Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
This is an ugly picture isn’t it? Harness racing in Queensland has lost nearly $40 million over the past six years. The losses are year on year, with no profit or break square periods in between. Thoroughbred and Greyhound racing are paying for these losses. Those two codes are subsiding harness racing prizemoney to the […]
The Albion Park Harness Racing Club made a profit of $373 937 in the last financial year. Or at least that is what the CEO of the club tells us in the just released Annual Report. It is not actually true. You know how you knock off half your pay in a mad Cox Plate […]
Most race tracks become slower when it rains heavily. Not the Geelong Paceway. It speeds up. I have no idea how, but numbers don’t lie. Due to persistent rain the mobile barrier had to be tested from all starting points prior to the first race, and Stewards ordered that mudguards be fitted to all carts […]
Have you ever heard of a winner at the trots paying $881? Until yesterday I hadn’t either. This is the winner of race 3 at Globe Derby. I reckon it would be a world record. If it wasn’t a misprint. Doh!
