Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
It was Boort Cup day on Sunday, and a great day of harness racing it was in the main indeed. But there were two major blights on an otherwise fantastic card. Races 6 and 8. Each was run for prizemoney of a miserable $4000, with just $2000 to the winner. The worst races at Burnie […]
Gilbert and my good self wandered over the road to the APG Yearling Sale up at Middle Swan today, keen to see who would be emptying their pockets chasing Harness’s “Clayton’s Pot of Gold”…you know the stakes boost you see when you don’t actually have a stakes boost? With “Diamonds and Pearls” playing over the […]
Kevin and Kay Seymour or their grandson and their trainer Grant Dixon won almost everything there was to win at the QLD Harness Racing Awards on Sunday night. The Seymour’s won Owner of the Year and Breeder of the Year. Dixon won Trainer of the Year. Leap To Fame of course won Horse of the […]
The race caller at Gatton on Sunday insisted on calling the Goodes the horse Goudz. Why? Adam Goodes was the Australian of the Year. Everyone knows how to pronounce his name. Goodes, as in goods. It is not Goudz. What sort of wankery is that? I know the caller doesn’t mean it to be, but […]
RACE 5: GC BOWLS CLUB MARCH 15TH 0 – 60 HANDICAP 1000 M Following this race, Apprentice L. Martyn, who was struck in the face by a clod during the race, was examined by QAS officers and cleared to fulfill her remaining engagements. Is it any wonder that poor Leah Martyn got hit by a […]
Catch A Wave was once a great horse, one of the best in the nation. When he was four he won the Group 1 Chariots Of Fire and the Miracle Mile, and at five he won the Group 1 Nullarbor and the Len Smith Mile. But time waits for no man. Catch a Wave is […]
Tasmanian trot caller Matt Roberts had a long night calling races on the Hobart Cup card yesterday evening. It told by the time he came to the last race. Roberts made two howlers. Got it wrong not once but twice. First he called the horse on the inside as number 8 Mister Eagle, when in […]
Coming into the first race at Albion Park last night the 9y0 gelding Tinder Surprise has raced 67 time and won 9 races. The fastest of all those wins was in at Melton in 1.55.4. Tinder Surprise entered last night’s race with form of 9646. Based on that form and the horse’s relatively slow fastest […]
The nude tipster Dr Georgia Whiting just landed her each-way special at Flemington. At 20-1! Getta Good Feeling it was. She did indeed. Dr Whiting’s other special Observer won too. If you were smart enough to multi them up you got $40 the double. And if took her 4 in the first and last legs […]
