Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How does a hitherto healthy six-year-old gelding get beaten 30 lengths in a race, get examined by the vet and show signs of colic, return to it’s stable, collapse and die? Oakfield Hiawatha did last Saturday afternoon at Home Hill. The Stewards reported that samples were taken from the horse while it was dead. I […]
Jason Grimson is currently occupying rarefied air. Last December, he won the Inter Dominion Grand Final with a talented, but far from elite pacer named Boncel Benjamin. During the Queensland winter carnival, he won the Blacks A Fake with a talented, but far from elite pacer named Majestic Cruiser. And, on Saturday night, he claimed […]
We have written about former racing Steward Neil Boyle on a number of occasions. It is our view that after the incident involving him sending unwanted lewd texts and pictures to an apprentice jockey a couple of years ago – actions that saw him quietly walked out the door – he should never have been […]
I don’t think Australian’s understand the importance of the top hat at Royal Ascot. It is a crucial piece of attire required for the gentlemen to fit into place at the week-long festival of racing at the Royal meeting. Sir Henry Cecil’s top hat was perhaps one of the most famous and most regal head […]
The scheming, scamming, stooging fools in charge of the Auckland Trotting Club have called a meeting to boot New Zealand’s best investigative racing writer, the award winning Dr Barry Lichter, out of the club. What’s the Doctor’s alleged crime? Writing the truth about last month’s Annual General Meeting. WTF? Isn’t that what racing writers are […]
The field for the NZ 3YO Sires Stakes on Tuesday is a cracker, oozing quality from top to bottom. It’s just a shame about the draw. Mark Purdon has six runners in the race. His best two – Sherlock and Don’t Stop Dreaming – are drawn 1-2 off the front. Another three are 1-2-3 off […]
A lot of people are bagging Zac Lloyd’s ride on Quick Tempo in Sydney on Cup Day, but they are talking through their arses. Take a look at the head on of the race in the straight (Lloyd’s in the yellow and black on the fence), and you tell me what’s wrong with it. The […]
Former Fairfax racing editor and Senior Olympics reported John ‘Lucky’ Lingard hasn’t lost his touch, either at race writing, tipping or punting. He nailed a 100-1 multi on Derby Day, and a 40-1 one too. Loaded up he did. Texted me a picture of himself lying on a bed covered in green ton notes, with […]
The last time that I looked Brad Tamer, the former spokesperson for Australia’s largest corporate bookie Tabcorp, was the General Manager of Operations at QRIC, and earning more money than any pleb Steward in the joint. Now, just a few months later, here he is performing low-level Steward duties on the panel at Eagle Farm […]
Louis Grasso first came across my radar screen when I began investigating Eclipse Award-winning owner Michael Gill’s Elk Creek Ranch in Pennsylvania in 2010. Gill, who had been the leading North American owner by wins and money earned in 2009 – the fourth time he led both categories – had assembled what I called a “Gang […]
