Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
View from the starting stalls over the straight six at the new Hollywood at the Creek underwater race track Dear Sir We were interested to read your article advocating for the construction of an enclosed air-conditioned horse racing stadium to protect galloper’s welfare when racing in the QLD summer heat, and congratulate you on your […]
It was 28 degrees on Sunday afternoon at the Sunshine Coast. That wasn’t hot enough for the QRIC’s extreme heat policy to be employed. Which was a shame, because two runners in the first two race on the program were diagnosed with heat stress after they had raced, He’s Got Grunt in the first and […]
News has filtered back to us that breeders of the Eureka runners are yet to be paid their breeder bonus of $10 000 each, or the breeder of the winner their bonus of $30 000. The Eureka was run almost 3 months ago to the day, and HRNSW are not short of cash to pay […]
Do the Stewards in Far North QLD not know the rules, or is it simply that they choose not to apply them? Trainer Alwyn Bailey failed to transport his runner in race 4 Bring Me To Life to the track. Bailey told the Stewards that he left the horse at home because in his opinion […]
There is outrage among NZ harness racing licensees over the treatment of junior driver Emily Johnson, who had been threatened with a dangerous driving charge by Stewards in relation to an incident that occurred during a race at Addington last Friday week. Johnson was driving the long odds-on favorite He Ain’t Fakin, the Aussie pacer […]
The race caller at Bunbury this afternoon – I dunno his name, so I will call him Wheelbarrow – must have divorce on the mind or something, or perhaps he is just a glass half empty time who sees gloom in a rainbow. Why else would he have called the winner of the first race […]
In Albion Park Chairman Greg Mitchell’s euphoria about the Creek being (in our view temporarily) saved, he seems to have 0verlooked a rather important thing. The racing reform plan to run thoroughbred race meeting four nights a week, every week, in direct competition with the trots. Wednesday to Saturday night is the plan. Gold Coast, […]
Apprentice Bailie Baker has had an absolute shit of a couple of months. First her ever-loving and much loved Dad Glen got diagnosed with the dreaded spanish dancer and died. The weekend after Dad crossed the bar she had a race fall and almost did too. Then to top it all off she got stripped […]
Shane Graham is a leopard. He never changes his spots. Rock Supreme was backed from $21 into $10 in race 1 at Albion Park. It started from the inside row in 8, with Bronski Zulu drawn in front of it in 1. Graham drove the Zulu, but he didn’t drive it to win. He drove […]
The QLD Govt is going to launch a joint industry fund to secure better returns for clubs. Queensland race clubs will be invited to invest in the fund, set to be managed by an Independent Racing Infrastructure Fund Board. Clubs would be able to track their investment in real-time and have access to their funds […]
