Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
He may have been adjudged as being a little mad. But, perhaps, not that mad. TARGET is, of course, referring to Mr Deacon Chiu Te Ken, Chairman of Far East Holdings International Ltd and Far East Consortium International Ltd, both companies, being listed on The Stock Exchange of Hongkong Ltd. Mr Deacon Chiu Te Ken, […]
Meghan Markle (born Rachel Meghan Markle) is an American Model and Actress who appeared as Briefcase Model #24 during season two of the NBC Game Show Deal or No Deal. Meghan was born in Los Angeles, California on August 4, 1981 to an African-American mother and a Dutch and Irish descent father, who is a retired photography director. […]
The QRIC recently held it’s inaugural meeting of what the organisation considers to be the key stakeholders in the racing industry. These stakeholders were: QRIC Racing QLD Corporate bookies TAB (same as above, but with a monopoly license to run the tote) Associations representing owners, trainers, breeders, jockeys and drivers who are members of them […]
Each year the QRIC conducts a survey to gain an indicator as to how effective the Queensland community believes that they are in key areas. This year’s survey captured the views of 971 people about the racing industry. The key metric that the organisation is after so that all the QRIC bosses tick the box […]
Thank you very much to peter profit reader Rhonda for drawing my attention to the fact that we were wrong about Bien Hoa being the oldest pacer in Australia. That honour of course belongs to a Queenslander, which is no surprise because we’re the toughest State by far, and if you don’t believe it then […]
Over in the South Island of New Zealand there lives a pacer named Pocket Call. He is a slow pacer, a very slow one indeed, perhaps even the slowest in the world. Pocket Call has had sixty starts over the past 3 years. He hasn’t won or run a place in any of them, although […]
Bien Hoa is a pacer who was born all the way back in 2007, the year that Kevin Rudd became the Prime Minister the first time around. He made his debut at Bankstown in 2011, the year Dunaden won the Cup. He won that race and two more in a row. In his first 25 […]
No horse had ever broken 1.50.0 at Albion Park until last night. Blacksadance did, breaking his own track record by eight-tenths of a second to do it. He ran 1.49.2. By my reckoning it’s 3rd fastest time ever run on an Australian track outside of Menangle. Lochinvart Art went 1.48.6 at Melton, Ride High ran […]
It’s easy. Pre-race swab them There was almost half a million dollars in stakes on offer at the Cairns Amateurs meeting yesterday, including the Cup worth $150k and the Sprint worth $75 000. Three horses were pre-race swabbed across the whole day. Their odds in the betting were $10, $14, and $51. Down south at […]
