Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mount Isa trainer Jay Morris is in the enviable position of having two of the best bush sprinters in Queensland in his stable, Revolt and Great Cosmic. Revolt has won 10 of its 12 starts under Morris’s care, with its only defeats for him coming when he travelled to Brisbane for the Battle of the […]
Trainer Jay Morris seems to be in a bit of trouble. We have been told why, but can’t say. What’s gone on here? Watch this space.
We were told just prior to 8.00am yesterday that the big race meeting at Gayndah on Saturday had been called off due to to the state of the track (more on that in a moment). By midday there had still been no official notification to the public about the meeting being canned. Then at 12.32pm […]
On the same day that the Tanya Parry trained 4-year-old mare I’lltellyouafter died a premature and completely unnecessary death on the dirt track of Richmond, one of its’ stablemates – ironically another 4yo mare named Lively Spirit – finished tailed out by almost 40 lengths in a race at the same meeting on the same […]
I’lltellyouafter is the 4-year-old mare we wrote about yesterday, the one who broke down in the race at Richmond, who we predicted would be dead before dinner time. Sadly we were right. The question is how did the Stewards allow the mare who had been beaten almost 20 lengths at its previous run and looked […]
Dear Peter Profit SAT 19 SEP TAB Eagle Farm Aquis Park Gold Coast NON-TAB Winton Talwood Sportsbet Gladstone Morven Gympie Atherton How are RQ able to put on only 2 TAB Metro and 6 Non-Tab meetings on Saturday What has happened to their Provincial and Country TAB meetings especially since Toowoomba is not on this […]
What do you make of the Cloncurry races on Saturday? It is a four race non-TAB card that has 6 runners in each race, 24 in total. Four trainers prepare the 24 runners. Tanya Parry has 13. Shryn Royes 7. Toni Schofield 3. Ray Hermann 2. There will be a ton of scratchings for want […]
During the week we tipped you Hello World to win the Birdsville Cup. We might have been a day early, because today on day 1 of the carnival it won the Akubra. The Akubra was a 1000m race. Tomorrow’s Cup is over a mile. Will trainer Kym Healy back him up, that is the burning […]
Western QLD racing identity Gary Peoples pictured) has been many things over his long career – bookmaker, Barcaldine Regional Councillor, former Mayor of Aramac (pop. 372), wagon driver, drover following in the footsteps of the bushranger Captain Starlight – but the one thing he hasn’t been in recent years is lucky at Birdsville. In fact […]
Tanya Parry trainer 18 of the 31 runners yesterday on the 5 race McKinlay card. Shryn Royes trained another 5. The remaining 8 starters were prepared by Ray Hermann (3), Mark Oates (3) and Kerry Krogh (2). Five trainers. $50 000 prizemoney plus $7500 in QTIC bonuses. More thousands in subsidies. And absolutely zero by […]
