Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
When I first watched the 9th race at Bathurst I was going t0 write a story about the atrocious call, for I would have bet my life that the inside horse had won the race, while the caller firmly believed that the outside had. We were both right, and we were both wrong. It was […]
Jason Grimson (left) and Jack Trainor, the Navarro and Servis of NSW Harness Racing. They are just the little fish. It’s mighty big gallops trainers too. Warwick Farm is the clue. Jorge Navarro sat at the bar at Monmouth Park, a track in Oceanport, N.J., with an owner he trained horses for named Randall Gindi. […]
The Captain actually looks a bit like Cracker too, doesn’t he? All Nate needs is the hat. There is a red hot story floating around about the Miracle Mile, Captain Ravishing, it’s owner, Mach Dan’s driver, undue instructions on how to drive that horse, Emma and Clay and a stable change. Sound confusing? It is, […]
Ryan Backhouse is only 18, I get that. But trot racing is a big kids game, and people invest hundreds of thousands of dollars on each race. They expect better than what young Backhouse gave them in the last at Melton on Saturday night, and if the lad can’t deliver it while he’s a teenager […]
Redcliffe trot trainer Donny Smith has been on a roll after training 4 winners from 5 0ver the weekend, but I fear that the excitement of his outstanding achievements has ruined Donny’s brain. Mr D. Smith claims that his rating 90 pacer Uptown Beach Girl, the winner of a Band 4 – Band 2 pace […]
The bloke in the picture is Gary Lane, known to one and all in New Zealand as Bluey. Bluey used to work for the horse moving company Majestic Transport, until he was accused of spiking up horses with prohibited drugs on their way to the track. These days he works for Robert Dunn and his […]
David Moodie was once the Chairman of Racing Victoria. He was also the paedophile trainer Gerald Ryan’s biggest owner, and his greatest supporter. When Dan Nikolic spoke out about Ryan’s attack on him as an apprentice, and other jockey’s who had been victims of the grub trainer’s abuse or attempted abuse joined in the chorus […]
STEWARDS REPORT – RACE 8 8 There’s A Shadow – Shortened stride and appeared injured in the back straight. and lost ground around the second turn. A post-race veterinary examination revealed a nearside front stopper bone injury and stood down from racing for 42 days and will need to perform a veterinary clearance trial. This will […]
The hot word on the street is that Jim Murdoch QC is soon to be appointed as the inaugural Chairperson of the QLD Racing Appeals Tribunal, the body that is soon to assume responsibility for the majority of immediate objections to decisions made by Stewards in the State north of the Tweed. If this is […]
There were 128 lots in yesterday’s Nutrien QLD sale. Only 54 of them were sold. That’s a live sale rate of just 42.9%. Or to put it in the alternative, its a pass in rate of a massive 57.1%, Or in other words, an abject failure. Be careful what you wish for breeders, cos you […]
