Nozi Rides Nozi
It’s not often that you see a jockey ride himself, but you will in race 3 at Doomben on Wednesday. Number 6 Nozomu is to be ridden by Nozi Tomizawa. Nozi’s full first name is Nozomu. There is an omen bet for you.
Safety First? – It Doesn’t Seem So
Do you recall the bad fall at Townsville in February in which Bubba Tilley and Graham Kliese hit the deck? The fall that caused Bubba to break his collarbone and Kliese his wrists? The one we blamed on the crazily large field sizes from the 1000m start? Bubba and Kliese Survive the Fall – But […]
Wondai
Archie You are wrong about the Stewards inspection at Wondai. I was there. Steward Simon Fletcher didn’t just drive the car around the track an hour before the first. He got out multiple times and poked a measuring stick into the track. Testing I don’t know what. He alighted from the car and proudly displayed […]
A Great Example Indeed
The bloke in the picture taken from an RQ piss up at the Derby meeting at Eagle Farm on Saturday afternoon is Shane Scriven, the former jockey who slaughtered Octagonal in the 1995 Victorian Derby. He weighed a lot less then. These days Scrivo is the apprentice training and mentoring boss at Racing QLD. One […]
It’s the Sire Not the Dam
At least that’s what I say about the kids breeding anyway. Me being a student of bloodlines and all. Maggie disagrees and maintains that it’s the other way around. But what would that fool know? They are both the spitting image of me. It’s obvious isn’t it?
Perhaps He Is In The Wrong Trade
The race caller at Tambo on Saturday declared Coronation Day on the inside the winner of race 1. It wasn’t. The outside won. Oh well, it was a close photo so you can forgive the man with the specs his mistake. Or you could if that was all if he had got wrong, but it […]
While the Weights Go Astray, the Handicappers Play – I Wonder Who Paid For the Drinks?
Isn’t this a wonderful look? Racing QLD Racing Operations Manager Ross Gove and the chief Handicapper Nathan Bourke in the members area on the piss with friends at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Meanwhile both of them missed the major handicapping error that occurred at Townsville the next day. Perhaps if they paid more attention to […]
Wondai Stewards Report
Race 1: PARKER’S PLUMBING & GASFIT OPEN Handicap (1100 METRES) ABLETT – Raced three-wide without cover throughout. Laid in under pressure in the home straight. HENRY’S BLADE – Blundered and dislodged its rider approaching the 300m. Upon veterinary examination it was revealed that the gelding had sustained a serious injury to its off-foreleg and was […]
How Does This Work?
Bailey Wheeler was excused for accepting a mount in race 1 at Eagle Farm yesterday that he couldn’t ride, the Stewards say for acceptable reasons. Five hours later Wheeler turns up at Toowoomba and has four rides. Toowoomba is only a 1 hour and 40 minute drive from Eagle Farm, and if you don’t have […]
The Truth Shall Set You Free (UPDATED)
Twenty minutes after our story about the major handicapping error in race 4 at Townsville today was published, QRIC issued the above tweet on its official X account acknowledging the mistake and advising punters who hadn’t already read it here that it had happened. A few minutes later the tweet disappeared, presumably having been removed […]