Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I met this Irish bloke named Tony at the yacht club the other night. (Aye aye skipper, and thanks for good live music, and the $5 spirits). Tony was the hubby of one of Maggie’s friends, and I introduced myself by telling him the story of how I’d just snapped the shower head rod thing […]
And so it ended. Not with a bang, but a gentle collapse, in the way burning campfire logs eventually fall in on themselves before being reduced to ash. Matthew Condon, award winning writer, reporting on the last day of The Teacher’s Pet Trial So it went, until close to midday when David, after four days […]
Karl Zechner is a 34-year-old Zimbabwe born South African jockey who rode about 600 winners at home. He has ridden almost a 100 in Australia since moving here two years ago. Zechner outrode his claim more than a decade ago. Someone obviously forgot to tell Racing QLD and the TAB. They had him as a […]
This is the Steward’s replay of race 9 at Eagle Farm yesterday, the race in which the rider of the winner Adin Thomspson was charged with improper riding. Thompson is about 5th or 6th near the fence, in the yellow and blue colours. I think I must be going blind. No matter how hard I […]
This is the official Steward’s Summary for yesterday’s Mt Isa meeting. There are a couple of problems with it. One is that geldings that bleed from both nostrils aren’t allowed to race for 3 months, and Ela Beach started yesterday. The other is that she is not a gelding at all, she’s a mare. Bloody […]
You are nothing but sucks, giant sucks. You know, like the sucks that get on the bottom of the shark’s belly? Well you are on the belly of a shark’s belly here, sucking up to them. It’s disgraceful. RAY HADLEY, 11 JULY 2022 Sorry about the poor quality of the sound. This is the bloke I […]
The Stewards charging apprentice Adin Thompson with improper riding on Saturday after his maiden Group winner in the Pam O’Neill Stakes attracted everyone’s attention, but most folk missed the adjourned inquiry into Jaden Lloyd’s beaten ride in the tenth race, the one right after. It is the one we should all be really looking at. […]
Looks sure do run down the female side in the Exelby family don’t they? The Australian newspaper is having great fun today making fun on Channel 10 Breakfast presenter Natasha Exelby having scored the lowest viewer ratings in TV history twice in a week, after she recorded audiences for her show of just 44 viewers […]
Okay, you’ve heard what Jimmy Jacques had to say, and what he says the Chief Steward said. Everything is sweet. Bien Hoa jumped in fright at his own spit and knocked over one of the top 3 in the market. It was all sweet. Graham Loch said so. And they expect us to believe this […]
In 50 years of harness racing I have never seen a more blatant race fix that the one pulled in the first at Globe Derby. It was absolutely disgraceful, and you know what? Almost everyone was in on it. At the very minimum four drivers were – Michael A Smith, Dani Hill, Wayne Hill, and […]
