Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The riders at Mt Isa today paid a fitting tribute to their fallen comrade Shane McGovern, who has been tragically lost to a terrible trackwork incident. All jockeys at the meeting are wearing black armbands in the memory of Shane. It is a very somber mood indeed. No-one wants to be out there riding today. […]
The QLD racing industry is in mourning today as we learn the terrible news that popular bush jockey Shane McGovern has passed away earlier this morning due to complications from the horrific injuries he suffered in a recent trackwork fall. The thoughts of the author and all of our many readers are with Shane’s family, […]
The Battle of the Bush is a Queensland race series featuring a $200 final for horses that have won their way through one or more of 16 qualifiers run at country tracks. It a series restricted this year to horses that have not won a metropolitan race (as per RQ metropolitan win definition) in the […]
It looks like only 6 jockeys will be attending the Battle of the Bush qualifier meeting at Cloncurry on Saturday, which is a shame for connections of the hopefuls in the big $250 000 race series, for at means at least 2 and maybe 3 of the entrants in the qualifier will have to be […]
There are 7 races at the Warwick gallops meeting on the Darling Downs on Thursday, with a total of 92 runners competing across the card. Such great sized fields are a wonderful thing for Queensland racing. There is just one problem, and it is not the usual one about a lack of jockeys to ride the […]
Lachlan Murray is the acting CEO of Racing Queensland. Muz doesn’t act very well. To be fair to the bloke, not even Marlon Brando could sell us the bullshit lines that he is spouting. He knows and understands that rising fuel costs are causing havoc to participants in all 3 codes across the state, Muz […]
It’s a lonely life for single man out in Barcaldine. And subscriptions to dating sites are expensive. Thank goodness for Facebook, and Meet QLD Singles. What Princess from the Kingdom of the Tree of Knowledge wouldn’t want to meet a man named Terry who is hung like a horse, or hangs off one holding a […]
The jockey shortage in QLD that we have been banging on about for ages is really starting to bite. There were late scratchings everywhere last weekend due to a lack of riders. Racing QLD have never done a great deal to address the problem, and it has continued to do nothing by way of fuel […]
Out peeps in the legal fraternity tell us than Jason Hoopert got done for ‘driving’ pissed over the general limit, but not over the middle limit, and for driving without a license. The funny thing is that we are told that the fool wasn’t driving a car, he was riding an e-scooter. What an absolute […]
Further to our earlier story about jigger man Todd Austin’s new bowler Terry Hall, we are told that the new kid in town almost collected and cleaned up a somewhat large – as in front rower sized – former trainer’s much loved wife while working his horses in the dark on the Barcaldine track in […]
