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By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
The morning after Ciaron Maher and
Dave Eustace trained the quinella in the South Australian Derby – another notch on the belt of this extraordinary, youthful training duo – a wily rival trainer quipped: “look at them in the yard.”
“Sprinters, stayers, jumpers, they’re all the same,” the trainer said. “They just lope around, heads down. You look at a lot of trainers and their horses are yanking at the bridle, wasting energy. Ciaron’s horses are so relaxed. He gets inside their heads. The man is a freak.”
The ability of 37-year-old Maher to “get inside their heads” has been the magic ingredient of his training since the very start, way back when he had six boxes at his old man’s farm on the outskirts of
SA DERBY – THE MOUSE THAT ROARED
April 14, 2021 10:44 am
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
For the second year in a row, the South Australian Derby is shaping as THE Derby.
A year on from
Dalasan and
Johnny Get Angry’s fairytale
Victoria Derby win against so-so rivals –
Morphettville is again poised to host the strongest Derby of the season.
The only non-runner of interest will be the
Bob Peters-owned
West Australian Derby was his fourth win on the trot.
Peters said today that Western Empire would be spelled and set for the Perth summer carnival where the Kingston Town Classic would be a major aim.
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WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T MENTION THE “K” WORD
April 11, 2021 10:15 am
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
Note to self.
Jamie Kah today.
Find something else, other than Kah and the galloping global sisterhood. Stewart, you buffoon, you are obsessed with it.
You can’t even defend their right to privacy without it appearing to be saying the opposite. You’ve obviously lost it, so move on.
Focus on something else and whatever you do, don’t stay up and watch the
Grand National from Aintree, just in case
Rachael Blackmore wins the darn thing. Not that she could anyway, especially after that bad fall at Aintree on Friday.