Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
REPORTS are circulating that greyhound racing is set to be banned in Tasmania from 2029. Tasmanian-based sports reporter Brent Costelloe took to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday night, declaring news of a proposed ban on greyhound racing in the state will drop within the next 24 hours. “Greyhound racing is set to be banned in […]
Archie Take a look at Ballarat greyhounds race 3 Saturday night. Head on looking at the boxes. Useless Stewards didn’t notice the cover they use to back out non runners on the box sitting in front of box 8. Mike from Manly
I was going to write this as a story about what a great and safe racetrack the Q1 Lakeside was compared to its trouble plagued sister circuit the Q2 Parkside; but before I did I decided to check to see if my observational analysis was right. Sadly it wasn’t. Yet another dog died at the […]
John Lingard from letsgohorseracing.com.au has a few alternative ideas for the relocation of the trots. They are all good ideas, but are a snowflake’s chance in hell of ever happening. The last one brought back memories. ———————————————– Albion Park is owned by the Government so harness bosses have little bargaining power. It would be interesting […]
I dunno who these lads at the Grafton dogs tonight are, but they made effort to give us a smile and a wave so I thought we’d give them one back. Good on ya boys. I hope you are backing a winner.
There is one question every racing fan in Queensland is asking aloud this morning, and it is a simple one. How f**king hard is it to build a race track? In every State of Australia bar Queensland the answer is it’s not hard at all. But up here in the Sunshine State the answer to […]
STATEMENT BY RACING QUEENSLAND Racing Queensland advises that Saturday’s tentatively rescheduled Brisbane Cup feature meeting has now been abandoned. On Monday, the Queensland Greyhound Racing Club oversaw the refurbishment of the track which was graded and power harrowed to a depth of 150mm. This evening, Queensland Racing Integrity Commission Stewards conducted an inspection with an independent […]
Champion greyhound trainer Ron Ball has today won his appeal against the Stewards decision to restart his 10-year-disqualification imposed during the live baiting scandal of the mid-2010’s. QRIC Stewards had previously determined that Ball had breached the terms of his DQ by attending the property of his partner and then licensed trainer Serena Lawrence in […]
There are very disturbing rumors emanating out of greyhound racing circles about the state of health that one of the QLD Cup runners was presented to the later abandoned race meeting in. The greyhound – whose name we know but at this stage will not print – turned up at the track unsteady on its […]
At a time when Queensland’s new 3 track greyhound complex The Q is under attack from animal activists who allege than 10 dogs have died at the various circuits since its opening three months ago, the last thing the industry needed was a catastrophic breakdown in the home straight of a race in full view […]
