Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
We have been spruiking Fabs Cowboys quest to become the most winning horse in Queensland history for a long time now, and today in the red center the Cowboy finally achieved it. What a great win. What a great horse. What a great trainer. What a great ride. The Cowboy has done it, at the […]
Isn’t it interesting to learn from the QLD Stewards that apprentice jockey Bailey Moffat is a Siamese twin. He’d just about have to be to have the ability to ride two horses in the same race wouldn’t he? According to the stewards Moffat was almost dislodged from Adashan in the first race at Mt Isa […]
Queensland’s iron horse, the fabulous Fab’s Cowboy, took his career win tally to 51 when he smashed them in the Open Plate at Mt Isa on Saturday afternoon. Although I can’t find any records to confirm it, I believe from memory of a conversation with Fab’s trainer Billly Johnson a year or so ago that […]
