Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
There are few good stories out the Cairns Amateurs over the weekend. One is that thanks to the big sunnies and hat and the Covid mask no-one spotted me at the track yesterday, even when I was standing there talking to them. It was fun. Race caller David Fowler wasn’t having any fun at the […]
Where are these (containers of cash) heading? Isle of Man, Dublin, maybe Malta? This money should be going back into Australian industries, and Australian communities. Fair Play Coalition, aka Tabcorp and the Poker Machine Industry We’ve all seen the ads that Tabcorp are running against the corporate bookies through their bowler, a front they have […]
