Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Bart Sinclair rocked up to Doomben yesterday, as he does, and went to go up the escalator to the Chairman’s room. The bloke in the uniform in the picture is a security guard, employed or contracted by the BRC. They obviously didn’t train him pr0perly. Or maybe they did. Bart didn’t have his top shelf […]
Sinclair, in covering some 25 Melbourne Cups, derived particular satisfaction from the victories by the likes of Michael Rodd, “Mick” Dittman, Chris Munce and Glen Boss, a group that cut their teeth in Brisbane. He has also attended a Kentucky Derby, the inaugural World Cup in Dubai and, as a moderator, Asian Racing Conferences in […]
The Brisbane Racing Club has reported a $4.7 million profit for the 2025/26 financial year, which is wonderful. But are things all as rosy as they seem? The money is hard to follow in the annual report for an outsider, but here are some of key metrics of concern. Last year the BRC had $15.9 […]
How does a Brisbane based race club spend $158 778 in a year on travel and accommodation expenses for just eight directors? Where do the octet go? Why? Where do they stay? You can bet your life that it’s not at the YMCA. I get that the directors are honorary, meaning unpaid, and that they […]
The picture you see in an excerpt from yesterday’s daily law list for the Beenleigh Magistrates Court. See the name in the box? Perran Sonnex? It’s a quite unusual and rather distinctive name isn’t it? A bloke named Perran Sonnex is the Executive General Manager of Licensed Community Venues at the Brisbane Racing Club (BRC), […]
The bloke in the picture taken from an RQ piss up at the Derby meeting at Eagle Farm on Saturday afternoon is Shane Scriven, the former jockey who slaughtered Octagonal in the 1995 Victorian Derby. He weighed a lot less then. These days Scrivo is the apprentice training and mentoring boss at Racing QLD. One […]
We have been hearing for almost half a year now about the new $100 million members grandstand that the Brisbane Racing Club is going to build at Eagle Farm to replace the current decaying John Power stand. The State Government has even thrown $25 mil into the hat toward the $100 million cause. So why […]
The Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) were falling over themselves to get money from the State Government to build a new grandstand at Eagle Farm for their handful of members. Ministers and Premiers were lobbied, a PR campaign was run painting the new members stand as a life or death priority, and the public was all […]
For legal reasons we are prevent from reporting on the controversy surrounding the Brisbane Racing Club’s property dealings, as reported by the ABC. So we can’t, and won’t, be writing about it. Sorry about that.
Have the Brisbane Racing Club got their distance markers in the right place? I suspect not, but if they have then I suggest they check the calibration of the clock, because the incredibly fast times run all day at Eagle Farm just cannot be correct, Can they? According to the BRC website the 1200m track […]
