Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In a most unusual, and somewhat questionable development, members of the Cairns Jockey Club who were physically present at last night’s AGM have voted by a show of hands to defer the final count of the ballot for the positions of President and committee members until the 25th of November 2026, a delay of over […]
Presidential candidate Rebecca Conlan, competing in the Masters Games, with her mum Barb, who lived in the street behind my parents in Aspley before moving up north to the promised land The election for President of the Cairns Jockey Club will be decided today. It’s Tom Hedley v Rebecca Conlam. The old vs the new. […]
As we predicted earlier in the week, Bobo (trainer B0dine Bailey) has scratched his horse that was never ever going to run Seventies Hit from the Cairns meeting on Sunday. Bailey also scratched another one of his acceptors Smart Mission from a race at the meeting too, which is no surprise because best guesses are […]
RACING Queensland has issued a warning about “inaccurate or misleading” information in the lead up to Cairns Jockey Club elections, with ballot papers due by Monday for next Wednesday’s annual general meeting. By Nick Dalton, Cairns Local https://www.cairnslocalnews.com.au/warning-issued-about-jockey-club-elections-2026-10-09 Edge Hill businesswoman Rebecca Conlan is challenging long-time president Tom Hedley for the role. In a statement […]
The contest for presidency of the Cairns Jockey Club has turned dirty, with a Tom Hedley aligned committee member this week sending out a highly defamatory message to club members slagging off Hedley’s opponent in the hotly contested election Rebecca Conlan, and making false and misleading claims that her election would likely result in RQ […]
WHITFIELD businesswoman Rebecca Conlan is riding high to become the first female president of the Cairns Jockey Club (CJC). By Nick Dalton, Cairns Local News cairnslocalnews.com.au The racing horse owner and fashionista has decades of experience in the industry and is challenging long-time president Tom Hedley for the role. Ballot papers to about 290 members […]
The big news out of the north is that long time Cairns Jockey Club powerbroker Tom Hedley (above) is facing a challenge in the coming weeks for his position as club president, and it’s a formidable one too. Prominent local business woman and high achieving club committee member Rebecca Conlan (pictured at top) has thrown […]
Jockey Ash Butler can consider himself the luckiest rider at Cannon Park on Cairns Cup day. Butler rode the winner Colleano, which swept past them down the outside at the 100m mark and looked set to run away for a commanding victory. Until believing that his mount was home to the world, Butler sat up […]
August 28, 2026 The Northern Queensland Winter Racing Carnival will go to another level in 2027, with a boost in prizemoney to see almost $3.5 million go up for grabs over two thrilling months of racing. All four major Cups races held across Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville and Cairns will now be run for $200,000 each, an […]
There is a huge crowd at Cannon Park up here in Cairns today for the Amateurs today, and its great to see given the travails that the meeting has encountered in recent years. Sadly as so often happens on rain affected surfaces at the track, we have once again this year seen in the first […]
