Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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.
https://www.boxing247.com/boxing-news/a-david-tua-comeback-the-51-year-old-has-whipped-himself-back-into-fantastic-shape/275212 A lot of people are laughing about the talk of my wife’s cousin David Tua making a comeback to the boxing ring at age 51, but they don’t know the man that they are laughing at, or his family. One of their cousins Vai was still playing A-Grade rugby in Auckland against All Blacks […]
The Tuaman with our nephews at the Fight For Life that he got us front row tickets to. I was taking the picture. Maggie’s cousin David Tua is one of the funniest blokes you will ever meet in your life. When we lived over there near him and his Mum he used to drive around […]
Dear RQ Did you know that a racehorse from QLD has won more races than any other galloper in the history of Australian racing? The horse’s name is Passion Moon, and between 1955 and 1969 it won somewhere between 109 and 119 races on QLD tracks, and received acclaim around the world? I didn’t know […]
Former champion North Queensland jockey Ian Toward has called in to tell us that we and the ABC are wrong about Fabs Cowboy equaling the record for most wins by a horse in the State when the great bush galloper racked up his 52nd race victory last week at Mt Isa. According to the man […]
