Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Pukekohe trainer Derek Balle has been left fuming after his stable star was, he claims, poached by another trainer. Aardiebythehill is on a truck south to Canterbury at present where he will link up with the Woodend Beach arm of Robert and Jenna Dunn’s dual-island operation. The promising trotter’s move was decided by Canadian owner […]
Josh Aloiai was of the seven Manly players who refused to wear a jersey with rainbows on it because he thinks his God tells him that homosexuality is bad. I wonder if his God thinks that stabbing church leaders in the back with steak knives is good? He must, for Aloiai was in court supporting […]
Suppose you said this world we live in today has an unrecognisable skew to it, utterly foreign from what we knew even a short five years ago. In that case, you could be talking about politics, extreme climate events, violence, crime, inflation, cost of living, education, All Black rugby, work prospects or the potential for […]
Can you see the problem with the picture? I think it’s obvious. The new QRIC Commissioner, like the one before him, and like almost every racing administrator around the nation bar Peter V’Landys, has no idea who the principal stakeholder in racing is. The Commissioner – whose salary is 100% funded by people he has […]
That’s JC with fist pump and the pork pie hat. I hope he’ll be doing it again at Caulfield on Saturday. No-one has more fun at the races that the Pineapple crew, the owners of the unbeaten 3YO filly Shesgotheboom, last start winner of the Aquis Jewels. They and their brilliant little girl are back […]
Let’s be honest, Lauren Jackson would never have come back to basketball at age 41 if Liz Cambage hadn’t let the Opals and her and our country down. But she did, in the most un-Australian of ways, and her departure – or more correctly, her ejection after the rejection – left the Opals coming into […]
Do you remember the terrible fire at Monique Burnett’s (pictured above with family) place last month, the one that killed 12 horses and burnt down a barn, without singing anything else? Well we are told that we are going to hear more about it. Certain people with official duties are asking questions about how many […]
Robert and John have been training together in very much an unofficial partnership in recent years as the stable has northern and southern bases, with Robert often spending time in Auckland. But the time has come to make the partnership official but with John also the country’s second leading driver it will be Jenna’s name […]
This is the finish of race 5 at Sandown yesterday. The judge put up the picture below and declared the inside horse the winner. I have watched the replay 20 times. There is no way on earth that the result of this race could possibly be what you see in the picture. The inside simply […]
Kyle Wilson-Taylor with his partner, jockey Angela Jones. There’s hope for us all yet. KWT is the Ben Thompson of the next grade. He punches so far above his weight that it’s not funny. My mum told me don’t worry son, it’s all about personality. The bugger lied to me. She should have just said […]
