Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last month on Stradbroke day the old John Power grandstand made the headlines when the Brisbane Racing Club publicly challenged the QLD Racing Minister to stump up the $80 million allegedly required required to renovate it. The Courier-Mail reported the Minister saying that “the government had not allocated specific money for the grandstand due to […]
Our track spies at Eagle Farm are telling us that the current track rating of Soft 6 for Wednesday’s meeting will turn to Heavy before the race day begins. They reckon that the track is rooted, and that it wouldn’t take much for the meeting to be called off. What they want to know is […]
The word out of Ascot, QLD this week is that at least one trainer who is walking around sporting cracked ribs and a busted eye believes that Eagle Farm was the scene of crime perpetrated on him last week by a former owner and one time bestie with whom the trainer had recently had an […]
Gee Eagle Farm is a funny track. It raced like a Soft 7 yesterday when it was only a Soft 5, with horses throwing up clods almost the size of bowling balls. Yet winners were running Good 3 type times. Mishani Lily is only a 2YO, but she won in just 3/4 of a second […]
After a series of cancelled meetings due to problems with the drainage from the course proper, the Cairns Jockey Club has finally advertised for a new full-time track manager. It’s about time. The bloke that they need is Sean Bridges, the former Eagle Farm track manager who got crucified over the failure of the course […]
Eagle Farm and Doomben are located quite literally directly across the road from each other, so close that anyone with a half decent arm could throw throw a cricket ball from one track to the other, no worries at all. What you see above are rainfall and irrigation reports submitted to Racing Australia. We believe, […]
The word from the track is that Political Debate, the favourite for the Group 1 J. J. Atkins tomorrow at Eagle Farm, has soreness issues and is under a veterinary cloud. Apparently the Waller trained 2YO has been vetted today and will be vetted again in the morning prior to being passed fit to run. […]
I wonder why the CEO of Albion Park is banned from going to the races at Eagle Farm? You would have thought a race club boss would be on the VIP list wouldn’t you? Especially one who used to hold a senior executive position with the host race club, and was for years a permanent […]
Hasn’t Ray Hadley got a bee in his bonnet about the Danny Bougoure eviction from Eagle Farm? He’s like a rabid dog savaging a bone. Hadley was at it again today on his radio show this morning, attacking D. Bougoure’s landlords from all sides, in particular the reindeer, Matt Rudolph. It’s only going to get […]
I know there are trainers out there who say that Eagle Farm is still too hard, and that it jars their horses up. Maybe that’s true, but this is Queensland and soft tracks are really only something that you should encounter when it rains, so if you can’t handle the hard send your horse down […]
