, Melbourne Cup winning trainers, Stewards, heavyweight champion boxers, top ten singers, multi millionaire business people, pro punters, career crims, top […]
Clip Clop Kev has hit the news up here in Paradise (Port Douglas) as the developer of a new estate on the road into town opposite the Sheraton Mirage. What the Port Douglas reporters don’t realize is that Mr Seymour has been up here forever. He owned a super flash villa in the Mirage complex […]
It was only a trial at the Gold Coast on Tuesday, but gee this 2YO looked good. And with a name like that why wouldn’t he? How gracious of Jay Bellamy was it to name his horse after this website? After all, we named the site after the horse that beat his family’s great champion […]
Mature age apprentice Tom Orr (pictured above) clearly has some problems with his weight, but the young man has to stop wasting or it could do him serious long-term damage. Orr’s registered riding weight is 55.5kg, which while light by normal standards for someone who is 170cm (5ft 6″), is a bit too heavy for […]
