Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Stop laughing ya bugger, it’s not funny Melbourne Merv Butterworth is a man whose cups currently floweth over. He owns the elite class NZ 3YO Sharp N Smart, AND he owns the champion pacer Copy That. Some people have all the luck, but it’s earned not gained. Merv told me Copy That was a certainty. […]
How good is this for a sports bucket list completed? 1. Watching Rod Laver in 1960 and again in 1969 (along with Margaret Court) 2. Attending every day of the first ever tied Test in 1960-61 3. The first State of Origin in 1980 when Arthur Beetson entered the arena to the chants of “Artie, Artie’’ 4. Attending […]
The best thing about Queensland racing is the consistency of the QRIC Stewards. I just love it. This is the Stewards report from race 4 at the country meeting at Einasleigh Stewards considered an objection lodged by L. Morrison the rider of I LOVE ROCK’N’ROLL which finished 3RD against MISHANI REBOIUND being declared the winner […]
At the start of last year the CEO of the Waikato Bay of Plenty Harness Inc – the Cambridge club – Dave Branch was being vaunted as the architect of the slot race project that was to become The Race By Grins. It was Branch’s baby we were told. HRNZ programmed the race because he […]
Dean Elliott (top), and Flik from A Bugs Life (above). Twins separated at birth. Despite all the bullshit, bluster and bluff, it appears that one way or another Ben Yole is stuffed. That is blindingly obvious by the fact that Harness Racing SA CEO Dean ‘Flik’ Elliott is openly telling harness racing participants that he has […]
Back when I grew up in Geebung, if your dog bit the drunk next door who beat the crap out of his wife so hard every night that she screamed and wailed the Council would seize it and take it to the pound and put it down. Not the prick who took his belt to […]
Well which one is it? Is the Lyell Creek a Mobile Free For All or a Standing Start Discretionary Handicap? It can’t be both. The statement at the top was made by Harness Racing New Zealand earlier in the week. What you see directly above is the conditions for the Lyell Creek published on the […]
6.50pm tonight, Australian time. Cambridge Trots r8 no 11. Akuta. I cannot believe that the bookies are betting $8.00 this superstar in the Grinner. They did bet $10.00. We snaffled that. Akuta is the greatest certainty since Phar Lap in the 1930 Cup. Get on. And just keep getting on. It’s money for jam.
How the hell does this work? On Monday last week bush trainer Mark Oates accidentally left a lead bag out of the saddle of one of his runners at a bush meeting at Longreach, and the QRIC fine him $1000. The following Sunday at the Sunshine Coast leading trainer Tony Gollan’s stable foreman Craig Cavanough […]
We wrote a story about the woes of bookie Betr 2days ago. 48 hours later the Sydney Morning Herald have caught up. You always hear it here first ————————————————- PETERPROFIT – Betr was launched only 6 months ago to huge fanfare and publicity on the back of it’s ill-thought out improperly framed $101 odds betting […]
