Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You’d say it was great winning the Ouyen Cup wouldn’t you, because it used to be a really good country cup race that attracted good class country pacers who were top of their league in regional trot racing. The race was always the best on the card, and befitting of the highest prizemoney. That was […]
The people in charge of running the QLD racing industry must be either masochists who enjoy feeling pain, or sadists who enjoy inflicting it on others, for what other reason could there be for some of the gallops programming decisions over the weekend? Do these people even know the geography of QLD, or understand the […]
Angus Garrard is driving the horse 3-back the outside in the red white and blue. Matt Elkins is on the horse coming around Garrard three-wide. Garrard comes out under Elkins illegally and cannons into him, sending him sliding sideways from the impact and causing his horse to break into a wild gallop and lose all […]
Archie I was having a night at Melton last night with friends. Sitting here with our 9 or so kids between us, and at the next table over out the front, there was junior driver with a dozen empty cans in front of him, talking to another participant, not sure who but had a B […]
Our political correspondent on the ground in the federal electorate of Farrar, Bookie Bob – real name Daniel T. Crimmins told you all a month ago that One Nation were past the post certainties to win the by-election to replace his political hero Sussan Ley as the local member. At the time the corporates and […]
The Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) were falling over themselves to get money from the State Government to build a new grandstand at Eagle Farm for their handful of members. Ministers and Premiers were lobbied, a PR campaign was run painting the new members stand as a life or death priority, and the public was all […]
When we told you the story last week about apprentice Jace McMurray getting done with a cheater vest (a modified safety vest, with the back padding removed to reduce the weight), and then blowing up at the Stewards for pulling him up on that and his later attempt to weigh out without silks, we mentioned […]
The Brisbane Broncos are injury ravaged and in worlds of pain. They have lost star prop Payne Haas, the best front row forward in the game until at least round 14, by which time it might be too late. Halfback and playmaker Adam Reynolds is out indefinitely after copping a bad head knock, and handily […]
Yesterday trainer/jockey Cheryl Rogers – whose surname does not contain a D, regardless of what the official Stewards report says – applied to ride the horse that she owns and trains Prince Carlos a half kilo overweight, claiming that the Prince is better suited to senior riders due to its racing manners. With only apprentices […]
I’ve been inside the one time heritage listed house in the background of the picture, before someone burned it down. They never did find the torch man, but the immolation of the house sure was handy for the Brisbane Racing Club that run the racecourse and employed Bill Shuck, because it allowed the club to […]
