Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Apprentice Gabrielle Semmens elected to take a full book of rides at Sprinsgure yesterday in preference to a couple of mounts in Townsville. It was a bit of a drive out to the mining town, but it proved worth the ride. Semmens landed a treble and a second from five races, including a win in […]
Bloody Victorians. They should just stay and race at home. Former country bookie and owner of Asian sex workers favorite mining town motel Gary Gorrie recently wrote a passionate defense of country racing published on our friend John Lingard’s excellent website letsgohorseracing.com.au. As regional Queenslanders ourselves – we live in Port Douglas, a town of […]
Morning Reading the article on the race meeting in Mt Isa on Saturday, I thought I’d offer my thoughts. I’ve been following race meetings throughout the year in this region (the North-West) and this is no stand out. It happens every meeting all year, the trainer stacks the races with horses doesn’t matter the class […]
We predicted that there would be 17 scratchings from the Mt Isa meeting due to no jockey being available to ride them, but we were wrong. There were actually 21. Jockey Jason Hoopert unfortunately had a fall in the first and had to be taken to hospital, so given there were no riders to take […]
There are 46 acceptances for Saturday’s race meeting at Mt Isa. 32 of the acceptors are trained by one person, Tanya Parry. Parry trains: 6 of the 8 runners in Race 1 6 of 9 in Race 2 3 of 8 in Race 3 Each the 9 out of 9 starters in Race 4 8 […]
There were 3 Stewards rostered on at Saturday’s race meeting in Clermont. Two of them came in one car from Rockhampton 370km away. The other came in a separate from Longreach, a 427km one-way drive. All 3 stewards stayed overnight and got accommodation, meals and a travel allowance. Each of them were paid Sunday overtime […]
Popular Queensland gallops trainer John Manzelmann appears to be pulling the pin on racing, judging by the huge number of his stable runners that have been listed for sale with online auction house bloodstock.com.au Manzelmann, a former leading trot trainer before switching his attention to the gallops, has had a long career in both codes […]
Turbeau was never going to run in Saturday’s Cooktown Cup with 62kg on its back. He was just in there to make up the numbers and ensure that they got a field of 5 at acceptances time so the race would go ahead for owner Tom Hedley’s other runner Battle Royale. The morning after the […]
Why pay for mind altering drugs when you can watch QLD non-TAB race replays instead? If this one of the 1st at Home Hill today doesn’t send you spinning, nothing will. Abandon your Academy Award dreams Sunshine is my advice to the cameraman. At this stage of your career I reckon it might be a […]
Now Richmond in outback Queensland is a long way from anywhere, and petrol costs $2 a litre. So what are the chances of getting 4 jockeys to spend $200 in fuel and half a day one way and half a night home driving on dusty roads lined with kangaroos seven feet tall so they can […]
