Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It is 3.30 in the morning. A wee little kid named Carmel Zullo – age 2 1/2 – is asleep in her bedroom on her parent’s cane farm in Miallo, a tiny hamlet in the middle of nowhere in Far North QLD, about 40 minutes north of Port Douglas. It’s World War II, and the […]
Max Delight has been a great horse over the years. He won 3 Derbies, a Breeders Crown, a Victoria Cup and many more top races among his 37 wins for over $1.5 million dollars in prizemoney. But at the age of 10 has Max’s career come to an end? Judging by his atrocious performance when […]
Story by Cameron Bates A man has suffered critical injuries in a bizarre incident at a jockey club in Charters Towers. Queensland Ambulance Service confirmed a male in his 60s had sustained “life-threatening injuries” in an incident, believed to be the Towers Jockey Club on Hackett Tce at 1.44pm. A QAS spokeswoman said the man […]
A hitherto healthy 4yo mare named Badlifedecision races at Mackay on the 2nd of April and goes like a busted arse. She is loaded onto a float to be transported home, slips, staggers and flips, becoming prone on the ground. The mare regains its footing, then staggers and falls again falling, becoming prone. A short […]
Chariots of Fire winner the Dazzler, second from left in the front row wearing no 7, back in the glory days when he was slim DW Graham hadn’t trained a winner all year, and most people thought that the old bloke (I can say that because we’re the same age) with 4 Group 1’s, 2804 […]
Roy Chillemi trains for leading FNQ owner and all round dodger Tom Hedley, who is a very sharp man with a dollar. Chillemi entered the Hedley owned Valenki for the Open Handicap at Cairns on Thursday. Given that it was the highest rated horse in the field by far, Valenki – who had raced 3 […]
Sussan Ley’s biggest fan, a famous Riverina bookmaker, today came across the One Nation candidate to fill her recently abandoned electoral seat. Pauline’s bloke offered Ley’s man an orange shirt to wear around town to support his candicacy. Bookies being bookies and always looking for overs, our man said sure, and copped the freebie as […]
The news hot out of the NSW Supreme Court is that the three harness racing Ford brothers – Nathan, Mitchell and Tyler – charged with serious drug offences in NSW have this afternoon been granted bail. At this stage we don’t know the terms of their interim release from jail or what bail conditions the […]
Detente – the easing of hostility or strained relations The Australian Turf Club and Racing NSW seem to have struck some form of detente. Racing NSW have agreed to continue to provide the ATC with discretionary funding over and above the club’s guaranteed TB profit distributions to pay for the big races over the rest of the Autumn carnival. In return […]
The race meeting at Innisfail in North QLD this weekend is in grave danger of being scrubbed. At the close of nominations the five races on the card had the following numbers: 3, 3, 5, 4, 3. In QLD you need five acceptors for a race to go ahead. As it presently stands that means 4 […]
