Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
These are the results of the APG Mixed Online Sale held last week. Every one of the 14 trotters and pacers in the catalogue are being sold by APG as vendor. Each of them – all 14 – was purchased by the APG as agent. WTF? Agents for whom? Were these really genuine sales, or […]
Poly tracks are poly tracks. They don’t get rated on the usual scale of good to heavy, because they have no soil or turf. What they are is what they are, which is sand, wax and fibre. This is what the manufacturer Michael Collins says about them: Polytrack is scientifically proven to minimise the risk […]
This one’s from a reader who has trained more than a few Group 1 winners in his time. I have a feeling he’s talking about the TAB ….
We are all formed as adults from our experiences as a child, but even more – consciously or unconsciously – from our deeper family experiences long, long before. For each of us the marker poles and the touchstones are different. One of mine is being a victim of child abuse – rape really, even though […]
Hawtrey last hit the headlines in 1984, when a rent boy set his house on fire. Newspaper photographs showed him naked except for a blanket without his toupee. Four years later he died as a result of peripheral vascular disease. https://laurenceraw.tripod.com/id481.html He was sacked from the Carry Ons in 1972 after turning up drunk for […]
It is not often that I fully agree with Jason Bonnington. I do here. ————————————————- From a purely cultural perspective, the chasm between regional and urban Australia has never been greater. And based on Saturday night’s metropolitan trotting results, this chasm may extend to standardbreds as well. Last weekend, Shepparton hosted top-class racing action to […]
Anacta is the lobbyist firm run by lifetime Labor hacks that was was banned earlier this week from speaking to Govt Ministers in an official capacity or dealing with the Government. In the past 12 months one or the other of Anacta’s chiefs (or both) met with Government officials 43 times, and then – lo […]
Simply Sam is the pacer at the centre of the current controversy about Maurice McKendry’s drive on him when the Magic Man got charged and convicted of not giving giving him every reasonable and permissible chance to win a race at Alexandra Park a few weeks back. On that occasion McKendry took his back to […]
A number of underworld figures and bikies are reportedly leaving Sydney because of the current gangland war and increasing police pressure. The shooting of Comanchero sergeant at arms Tarek Zahed and his brother Omar signalled to many it was time to leave town. “It is out of control,” said one senior underworld figure. “The people being hit […]
