Results for tag: Racing
Posted by:
smokin
on Feb 1, 2011 at 12:32:02 AM
Statistically it shouldn't happen.
It all started with a phone call. A mate had looked through a tried horse sale, seen a lot that appealed and being 2 minutes away from the saleyards I took a trip to have a look for him. Going through the complex, I bumped into a vet I knew, asked him to come have a look and armed with an opinion and a look at the lot, got on the phone for the sobering truth.
There is no defying, the horse was fat, so fat I thought he was pregnant, which is impossible. But there was issues with his legs, not back, but front. He needed to be treated with kid gloves, get the weight off him without putting him under too much stress and I suggested finding out who had him before. He was 3 rising 4, no exposed form, this could be Takeover Target Mk II or an ambassador...
Posted by:
smokin
on Dec 8, 2010 at 01:14:26 AM
I wrote a couple of weeks ago regarding my opinion of prize money, the hopeless quest to attempt to raise city to $100,000 per race on non-feature race days and the abandonment of supporting the grass roots of racing and the lack of understanding that racing will only prosper if you increase the health of the front line of racing, that being the country and provincial racing circuits.
A simple look through the recently published Australian Racing Board’s new Racing Fact book would indicate that to aspire to raising prize money to compete with jurisdictions that operate with the same prize money levels is showing the door to a big industrial cellar, without doing anything to enhance and increase the revenue stream that is driving your levels. Whilst the courts can currently decide ...