God Bless the Punter
They say should pray for the dead. I say the living are few, but the dead are many. Just look at some of the rides and drives we have seen lately. There is no need to pray on Derby Day. We’ve got it covered.
Gunstock is a Certainty
Don’t worry about Gunstock’s draw in the Derby. It won’t matter. This horse is a gun, just as its name suggests. Jockey Jye McNeil is a gun too. He won last year’s Cup don’t forget. He will win the Derby too. Just get on.
How Do They Beat Maximal in the Golden Eagle?
The Golden Eagle is, in my view, another Peter V’Landys mistake. Not the race. It is superb. The timing. This is too big and too good a race to be going head to head with Derby day. It’s like putting a Tyson fight at his best on v an Ali one when the Champ is […]
To Blink or Not to Blink, That is the Question
Um, in the words of Pauline Hanson PLEASE EXPLAIN Some form guides listed Choir Boy as wearing blinkers at Townsville on Saturday. Good on them, because he did. I think. The Stewards say the form guides were wrong and at the same time right. An announcement to that effect was semaphored to that effect to […]
Don’t Tell My Great-Grandad He’s Got No Guts
J.T. Buchanan is the great grandfather of the author. He was a bit mad when riled up. Most good and true blokes with ticker are when some clown does them wrong. I am nothing like him of course. Just a shy, meek and retiring type. For sure.
Just a Storyteller From Geebung
I was going back through some old photos tonight, and came across this. The woman in the picture is Sally Anne Atkinson, former Lord Mayor of Brisbane. That handsome bloke to her left is my Dad, her right hand man. He had an ASIC clearance. They reckon it had something to do with having to […]
Winners Win – Self Assured Did, Just – But Gee He Went Quick
Self-Assured is a super horse. He ran 53.2 seconds for his last half, and a sizzling 25.7 seconds for the final 400m. Sure they ran 1.5 seconds slower overall than the track record holder Eamon Maguire did in 2018, bit that horse like the runner-up here Classie Brigade did it up the sprint lane from […]
Wanna Buy the Brooklyn Bridge?
What you see at the top is a contract to pay the Royal National Association (RNA) almost $120 000 that Racing Queensland signed with the organisation just 23 days prior to the advertised start time of the Royal Queensland Show, aka the Ekka. At the time the contract was being signed the RNA were telling […]
Doesn’t Racing Queensland Sound Like a Happy Place to Work?
Last week we published an article in which we mentioned the extraordinarily high turnover of staff at Racing Queensland. Today a reader has sent us a link to the reviews about working at Racing Queensland published on the job site seek.com.au They might explain a few things. Here is what they say —————————————————- Soul destroying. […]
The Fastest Vet in the Whole Wide World
Queensland Racing Integrity Commission Race Meeting Stewards’ Report Albion Park Greyhounds Sunday, 24th October 2021 Track: Good Weather: Fine Stewards Panel: J Philp (Chair), D Broxham, C Sutton. Officials: R Geisel (Vet), J Hoffman (Judge), C Keithleigh (Starter), L Bobezsko (Samples), C Nilsen (Lure) Race 1 – BOOK YOUR XMAS PARTY @ BRISGREYS MDNPW 331m […]