Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is race 4 at Doomben yesterday. Watch the horse 2nd last on the outside in the green gold and light blue colors. It’s name is Different Road, trained by Chris Waller and ridden by Jim Byrne. How the hell did Byrne not go down? It was a masterly piece of riding by the champion […]
This is the cover page of a feature story about Toowoomba trainer Tony Sears in this month’s edition of Racing Queensland’s ‘Race’ Magazine. My mail suggests that RQ may at sometime before the end of the year come to regret their slavish praise of Sears. I’m not to going to tell you why right now. […]
Jesus, what high class racing we have at Redcliffe on a Wednesday night. The sort of card that is only for the true believers, the desperate punters, and the crazy. Just look at this field. Between the nine starters they’ve had 225 starts. Each have won as single race. That’s 9 wins all up across […]
The double-edged sword of incomings versus outgoings dealt the racing industry two more deep slashes in its death by a thousand cuts when TAB NZ released its December 2022 result last week. Disastrous December! Profit came in at only $14.0 million compared to $16.1 million for December 2021. This result came despite the most recent […]
It tells you a lot about Australia’s historic obsession with horse racing and betting that the man who invented the totalisator, George Julius, was knighted for his work. The complex machine, initially designed to count votes, found flight as an on-course method of calculating dividends for horse racing and having started out in New Zealand […]
My mate Pro loser hasn’t had a collect in years his horse was $9 trainer said good chance too 3 he backed it and it won. Then after so many losses he gets this welcome to the club email. pic.twitter.com/HzxNU9DXrZ — David Lloyd (@zzzLLOYDYzzz) February 14, 2023
How does this work? On 7 February 2022 trainer David Moran (of Lochinvar Art fame) was suspended for 7 months, effective immediately, after being found guilty of betting offences, hitting his ex-partner’s new boyfriend in the head, tipping the ex out of her cart, and lying to Stewards by falsely reporting that he had seen […]
Well it was nice of the new HRV Chief Steward to turn up to a couple of meetings and get his picture taken, but where has he gone? It looks like Pete the Plodder (Chadwick) is up to his old tricks and spending race days in the office opening and closing doors and shuffling papers. […]
The Gold Coast poly track certainly doesn’t look or play like one. It races more like the Bundaberg sand. This is what leading poly track builder Martin Collins says about the surfaces it builds. Polytrack is scientifically proven to minimise the risk of injury and provide a consistent, secure surface for horses to perform to […]
I think harness racing is facing real challenges, and while I still enjoy it, I also want to investigate what my future, and that of the boys – Mark Purdon Champion harness trainer Mark Purdon has revealed the extent of his thoroughbred training ambitions as his All Stars stable gets ready for its next evolution. […]
