Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I am getting sick of hearing of falls in races all over the place. Kids are in hospital in critical condition, with their parents praying and crying by their sides. Blokes of grandfather age like me are holed up in them too, with non-life threatening but debilitating injuries like Jason Babarovich. Racing is a dangerous […]
Mark Latham left Randwick Racecourse on Saturday with, potentially, a huge loss — after he was sensationally served with a bankruptcy notice for the more than $170,000 in damages he owes after he vilified and defamed an openly gay parliamentary colleague. The Saturday Telegraph, covering The Golden Eagle racing event on Saturday, captured Mr Latham […]
I have forever been unsure whether Queensland racing suffers from a shortage of jockeys, a race scheduling issue, or inadequacies in the industry’s ability to engage with governments and regulatory authorities to address either, or perhaps a combination of both or all three. What is clear however is that this number of late scratchings due […]
The LNP t0ok over as the QLD Government after that imbecile Steven (Smiles) Miles gifted it to them, and as a result a bible bashing hypocrite who knew plenty about footy but SFA about racing took over as Racing Minister from the well-meaning niece of Tony and Gerry Bellino, who knew absolutely nothing about racing […]
The Queensland Government has given us an update on The Next Lap, it’s plan for the future of racing in the Sunshine State. Basically the guts of it hold the phone. Here is what is happening, or for those who like firm, swift decisions isn’t. An ‘Oversight Committee’ full of public service bureaucrats is at […]
The fringe dwelling Animal Justice Party has received disproportionate influence over the pat 4 years since its flagship politician Georgie Purcell, thanks to a preference swap deal, was elected as a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly with just 1.5% of the primary vote. It won’t happen again. Purcell and her party are gonzo at […]
Lachlan Murray – in racing parlance the Cod – has been the acting CEO of Racing QLD for a long time now, about a year and a half in fact. Why? Who knows. The only thing for sure is that as an actor, the Cod has won no Academy Awards in the role yet. Here […]
Michael Berkman MP is the Greens MP for the inner city Brisbane seat of Maiwar. Like all greens he is an anti-greyhound racing activist. And like most of his kind he is prepared to tell half truths and deceive you to promote his political cause. Take a look at this video he posted on his […]
Let me tell you more. As you saw in Berkman’s misleading video about the dogs in the story above, he derides greyhound racing as being nothing but a cruel vehicle to benefit the bookmaking industry that he quite correctly says donated $50 000 to the major political parties in QLD. Watch this. What this deceptive […]
We will have a lot more to say about the recommendations of the so-called One Equine View propounded in the Project Stamina report released yesterday in due course after we have read and dissected it a few more times, but here is our initial warning about the whole thing. Don’t fall for the feint, or […]
