Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
The one time smart provincial NSW pacer Flare Up won 9 of its first 16 starts under the care of trainer Darren Elder when driven by his now disqualified drug cheating son Brad, the most recent of them 17 months ago in September 2o22. Ever since B. Elder threw three positive swabs to Levamisole late […]
There is no rule or law against stood down trot club CEO’s punting up large on Betfair, or laying up large, whichever the case may be. But it does make you wonder about what they did when on duty, or might do if they return. The bloke at the bar in the black and white […]
‘Bookie’ Ben Krahe was given an inside run to become the sole bookmaker at Albion Park through his friendship with and close association to certain controversial figures associated with the club, some of whom were seen together cavorting at the recent Inter Dominion series. I won’t name these controversial figures due to the risk of […]
