********************* We couldn’t help overhearing a very senior Biggie Small executive with the HKJC, and someone who really should know better, dismiss jockey Mark Zahra’s accomplishments by telling his dinner guest, how “he couldn’t ride a winner when in Hong Kong”.  This rather telling remark was a couple of weeks before the double Melbourne Cup winning rider rode four consecutive winners at Flemington on Saturday’s Victoria Derby Day including two winners for the new God

Thanks for the happiness you’re bringing to those who might have disappeared into themselves, Rob. My mom did when she lost her battle with Alzheimer’s and I didn’t know what to do, so I blocked it out and let Trina deal with it. I was scared, whereas Trina being Trina had that kindness and inner resolve to promise my parents that they would leave here with dignity. And they did. For bringing some joy to the Hyland family on Tuesday afternoon and especially, father and grandf

SCORING GOALS, PETE GOES GLOBAL… Whatever anyone might think of him, it’s darn difficult to ignore Peter V’Landys, especially because he appears to be travelling under the radar and as they say in Media Speak, is expanding his reach. There are those well into the Australian sporting arena who no longer see him as the “racing supremo” of Racing New South Wales. Yes, he’s still guiding the Everest juggernaut, but he’s also somewhat like the Scarlet Pimpernel. Was he actually on