Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In 2019 the Charters Towers Jockey Club was granted $275 000 by Racing Queensland for a track upgrade, and the next year it received a further $175 000 to the irrigation, a total of $450 000. The track was supposed to be completed by mid-2021, however it wasn’t and the meeting scheduled to be run […]
A Letter From Sally, the Hard Working Secretary of the Towers Jockey Club First published 2 February 2o22 A couple of days ago we wrote an article in which we were critical of the Towers Jockey Club (TJC) about what we (seemingly wrongly) believed was their failure to fix the race track in the town […]
Congratulations to Brisbane gallops trainer Lindsay Gough and his partner Veronica on the birth this week of their second child, a beautiful baby boy. The little fella weighed in on the scale at 8 pound 8. Which very well-named punter called Gamble sent the tote broke at Toowoomba a couple of weekends ago when he […]
Acting QRIC Commissioner Malcolm Letts, a man without a clue It was like a tale of two cities when the Racing Queensland and QRIC bosses appeared at the Budget Estimates Committee to answer questions from the politicians this week. RQ CEO Jason Scott was totally across his portfolio, answering questions all the hard questions about […]
Who ever named the pacer Good Times Ahead must have been the optimistic horse owner in the world. Or at least it seemed that way coming into the last race at Gloucester Park last night. Good Times Ahead was now 11 years old, and hadn’t won a race since April 2020, the same month that […]
Earlier in the week we postulated that trainer Chantal would scratch the weakest hope out of her four runners in tonight’s Queensland Derby Always Smokin, so that one of her strongest chances, the reserve Duke Of Scotland, could secure a starting place in the field from his plum 2 draw. In the end she didn’t […]
A day hardly ever seems to go by in Queensland racing without a stuff-up somewhere in Queensland. A week ago it was Eagle Farm calling off a meeting mid-stream due to known problems flaring up again, last night it was the Redcliffe trots turn. The meeting there had to be abandoned after just three races […]
So it’s Friday and acceptances are in, and WTF? Fabs Cowboy has been accepted to run his last race both Charters Towers and in Longreach, and has jockeys declared aboard in each. If you had gone out of your way to promote Fabs farewell like the Longreach race club have and someone had done this […]
Racing Victoria is the regulator that licenses bookmakers in the State, and the body responsible for setting and enforcing compliance with the Bookmakers Telephone Betting Rules. That creates a bit of an issue for RV, because it now knows that David McLauchlan has broken the rules, and a simple check of their own stored betting […]
Racing Victoria changed the Bookmakers Telephone Betting Rules on the 14th of September 2023, and from that date on the new rules apply. The changes made by Racing Victoria removed the requirement for a bookmaker to get a signed Client Authorisation Form from every punter that they took bets from over the phone. “Phew” you […]
