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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. […]
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 – […]
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. […]
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 […]
