It Wasn’t the Aliens That Sabotaged the Gold Coast Track – It Was 007!
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 […]
The Aliens Did It! – Hope Island Harry Fingers the Gold Coast Saboteurs
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 […]
Readers Thoughts on the Gold Coast Track ‘Sabotage’ – Two
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, […]
Readers Thoughts on the Gold Coast Track ‘Sabotage’ – One
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 Says the Gold Coast Sabotage Story is Pure Edgar Britt
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. […]
Has the Gold Coast Track Really Been Poisoned? – Or Are We Being Conned?
The Gold Coast Turf Club is telling the world that it’s problematic new track has been poisoned. Is it true? If so, whodunnit? And how, and why? What would be the motivation for some miscreant to sneak out on to the Bundall track – presumably in the wee hours, under the cover of darkness – […]
The Gold Coast Grass Passes With Flying Colours
Three cheers to the track staff at the Gold Coast who took over from the ‘guru of grass’ Nevesh Ramdhani. They’ve done a great job to get the turf track fixed and back up and firing. It played fair all day. The times were fast. Every horse had an even chance. No-one slipped or slid. […]
Is the Gold Coast Turf Track Cursed?
Picture taken at the Gold Coast this morning Racing on the Gold Coast turf track takes its first step toward resumption this morning with the first trials being held back on the grass. Or they are supposed to be anyway. But the fog has rolled in like its the moors in England. Since when does […]
Gold Coast Set to Return to the Turf on Pink Ribbon Day, Saturday the 21st of September
Believe it when you see it, but according to the latest update to the Gold Cost Turf Club calendar, the long awaited return to racing on the turf is set down for Pink Ribbon day on the 21st of September. That first meeting back on the green stuff (if it happens) will be followed by […]