Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The races at Eagle Farm on Tuesday kick off at the ridiculous time of 10.12 am. Which makes one thing an absolute Cup day certainty. That good thing? That their will be young champagne fueled fillies spewing in the rose garden before the clock strikes 12. Midday. And that there will be pissed people all […]
When is the last time you evert saw a 2-horse race at a metro meeting on a Saturday run on a Good 4 track? How about never, until yesterday. There were eight accepted starters for race 1 at Eagle Farm, a Maiden run over the distance of 2406m. Six of them were scratched, leaving the […]
The Brisbane Racing Club must know something that most of us don’t about the funding for its new members stand, for the club last month lodged a development application replete with detailed designs and assessments for the project with the Brisbane City Council. It would be highly unlikely that the BRC would have done such […]
Peter Did you hear the call of the Battle of the Bush at Eagle Farm yesterday? The caller must have dropped his binoculars at the start. “Back in the Field” was mentioned 74 times in the final 400m. Listen to it again. I thought Back in the Field was a horse! He called the photo […]
The buffoons at the Brisbane Racing Club can’t seem to get their track right, which is little surprise to anyone. They can’t even get their own track records correct. Most of the times that appeared as records in the race book for yesterday’s Stradbroke meeting were wrong. So are those that appear on the BRC […]
We felt the track was safe but it was the visibility and the kickback which ultimately resulted in the remainder of the card being cancelled – QLD Chief Steward Josh Adams Somewhat bizarrely given what appeared obvious to all, the Stewards wanted the riders to race on at Eagle Farm yesterday, claiming that the track […]
For the jockeys to stop work during the trials today to carry on this meeting, it is just so exceptionally disappointing … I just felt it showed very little care or understanding of the rest of the industry, we (trainers) are annoyed and disappointed at the situation which could have been handled outside of these […]
Look at the size of this new tower compared to the other two, and look where its positioned. What do you think the problem might be? And do you think sightscreens are going to fix it? I’m sure going up so high seemed to its architects a good idea at the time. After all, the […]
Representatives from the Brisbane Racing Club attempted to argue that the construction was not causing the issue, which was rejected by the jockeys association. As all of the incidents have involved horses not from Brisbane, BRC officials raised the possibility of not allowing horses who have not raced at Eagle Farm to nominate in the […]
The picture above is an extract from a story writter by Trenton Akers and published on Racenet on 27 April 2o24 https://www.racenet.com.au/news/jimmysstar-burns-punters-again-in-brisbane-handicap-won-by-mighty-ulysses-20240427 I knew I’d seen it before. A horse shy at the exact same section of the Eagle Farm track as the one on Saturday that caused the fall did. I wrote a story […]
