Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Most Australians over 18 who have ever been to a nightclub or disco have danced to the sound of New Order’s famous song Blue Monday. I can remember watching it on Countdown when the song was released. That was 40 years ago this week. Can you believe it? Gee I am getting old. I think […]
The Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings have been released, and as usual they are a load of palaver. Three Hong Kong horses – Golden Sixty, Romantic Warrior and Californian Spangle – head the rankings, meaning that the trio from the tiny pool of horses on the now Chinese-owned island are supposedly the best three gallopers […]
Racing Victoria remind me of the kid who packs his bat and ball up when you bowl him middle stump in a game of backyard cricket and runs home to mummy and says Mama those boys are mean. Or they would if it were not for one thing. We are not playing in the back […]
Just when you thought racing politics couldn’t get any murkier. It was industry gossip late last year that Racing NSW wouldn’t pay rich strapper bonuses, paid to the handler of the winning horse, if the winning trainer was licenced outside of New South Wales. The common reaction was, to paraphrase, ‘surely not?’, considering that for […]
Check this one out. It’s the last race at Menangle on Tuesday. There are only two possible chances in the race. One of them is the $1.20 favorite in betting Peaceful, the other is Jewel Melody at $3.50. The next closes horse in the betting is at $34.00. Jewel Melody beats Peaceful by a half […]
In what sport in the world are a bunch of largely unqualified officials left to decide whether breaking the rules to win okay or not? Mmm, Ben Johnson was juiced up on Stanozolol, but would he have won the 100m gold at the Seoul Olympics if he wasn’t IOC Ian? Of course he would have […]
When I watched the 3rd race at Randwick on the Kenso yesterday I thought it was off, and a boatie for sure. It just shows how wrong you can be. Have a look yourself and tell me that it didn’t look like all the other riders sat off the well-backed leader Journalism, and allow the […]
Gee this was a funny ride by Brodie Loy on the topweight Deep Romance in the 3rd race at Doomben yesterday. He is the one in the black and white sitting out the back in 2nd place for most or the race. The horse – who is well in the market – starts to improve […]
This bloke was the subject of a national manhunt in New Zealand after he shot a bloke twice at a gang pad and bolted on a plane. He would have been hard to find wouldn’t he? I hope the arresting officer got a medal. They deserve it for recognising this master of disguise.
Animal welfare investigations are growing in number and complexity are they? This is what the NZ RIB Commissioner Mike Clement – a man who had never even been to the races before he was appointed to the job – claims. Really? Where is the evidence of this so-called increase in animal welfare cases in New […]
