Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
QRIC Deputy Commissioner Kim Kelly claims that on the evidence of his inspections and this track gallop, there are no issues with the meeting going ahead on Saturday at this stage at all, and that if required they could have raced on Gold Coast track yesterday. Now we are usually huge fans of Kelly, and […]
January 9, 2025 Racing Queensland and the Gold Coast Turf Club advise that The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions Raceday will be staged at Aquis Park on Saturday. Earlier today, senior jockeys galloped on the course proper and deemed it safe to ride including the remediated area near the 500m mark. Queensland Racing Integrity Commission stewards […]
After a drama filled week it has been decided that the Magic Millions meeting will be run at the Gold Coast on Saturday as planned. After this morning’s test gallops both jockeys and stewards were satisfied that the damaged portion of the track is fit for racing and sufficiently safe to proceed with the meeting. […]
January 8, 2025 Racing Queensland advises senior jockeys will gallop on the course proper at the Gold Coast Turf Club on Thursday morning to help determine which venue will host The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions Raceday. With remediation to the Gold Coast Turf Club course proper scheduled to be completed today, stakeholders are planning […]
The Gold Coast sabotage story just gets wackier by the day. Now we have plastic hose nozzles and mixing equipment (i.e. sticks) being found just metres from the dead grass. We are supposed to believe that they sat there for four days right next to the ‘poisoned’ patch that scores of people inspected closely, and […]
Dear Peter Profit Allow me to let you and your readers in on a little secret. The Gold Coast track wasn’t sabotaged by a rogue group of animal activists. Those long-haired, cauliflower eating, racing hating dole bludgers are too stoned to poison in such perfect symmetrical straight lines. Plus they couldn’t afford to buy the […]
Looks like a boom spray has been involved. Chemical from the previous treatment hasn’t been rinsed out properly. Subsequent aesthetic chemical put in to green it up for the tv camera from 600m to winning post. Treatment applied and the first 30m has been the residual from previous treatment and we have a dead square, […]
Having clocked up hundreds of hours of being on the track in 25 years at Burnie and beyond with the water truck operating a boom spray that looks way too regular a patch for the boom spray to have being turned around on whilst still on. The laws of physics mean that the inside of […]
Lucky Lingard has been on fire over at his ever excellent website letsgohorseracing.com, and his last two in depth articles have been crackers. Here is the first of them about the Gold Coast track debacle. It’s a stuff up not sabotage says Lucky, and I believe him. Have a read and see what you think. […]
