Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
As we predicted earlier in the week, Bobo (trainer B0dine Bailey) has scratched his horse that was never ever going to run Seventies Hit from the Cairns meeting on Sunday. Bailey also scratched another one of his acceptors Smart Mission from a race at the meeting too, which is no surprise because best guesses are […]
RACING Queensland has issued a warning about “inaccurate or misleading” information in the lead up to Cairns Jockey Club elections, with ballot papers due by Monday for next Wednesday’s annual general meeting. By Nick Dalton, Cairns Local https://www.cairnslocalnews.com.au/warning-issued-about-jockey-club-elections-2026-10-09 Edge Hill businesswoman Rebecca Conlan is challenging long-time president Tom Hedley for the role. In a statement […]
The Matthew to whom TABCORP sent this email below on Wednesday is a compulsive gambler who enrolled himself in the Betstop total self-exclusion program just days after it was launched, in order to save his marriage, his family, his job and his home. So far it has worked. Not being able to simply jump on […]
We were told just prior to 8.00am yesterday that the big race meeting at Gayndah on Saturday had been called off due to to the state of the track (more on that in a moment). By midday there had still been no official notification to the public about the meeting being canned. Then at 12.32pm […]
Harness racing is a professional business, and in Western Australia is funded to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. Gloucester Park is the headquarters and showpiece of the sport, with races run there televised across Australia and New Zealand and around the world. The first thing viewers see is the mobile rolling up […]
Tasmanian reinsman Christian Salter has been disqualified for 18 months for what can only be described as being an absolute bloody idiot. Harness racing drivers in Australia are required to wear a HRA approved safety vest that is in good working order whilst in the cart and on the track. For nine months between Nov […]
Sam Thornley, the driver of the horse that galloped here after being crossed for the death by the John Dunn driven runner, told Stewards after the race that the break was due to his horse cross-firing. Methinks Thornley was covering up for Dunn so that he didn’t cop a suspension. It sure looked like Dunn […]
The contest for presidency of the Cairns Jockey Club has turned dirty, with a Tom Hedley aligned committee member this week sending out a highly defamatory message to club members slagging off Hedley’s opponent in the hotly contested election Rebecca Conlan, and making false and misleading claims that her election would likely result in RQ […]
WHITFIELD businesswoman Rebecca Conlan is riding high to become the first female president of the Cairns Jockey Club (CJC). By Nick Dalton, Cairns Local News cairnslocalnews.com.au The racing horse owner and fashionista has decades of experience in the industry and is challenging long-time president Tom Hedley for the role. Ballot papers to about 290 members […]
It is difficult to tell without the benefit of a head-in replay – which we don’t have because Racing QLD has censored it from its website – but it seems to me that one or more jockeys might have some big problems when the inquiry into the dual fall at Townsville on Sunday that put […]
