Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A Letter From Sally, the Hard Working Secretary of the Towers Jockey Club First published 2 February 2o22 A couple of days ago we wrote an article in which we were critical of the Towers Jockey Club (TJC) about what we (seemingly wrongly) believed was their failure to fix the race track in the town […]
So it’s Friday and acceptances are in, and WTF? Fabs Cowboy has been accepted to run his last race both Charters Towers and in Longreach, and has jockeys declared aboard in each. If you had gone out of your way to promote Fabs farewell like the Longreach race club have and someone had done this […]
Saturday is the last day of the 2023/2024 country racing season, which means its the last day that the great bush hero Fabs Cowboy will ever step out in a race. The question is, which racecourse will he be bidding us all farewell from? Longreach had been the mail all week, so much so that […]
Readers View 1 Re Fabs Cowboy. It was only nominations. I guess todays weights might tell the story. Or Thursdays final acceptances will. Stella from Sandy Creek Readers View 2 The Longreach race is a plate run at set weights, therefore ratings are irrelevant The race at Charters Towers is a handicap, therefore ratings being […]
Something strange went on at the far-western country TAB meeting at Barcaldine on Monday. The previous Wednesday only 5 horses had been pre-race swabbed at the midweek metropolitan TAB meeting at Eagle Farm. At Barcaldine 15 runner were. All of the jockeys riding at the meeting were swabbed too. Blood was taken from 7 of […]
The batteries must have run flat on trainer Patrick O’Toole’ss jigger during the week judging by the performance of his previously sparked up horse Oakleigh on the weekend at Alpha. The winner of just 1 race from 35 starts prior to being hit with the jigger turned post-jolt winner of 2 from 2 was back […]
When is the last time you saw a horse on the flat win a race by as far as Uplift won the B.A.R.C. Cup at the Mudgee picnic meeting yesterday? That’s not a win, it’s an obliteration. They say that weight stops trains. I guess they’re right. It sure did stop the other two. An […]
There has been a most unusual rash of photo finish cameras failing at country QLD race meetings recently, so many that it appears to be fast becoming an epidemic. In the past 10 days alone the cameras have failed to work during finished at the meetings at Maxwellton Blackall Bowen Dalby Why is this happening? […]
Maxwelton is a town of just 22 people located in the middle of nowhere, but there was plenty of action at the races yesterday. The QRIC sent Karl Stefanovic’s cousin Sharon out to take urine swabs from the female riders. There were a whole 2 at the meeting. The whole town and a few assorted […]
A cowboy never says goodbye, it’s not in his nature – Kurt Philip Behm At the grand old near retirement age of 12 the great Fabs Cowboy did it again yesterday, ripping his much younger rivals apart to win his 53rd race in the Open at Moranbah. That win made it 3 in a row […]
