Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You’d never know it by looking at him now, but Drew Crouch was once a professional athlete who was contracted to the Brisbane Bullets basketball team Like another elite Central Queensland athlete John Dyer – who once beat Greg Norman to win a QLD Open, but gave a professional career as a golfer away to […]
Rough Habit might have been able to carry more than 70kg to win a race under the snow capped Mt Taranaki in New Zealand more than 30 years ago, but as hard as he tried the giant horse Namazu was unable to repeat the feat with 70.5kg yesterday in the Beef Capital of OZ. Namazu […]
Aden Conlan (pictured above with his mum Rebecca, who is an active committee member of the Cairns Jockey Club) A couple of boys from well-known Far North QLD bookmaking families celebrated their big nights out together on the town in Cairns last night, and by all reports it was a big one. I hope so, […]
On his little listened to 4TAB radio show Press Room on Monday, the Brisbane no 2 race caller David Fowler dropped a suggestion that the time-honored, super popular Cairns Amateur race meeting may be at risk of not going ahead this year. No doubt the Bantam was basing his suspicions on the fact that the […]
Can anyone tell me how the hell that jockey Scott Sheargold (pictured above behind the barriers yesterday at Cairns) went from riding a horse in race 1 at Cairns yesterday to working as barrier attendant for the rest of the day? Wouldn’t there be an ever so slight conflict of interest there? I am not […]
Well we were spot on with our mail regarding horses in the care of prominent Cairns trainers having returned positive swabs to arsenic, and with our tip that they were going to escape penalty on a contamination defense. So far Alwyn Bailey and the training combo of Trevor and Peter Rowe have been done, with […]
Archie, I know you are on top of this one. But I am perplexed somewhat…. How does it take nearly 12 months to hear these inquiries? Who conducted the soil testing? Was it tested by an accredited lab and an analysis report available? Were any other horses trained by these trainers and stabled at the […]
After a series of cancelled meetings due to problems with the drainage from the course proper, the Cairns Jockey Club has finally advertised for a new full-time track manager. It’s about time. The bloke that they need is Sean Bridges, the former Eagle Farm track manager who got crucified over the failure of the course […]
As you can see above, the QRIC Stewards in charge of the Cairns Cup meeting yesterday were convinced that the last race on the card was the Lightning. It wasn’t. The Lightning was a 950m open class dash run as race 8. Race 10 was a Class 6 run over 1250m. They couldn’t even get […]
What on earth was jockey Adrian Layt thinking aboard Flash Aah in the Cairns Cup yesterday? He wasn’t is my guess, he just did what very average jockeys do, which is not think at all. Up until about the 500 metre mark Layt had ridden Flash perfectly. He’d planted himself on the hot fave Namazu’s […]
