Penrith Finally Speak – But What the Hell Are They Saying?
It’s well known by now that the local MP Stuart Ayres and his man the NSW Premier want to resume the land on which the Penrith Paceway currently races and turn it into a new stadium for the Panthers. What is less known is the Penrith Harness Racing Club’s position on the whole thing, and […]
Archie Analyses Today’s Ashburton Flying Stakes, and Comes Up With a Bird – It’s Assured
The Ashburton Flying Stakes is – like the NZ Trotting Cup for pacers – one of the silliest named races in the world, for if you didn’t know you’d guess for all money it was a mobile start over a mile. It’s not though, it’s a 2400m race from a stand. It is also one […]
The World Wakes Up to Sharp ‘N’ Smart – Well Sort Of Anyway
For a long time there I was a lone voice in the wilderness shouting about how Sharp ‘N’ Smart was a champion, and it took until Saturday for the ‘experts’ in the mainstream media to wake up and realise that I was telling the truth. Now they have they are all over him, with some […]
There Are Only Five Chances in the Cup
There have been only six female Cup winners in the past 50 years, including Makybe Diva who won 3 times. The others were Jezabeel, Ethereal, Verry Elleegant, Empire Rose and Let’s Elope. Just six horses aged 7 have won it in the last half century: Verry Ellegant, Makybe Diva, Vintage Crop, Almandin, Rogan Josh and […]
Don’t Think There Are No Louis Grasso’s in Australia or NZ, Because There Are
Have a read of this story that the US leading racing website the Paulick Report published yesterday. 4000 units of EPO, for just one trainer. The mind boggles. Don’t think that it doesn’t happen here, because it does. In fact it all starts in the Southern Hemisphere. Specifically Australia and New Zealand. If you don’t […]
They Are Weird Mob
This is my wife Maggie’s great-grandfather, Herbert Charles Cull, aka Aiden De Brune, a once famous Australian author. From 1921 to 1924 he spent two years walking around Australia, becoming the first person ever to do so in the process. In 1920 he was working as a journalist at the Bunbury Herald when suddenly he […]
Yet Another Way to Lose at the Track
A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York on Friday convicted Lafayette Morrison of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery under the Hobbs Act in connection with the March 7, 2020 armed robbery of more than $280,000 in cash from Aqueduct. Morrison and co-defendant Lamel Miller were also convicted of brandishing a firearm, and Morrison of […]
Like a True Racing Child, I Was Born, Born To Be Wild
I always wanted to be tough. Boxing didn’t do it. Tatts didn’t do it. Homelessness didn’t do it, or living on bet drunk bones of my arse for years. Not even incarceration did. But now, thanks to the Sport of Stings, I have made it. What the punt taketh away, the punt gives back in […]
Brett Finch is the Devil – He Deserves No Sympathy at All
Have you ever heard a greater load of bullshit in your life than the yarn that Brett Finch tried to sew at his sentencing hearing last week? He spent 3 months on a chatroom talking about doing horrible things to little children because he was an addict who was hoping to score coke. Seriously, that […]