Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What do reckon this owner of Gold Trip said as it crossed the line in last year’s Melboure Cup? You don’t need to be a lip reader do you? I would say it too if I won the Cup. But if you are a bit slow here’s a clue. It rhymes with duck.
Colin De Fillipi is best known in Australia as the driver of Courage Under Fire, the pocket rocket who was one of the greatest young pacers ever seen in the Southern Hemisphere. I wonder if Flip kicked in the guts too? What the hell was going on at Hororata today? Why are these drivers such […]
In about the middle of last year the NZ trainer/driver Terry Chmiel was locked in certainty to come to QLD to take up a job as a QRIC Steward. He’d been offered the role and accepted it, and was in the process of selling off his stable stock and moving them over to other trainers, […]
Firstly, I’ll admit I was wrong in regards to Expensive Ego is the Hunter Cup. As Archie quite rightly pointed out it’s run was very unlucky and full of merit. Originally it was never the plan for the McCarthy horse to go to Melbourne and race in the Hunter Cup but it was going so […]
I can’t remember seeing a more reckless piece of riding than that of Josh Parr on Hellish in the Inglis Millennium at Randwick yesterday. It puts Greg Hall’s madness on Merlene in the 1996 Slipper in the shade, Hall was put out for 2 months and fined $50 000, which would be worth double that […]
Mr Brightside’s run in the CF Orr yesterday wasn’t just the best of the day, it was the best of the entire year. Last year’s Doncaster winner ran the fastest sectional splits for every furlong except the first, and ran his final 1200m in 1.07.52, which was 0.34 seconds faster than any other horse in […]
Did you see Cafe Millennium win the first at Randwick yesterday? Holy hell, isn’t this some sort of colt? How do you drop out last four lengths behind the 2nd last horse and do what he did? Most 2YO’s can’t. In fact the vast majority of gallopers of any age can’t do it. But he […]
"Given the margin of a short-head and given the amount of interference it's the stewards view that had the interference not occurred that Jacquinot would've finished ahead of Gentleman Roy therefore the objection is upheld." pic.twitter.com/aeMyysTt0v — 7HorseRacing 🐎 (@7horseracing) February 11, 2023 I can’t see the logic of the Stewards upholding the protest in […]
Anamoe was brilliant first up today in the Apollo, and would look to have the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at his mercy, except for one thing. No, not the internationals Not any Australian horse either. The one that stands in his way is a Kiwi, and a 3YO at that. Sharp N Smart. I have been […]
Watch this. Keep your eyes on the Currie horse, the one with the red and blue sleeves and the yellow cap. See what the rider John Kissick did? My God. Kissick didn’t drop his hands because he thought he was home and got complacent. He did it so the horse wouldn’t win. This is disgraceful. […]
