Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tom Hedley has a massive stable of horses, almost all of them 2nd hand rejects from the south of varying qualities. It costs a fortune to feed them. To pay for it Uncle Tom has to pull off the occasional plunge on big race days when he can get a decent bet on. That’s usually […]
The handicaps for the Cairns Cup were released yesterday, and baby it’s game on, Namazu has been given 61kg, and he deserves it too, for this Ricky Vale trained horse that we call Big Zu after Kostya and Tim is brilliant, far better than the city slickers in the south could ever imagine. This is […]
Flash … Aah! Winner of, the Cairns Cup! I was wrong. Sort of. I said that Super Heroes can carry the grandstand. They can. But not 2nd, even with an absolute pearler of a ride by Ash Butler. Flash Aah got beaten a short half head, by a horse that it gave 10 kilos to. […]
Brothers Cairns thought they were the bomb after stealing the Premiership from the Port Douglas Mossman Sharks last year when they pulled a 13-12 overlap try after one of our boys got binned for 10 at the 66 minute mark, in the greatest disgrace of a decision since Our Poetic Prince lost the ’87 Caulfield […]
Forget culling, ignore death quotas, and just leave things be. The more crocs you kill, the more come out top play, and they play a lot more viciously than they did before too. That’s why we’ve been here the blink of an eyelid in real terms, and the crocodiles have been here since the dawn […]
The Rockhampton Jockey Club completed construction of 2 on-course horse stabling complexes last year. These stables were built with money provided courtesy of a Racing Queensland grant. It is rumored that the successful tender bidder for the project submitted their quote about a week after the tenders had closed. The whisper is that the winning […]
The Dubai World Cup tour crew You might remember the whisper we related last week about former Racing QLD CEO Brendan Parnell writing to the Cairns Jockey Club demanding to withhold the club’s funding if club supremo Tom Hedley wasn’t removed from his duly and lawfully democratically elected role as President. Well thanks to a […]
My wife Maggie loves animals, and can talk to them. Seriously. They talk back too. Her latest friends are crocodiles. She wants us to save them. We should too. I’d rather face up to a croc than have to front Maggie and tell her that I broke my promise to share her petition. Do me […]
There is something rather curious about the 2020/21 annual report and financial accounts of the Cairns Jockey Club. Well a few things really. The first is that some directors of the club – namely Greg Stanton and Scott Carpenter – provide in kind (i.e. free) professional services to the club in their field of calling, […]
