Date Archives

February 2021

THE CLOCK DOESN’T LIE

If split and sectional times are meaningful, the Racing and Wagering Western Australia stewards inquiry into Patrick Carbery’s tactics aboard Testing Love in the Schweppes-Ascot 1,000 Guineas should be abandoned in a matter of minutes.

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ASTRONOMICAL AUSSIE UPSET OUT OF THIS WORLD

Lunar Fox landed the biggest-ever upset in Australian Group One thoroughbred racing when he won the Kennedy Australian Guineas, even rocketing past the astronomical odds William Hill quoted in 1964 on a lunar landing during the 1960s.

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CENTENARIAN WHO THREW DOWN THE GAUNTLET TO HER PEERS

This week marks the seventh anniversary of the death of the most remarkable athlete I have met during my quarter of a century working in elite sport, a vegetable-dodging centenarian who threw down the gauntlet to her peers.

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BLACKERS KEEP CUP SUCCESS RUNNING IN THE FAMILY

For the fifth time, Blacker is the surname the Launceston Cup engraver will inscribe on the Group Three race’s trophy. But for the first time, George is not the forename because John scored the biggest win since tragedy struck his family.

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