Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
By Damon Runyon ONE night I am in a gambling joint in Miami watching the crap game and thinking what a nice thing it is, indeed, to be able to shoot craps without having to worry about losing your potatoes. Many of the high shots from New York and Detroit and St. Louis and other […]
It’s not often that you see Luke McCarthy get his pants pulled down on a trot track, but in race three at Menangle on Saturday night we did. Luke was driving the Kiwi superstar Marketplace for the first time in a race. Marketplace is a horse who excels when sit sprinting, and is equally as […]
They might have scored a draw in Gallipoli with the home ground advantage, but the Turks were never going to knock us off on neutral turf. $5.50. The bookies were kidding themselves. Xmas came early. Get on the Japanese to knock off the clog wearers at $3.60 in the morning too. The Dutch are all […]
I listened to an interview re Melton this morning. It’s clearly history. Moonee Valley is not an option, it’s a waste of anyone’s time that they even talked about it. They’ll go to Bendigo I reckon, which is crown land, once the government gives them a portion of the Melton money. It’ll be a pittance […]
Hi Archie When you look at the photo finish the white line is not drawn on the correct angle. If you look at the photo finish mirror on the infield the line does not start in the middle of the mirror but well in front of it. Move it back to the correct position and […]
I don’t know what it says, or what it is all about, but this clearly offensive graffiti appeared on disqualified trainer Luke O’Neill’s fence this morning. It appears to be tit for tat for the crap that has been painted on the Johnson family’s fence and at Globe Derby recently. The whole thing is madness. […]
Regular readers will know that long ago we tagged Nathan Jack with the nickname Cracker, as in Cracker Jack. Well tonight Cracker was in the cart of a Kiwi import named after him. Crackerjack it was called of course. Cracker drove Crackerjack to win. I backed it at $8.00. It firmed into $4.40. Onya you […]
A couple of days ago we declared Minos an absolute certainty at Albion Park, and begged you to take the tip. Hope you did. It shit in. $2.80 we got, and are wishing you did too. Leap To Fame holds the track record at Albion Park. It is the greatest pacer ever seen. Minos is […]
Race 4 in Sydney. The outside wins for sure. Or so you think. It doesn’t. The inside horses number goes up in the frame. WTF? How the hell did that happen? I know the still shot I have put up is a quarter of a stride before the post. But puh-lease!
It’s Stradbroke Handicap day, Queensland’s greatest race meeting, and it’s come up mud. The track right now is a Heavy 9, but this is Eagle Farm, the fastest draining track in the world, so if the rain stays away we are a huge chance of the surface improving. At the moment the BOM weather radar […]
