Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See the race at the top run at Gloucester Park a fortnight ago? It’s what is called a Conditioned Race. The basic concept behind L5$ races is to give horses who may be struggling at their HWOE Level a chance to drop into a race where they might be able to earn again and establish […]
You need five horses turn out in a field in harness racing for a race to proceed on a harness race card. So WA trot trainer Greg Bond has the perfect solution to making sure that his two-year-old pacers get a run. He enters five of them in a race. Then when he sees how […]
Peter Profit reader and regular correspondent Gold Coast Greg – aka Greg Blanchard – talks to ABC North about the jockey shortage besetting country racing in QLD. Greg makes some very salient points. What he has to say is well worth a listen.
Stewards visited, unannounced, the stables of trainer W Yole on Monday 12th August,2024, in particular, to assess the well-being of SWIMINTHERIVER. On arrival SWIMINTHERIVER was inspected where no more than a rub mark was evident on the geldings off-side neck. Photographs were taken for ORI records. What was clear to Stewards that SWIMINTHERIVER had been […]
Shane Ciurleo used to be Ben Currie’s man. He would help choose the cheap horses that Currie filled his stable with. Ciurleo used to do the form form for the now banished trainer too. In between engagements with BM Currie he worked briefly as the bloodstock manager for AQUIS, but that relationship didn’t last long […]
I don’t know if she rides in races, but with these skills this Mongolian hoop should. Sign her up now Racing Queensland!
Peter Huxley was the boss of the NSW Rural Bank back in the 1960’s and 70’s. He was a pillar of society who served on the boards of prominent charities and leading arts organisations. Huxley had friends in high places, including in finance, politics and the police. Everyone trusted him. But they shouldn’t have, for […]
