Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We’re told that the crowd at Flemington on Saturday afternoon was so thin that you could driven a bulldozer through the lawn without any danger of knocking a person down. Sure it was an abysmal day weather wise, but the low turnout must still be a huge worry for the VRC as it heads in […]
Bookmaker at Longreach yesterday Peter Anderson looks for all the world in the photo like a man who has just run over his own dog, and backed up and squashed his wife’s cat flatter than a pancake too. Anderson’s long face almost makes you feel so sorry for him that you want to walk up […]
Bob KATTER: This question is to the CEO. I should start by saying that prior to your tenure there were a number of issues with track redevelopment, namely at Charters Towers and Charleville, and, as I understand it, personnel being moved on. Do you see that impacting on the ability to do upgrades that are […]
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 […]
