Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Aden Conlan (pictured above with his mum Rebecca, who is an active committee member of the Cairns Jockey Club) A couple of boys from well-known Far North QLD bookmaking families celebrated their big nights out together on the town in Cairns last night, and by all reports it was a big one. I hope so, […]
News is legend” a little slow sometimes up here and it has taken longer than it should have to filter through of the passing of Laurie Buik late last month. People forget quickly but for 18 months Buik’s small team was the envy of every trainer in the country. His draft of racehorses in the […]
Awesome shot! pic.twitter.com/KkJ8Ktv0EE — Figen (@TheFigen_) April 29, 2024
I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trailA starry night, a campfire lightThe coyote callAnd the howling winds wailSo I’ll ride out to the old sundown – Thin Lizzy The Queensland wonder horse of the bush Fab’s Cowboy may be Gold Card eligible at 12-years of age, and under the compulsory retirement rules the […]
Leo Molloy is one of racing’s great characters. He is a registered vet who r0de as an apprentice when young (a long time ago), and later became a trainer. In 2020 he was warned off tracks for a year for calling then RIU (now RIB) investigator and former cop Neil Grimstone a racist c**t. “It […]
LEGEND dog man Jimmy Coleman remembers it like it was yesterday. “Christine and I were at Wentworth Park and this young football bloke called Terry Hill, I think he was 17 then, approached us to train a dog for him,” Coleman said. “He’d only just got his driver’s license but he already had a greyhound. […]
My great-grandfather Jack Sheehan, who died on the Western Front on Anzac Day 1918, in the battle of Villers-Brettoneaux that helped save the British Isles, and win the war What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their […]
When her 73-year-old husband, Fernand, died in 1942 (reportedly due to cherry poisoning), Jeanne Calment, aged 67, probably never would have guessed she’d go on to live for a further five and a half decades, especially given the fact that the average life expectancy for a French woman born in the 19th century was 40-50 […]
The Shoe returns to scale after winning the 1958 Melbourne Cup on Baystone Sad news today that legendary Queensland Hall of Fame jockey Mel Schumacher passed away in his sleep on Friday morning. The Melbourne Cup winning jockey known far and wide as the Shoe had been living out in Charleville in recent years. He […]
Bettor’s Delight is the magnificent looking stallion at the top. The Black Stallion is the superb one below. Champions often look the same.
