Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Miracle Mile winning champion Leap To Fame has been announced in the NZ harness racing media as a certainty to be making the trip across the ditch in a few weeks time to compete in the $1 million Race by Grins, but not everyone is so sure he will, with speculation rife in harness racing […]
As a driver, trainer and breeder, Peter Bagrie left a huge imprint on harness racing. After a more than 50 year involvement in the sport he died last week, after a battle with cancer. Among his many achievements : In 1978 he drove Gentle George to win four times during New Zealand Cup week, one […]
Prostate cancer is one of the greatest killers of men. My Dad died from it. It was awful and it was ugly and you wouldn’t wish it on your worst enemy, let alone someone you deeply love. Medical researchers are getting closing to finding a preventative cure by the day, but need money to get […]
Jeff Jones was a much loved greyhound trainer who through his efforts for trainers, owners and breeders to advance the industry via his involvement with GBOTRA gave back to greyhound racing as much as he got. Sadly Jeff died way too young – only the good do – but he is remembered through the memorial […]
