Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
By award winning racing writer John Lingard letsgohorseracing.com.au (Reproduced with permission) PRESSURE is mounting on the new LNP Government to instruct Racing Queensland to deliver a ‘please explain’ to the Brisbane Racing Club over its continued refusal to immediately provide a copy of the minutes of the controversial AGM that was held in October. Several […]
The Brisbane Racing Club has reported a profit of $1.75 million for the 2023/24 financial year. This figure is correct, but it has been artificially boosted by $6.3 million of revenue being recorded which doesn’t in a material sense exist. The $6.3 million is the amount that the club borrowed from Racing QLD to build […]
BRC operating revenues of $73.9m reached a record. The revenues include not just racing and raceday hospitality income but include the property income from the Master Plan established in 2009, and the combined hospitality and gaming turnover from two licensed venues (Gallopers Sports Club and Souths Sports Club). These are the words of the Brisbane […]
For the jockeys to stop work during the trials today to carry on this meeting, it is just so exceptionally disappointing … I just felt it showed very little care or understanding of the rest of the industry, we (trainers) are annoyed and disappointed at the situation which could have been handled outside of these […]
Look at the size of this new tower compared to the other two, and look where its positioned. What do you think the problem might be? And do you think sightscreens are going to fix it? I’m sure going up so high seemed to its architects a good idea at the time. After all, the […]
Representatives from the Brisbane Racing Club attempted to argue that the construction was not causing the issue, which was rejected by the jockeys association. As all of the incidents have involved horses not from Brisbane, BRC officials raised the possibility of not allowing horses who have not raced at Eagle Farm to nominate in the […]
Last month on Stradbroke day the old John Power grandstand made the headlines when the Brisbane Racing Club publicly challenged the QLD Racing Minister to stump up the $80 million allegedly required required to renovate it. The Courier-Mail reported the Minister saying that “the government had not allocated specific money for the grandstand due to […]
How hard is it to read the number on a ball drawn out of a barrel? When it comes to QRIC Chief Steward Josh Adams, the answer is obviously too hard. What you see above and below are extracts from the official barrier draw for the Stradbroke Handicap conducted last night outdoors in the chill […]
Gee Eagle Farm is a funny track. It raced like a Soft 7 yesterday when it was only a Soft 5, with horses throwing up clods almost the size of bowling balls. Yet winners were running Good 3 type times. Mishani Lily is only a 2YO, but she won in just 3/4 of a second […]
The hot mail circulating around Eagle Farm yesterday was that the night meeting under lights at the Gold Coast in three week’s time is dead, buried and cremated. There is not a hope in hell that the track will be fit and ready to race they say, and they will be calling it off this […]
