The Alligator Bites – The Old Bloke is Going to Win the Straddie (First Published 28 May 2022)
Have you ever seen a bigger run in your life than Alligator Blood yesterday in the BRC Sprint? The Alligator was stuck four-wide the trip from the wide barrier, was never travelling, should by rights have been gone on the turn, and yet somehow he still managed to pick up and sweep down the outside […]
Archie v Bon Bon Mark 2 – The White Sports Coat and Red Bow Tie Wearer Gets $20 Start
Well we’ve clearly got Jason Bonnington rattled after we towelled him up on his home turf last week, for everyone’s favourite white sports coat and red bow tie wearers bets are all over the show, he’s claiming the win price on place bets, and there are Hail Mary exotics for Africa. You can find Bon […]
Oh Man, What Was That Mr McCarthy?
The 6th at Albion Park last night had 8 starters, but it was always going to be a 2 horse race. Cover Girl was drawn the one and driven by Luke McCarthy. It blew from $1.60 out to $2.10. Dangerzone was out in the 5, and steered by Brendan Barnes. It firmed from $2.30 into […]
Max’s Memories v Reality
Max Presnell is like many old men who have seen plenty of it starting to live in the past. It shows in his article today bemoaning the lack of quality in the past 25 Straddies, and his yearning for imagines days of yore when the top liners were just so much better than they are […]
Cran and the Technicolour Dream Shirt
I dunno where NZ trot trainer Cran Dalgety gets his shirts from, but its one place I would certainly rather avoid. The question is how can one man own so many weird and whacky shirts? How does he fit them all in cupboard? I tell you what, Cran must be a really good bloke, a […]
Six Years to Deal With a Simple Positive Swab – Only in QLD
How can it possibly take six years to conduct and conclude what should have been a relatively simple Stewards Inquiry into a horse throwing a positive swab? I don’t care how many excuses about delays and unavailable witnesses that the stipes throw up, that is just duck shoving. No inquiry should take this long, and […]
This is Bad, Real Bad
At the 400m mark in the fast class race at Addington on Thursday night the good class pacer Dance Time snapped his back left leg. You can see it in the picture at the top and in the video below. It was obviously hugely painful, and you can’t walk on broken legs, or shouldn’t anyway […]
Give Us a Break
Take a look at this interference the horse on the outside causes. It wins by about a length and a bit. The Stewards dismissed the protest lodged by the rider of the second horse, on the grounds that the winning margin was bigger than the interference caused. How the hell would they know? The 2nd […]
Would You Mess With a Black Eyed Killer Who Thinks Shooting Taliban is Fun?
Prince Willie ignored Harry’s invitation for his family to attend his daughter’s first birthday party because he was too busy going to Wales to wave at strangers. His dad Charlie wouldn’t let Harry’s baby get a photo taken with his grandma, the Queen. Harry might sell the photo to Netflix the royals reckoned. They gave […]