And He Called it Too
Awesome shot! pic.twitter.com/KkJ8Ktv0EE — Figen (@TheFigen_) April 29, 2024
As the Light Starts to Fade on His Career, the Amazing Fab’s Cowboy Does it Again – and Chalks Up Win Number 54
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 the Lion
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 […]
Vale Terry Hill – Greyhound Man
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. […]
Anthem For Doomed Youth
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 […]
A Drink and a Smoke a Day Keep the Grim Reaper Away – HRV Should Call For an Aged Vet Exam
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 […]
Vale the Shoe
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 […]
Bettors Delight and the Black Stallion – Champions Often Look the Same
Bettor’s Delight is the magnificent looking stallion at the top. The Black Stallion is the superb one below. Champions often look the same.
An Unstoppable Force of Nature
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 […]
We Nominate Passion Moon For Induction Into the QLD Racing Hall of Fame
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 […]