Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If you read this year’s Brisbane Racing Club Annual Report you’d think that all things were shiny and rosy. I guess they are, if you consider these things all shimmering and white: $8.4 million increase in expenses $1.9 million decrease in net assets $7.7 million increase in net liabilities $1 million less in cash $7.7 […]
How do I tell whether someone is transgender? You are entitled to take each person on face value based on their clothes, their name and how they introduce or present themselves. The key words are ‘bona fide’. People who are transitioning will have adopted a complete identity and lifestyle, or have a genuine plan to […]
Archie I have just been told from good source that the Brisbane Racing Club has determined that as of next month a number of small trainers at Deagon’s leases won’t be renewed, These trainers were told in the past get out of the stables in the side streets of Deagon and move into the stables […]
Club officials used to act as Stewards way back in the dark ages when Australian racing began. It was a just a squatters sport back then, and the stipes were volunteers who gave their time to officiate at the races held on their tracks. But there was no official betting then, so it wasn’t that […]
The Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) is run by a CEO, who is male. All four of the club’s Key Management personnel are men. We are unable for legal reasons to comment in any detail on the gender structure of the board, but a simple Google search will tell you all that you need to know, […]
A leading Queensland jockey who was injured in a fall at Doomben three years ago is suing for more than $2.4m, claiming actions of racecourse staff caused his horse to take fright. Champion jockey Jim Byrne, 51, fractured his right knee when he fell from two-year-old racehorse Kavak, during race seven at Doomben Racecourse on […]
