Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I am n0t sure what this idiot threw on the track as the runner came into the straight for the first time in race 2 at Menangle last night, but whatever it was it had the potential to create danger by spooking the horses. Whoever the fool was needs to give themselves an uppercut. They […]
The word from across the ditch is that as we predicted some weeks back, the current Albion Park chairman Brad Steele has been offered and has accepted the CEO role at Harness Racing New Zealand. An official announcement will be made next week is the mail. Steele’s brother Scott won’t be able to travel over […]
Pete McMullen claims that he felt Turn It Up only challenged his horse Aardie’s Flash for a short distance after the first turn. McMullen was correct, it did. But what about the heated challenge for the first 200 or 300m when Noddy took on the fastest beginner in QLD and held him out, running a […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC04052402.mp4 My memory may be failing me as I age so I might be wrong, but I can’t remember ever seeing a horse run a lead time as fast as the 3.1 seconds that Wisper A Secret ran when he steamed across from out deep at the start to lead in race 1 at Albion […]
The whispers out of Christchurch are that the current chairman of the Albion Park trots Brad Steele is a lay down misere to win appointment to the crucial role as CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand, replacing Gary Woodham who recently resigned due to ill-health. Brad Steele is little known among Kiwi industry participants, but […]
Angus Garrard is an experienced driver who has steered home more than 750 winners. He drove straight over a marker peg in the first race and sent it flying. Garrard didn’t even get a reprimand. Layne Dwyer is an inexperienced 17yo kid who was having his first drive at a metro meeting last night. He […]
I’ve been going to Albion Park since I was not yet born baby in her belly. I was there on my uncle Bert’s shoulders at the sand gallops track when I was little kid, and I was there on my dad’s shoulders at the trots. My brother and sister and I used to race down […]
Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre* *NOTE – Review Chair Graham Quirk was not involved in reviewing the Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre due to his role on the Board of Racing Queensland, which owns the Albion Park Raceway site. The new Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre venue is proposed to be a 12-court, high performance, community and para-sport […]
The findings of the review of the planned Olympic venues commissioned by the State Government are in, and the proposed redevelopment of Albion Park is out. The review has called for the planned venue on the trot site to be relocated to another site in the northern suburbs of Brisbane – probably Marchant Park or […]
Stood down Albion Park CEO Scott Steele has been sighted recently frequenting the Gold Coast race track on Saturdays. The word is that after falling out with his Brisbane based clique of friends and supporters over issues relating to a girlfriend of one of them, and having been banned from a number of his local […]
