Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Cam Bray is the auctioneer at the NZ Standardbred sales. Everyone who has ever been to Karaka or Christchurch for the yearling auctions knows him, if not personally then by face and name and by the great work that he does. He is universally regarded as a good and decent bloke. Bray is the President […]
Lachlan Murdoch is suing Crikey for defamation. They didn’t ask or invite him to, he just did it. It happens to me all the time. Mark Di Stefano, the writer for the Australian Financial Review, claims that Crikey published private legal correspondence between them and Murdoch. That’s bullshit. A threat letter – aka a Concerns […]
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a […]
Once upon a time, a long time ago in ancient Greece, there lived a king named Midas. King Midas loved three things more than anything else in the world – his little daughter, his rose garden, and gold. Nothing gave him more pleasure than seeing his little daughter picking roses in the garden, roses she […]
In horse racing it’s not always the horse, jockey or trainer that makes the headlines. Owners are sometimes fleeting, often fascinating and polarising. Many hold the stage only for as long as their horse is winning big races. There are “constants” like the big Arabs, Irish and big syndicate heads, but there are also those […]
The Always B Miki fans who are smarting about the story we wrote the other day putting the knock on him as a sire were quick to fire back at us after his US filly Strong Poison won the $80 000 third round of Kentucky Championship series harness racing division for 2-year-old pacing fillies at […]
The Last Chance hadn’t won a race in his past 13 starts. In fact he hadn’t won one for 9 months. At his past 8 starts the horse’s average starting price had been $42.25. On Monday night at Shepparton the bookie’s opened The Last Chance up at $34.00, which seemed about the right price given […]
We applaud the investigation currently being conducted by Racing Victoria into historical claims of sexual abuse in the industry in that State, but the question has to be asked – is it enough? Anyone who thinks that abuse only happened in racing in the dark ages is delusional. It’s happening here and now, and it […]
The word coming out of Central QLD is that the holders of slots in The Archer, the new race that kicked off earlier this year, are up in arms about changes to the conditions of the race, or – to me more precise – increases to the amount they pay for their slot. You might […]
We’ve just been told that Ahooshu, the galloper that was the subject of our earlier story, did a suspensory ligament in the race at Mackay yesterday, and has been euthanised. This of course is not the kid who rode the other horse’s fault. It is just one of those tragic accidents that sometimes occur on […]
