Big Ups to Krysten
Young QLD jockey Krysten Swaffer ticked up her 100th career win at Innisfail on the weekend. It is a great achievement. Good on her. May there be many, many more.
The RQ Race Programmers Need a Good Kick in the Arse
The race meeting at Innisfail in QLD went ahead today, with 5 races and just 21 starters, an average of 4.2 runners per race. $50 000 of racing industry money was spent on prizemoney for the meeting, plus who knows how much in expenses for Stewards, race day staff, broadcast fees, and the like. None […]
The Ride of the Century
Craig Williams ride on Sir Delius in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on Saturday was sheer genius. The work 0f a master, who had d0ne his form and planned what he was going to do a long time before he did it. Williams knew that he was on a top class middle distance stayer, […]
1+1 Doesn’t Equal a Pineapple – We Are All Being Taken For Fools
This is the Callaghan Park track report that the Rockhampton Jockey Club posted to RISA at 7.45am on Sunday morning. Zero irrigation they say. How does that align with the previous day’s Stewards Report that said the sprinklers had intermittently come on and off between 6.30am and 10.30am the day before? It doesn’t obviuosly. If […]
A Champion From Head To Toe – A Looker Too
Isn’t Leap To Fame an absolutely tremendous looking horse. As pretty as a picture. Just like Kay, Brittany and Trista. Sorry Kev and Grant. No disrespect. But I’m not sure about you. Stick to owning and training world champions chaps. Leave the looks to Larry and the girls. Photos by Angelique Bridson, another champion.
Shoot That Poison Arrow Through Our Hearts
What is this in the picture? Chemicals dumped out the back of Callaghan Park race track, Rockhampton. Photo taken on Wednesday. What is in the chemical container? Who knows, because the labels had been stripped off. Where did the stuff come from? A committee member’s business some say. We don’t know whether it is true. […]
Spin It as Hard as You Like Rocky – We Are Not Stupid, Even if You Are
With the pressure on the fairytales start coming thick and fast. Instead of accepting the blame for their own mistake the Rockhampton Jockey Club just keeps spinning and spinning. Now we are expected to play the role of wide eyed idiots and believe the club’s story that this supposed broken valve on the sprinklers just […]
Are We Seriously Expected to Believe This Palaver?
The QRIC Stewards were told that when the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s course curator did his track inspection at 6.30am on Saturday there was no problem with the track and it was right to race. When the Stewards came and did their own track inspection at 10.30am, we are told, there had been a malfunction with […]
Don’t Believe a Word the Rockhampton Jockey Club Tells You – The People in Charge Should All Be Sacked
What you see above is a picture taken at last night’s Calcutta at Callaghan Park. See where the arrow is pointing? That’s the exact spot that became waterlogged overnight and caused the meeting to be cancelled. Here it is again. Racing QLD sent out the text below to participants this morning. It says zero irrigation […]
Kevin Seymour Doesn’t Take Larry to NZ For the Money – He Does it to Honor the Sport – God Bless Him Too
How does any pacer sit parked in the breeze for 2200 meters against the best of the best on both sides of the ditch, and win a million dollar race by 7 lengths? It is just unheard of. Or used to be. Leap To Fame is rewriting history. There can be no doubt at all […]