Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
REMOVAL OF DIRECTOR The Members may, by resolution of 75% of Members, remove a Director before the end of the Director’s period of office, notwithstanding anything in the Constitution or any agreement between the Company and the Director. It never rains in South Australia, it only pours. First we had the civil war at Gawler […]
What sort of a political leader gets spooked by a bad poll and publicly admits that he’s almost a dead cert to lose the next election, and take a whole lot of his MP’s into never-never land with him? Steven Miles – Smiles – that’s who. Wouldn’t you love to have this pea-hearted give-upo merchant […]
RACING INDUSTRY The Hon. MARK LATHAM (22:06): The whacky plan for the sale of Rosehill racecourse is getting whackier by the day. On the weekend Alex Smith ofThe Sydney Morning Herald reported government sources saying that the racecourse could be moved to the brick pit site at Homebush. There is only one problem: The pit is filled […]
WHAT a disastrous weekend it’s been for the sport in Queensland and if Racing Minister Grace Grace hasn’t heard the increasing calls for the removal of QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard (pictured above) she must be living under a rock. Former Sunday Mail Editor and Sky News boss in Queensland, Peter Gleeson, in a stunning expose […]
The secretly funded new seemingly anti-Peter V’landys racing website thestraight.com.au broke new ground in its apparent campaign against the Racing NSW CEO by reciting from a speech given to the largely irrelevant upper house in the state given by the totally irrelevant MP Mark Latham under parliamentary privilege. https://thestraight.com.au/all-tip-no-iceberg-latham-launches-extraordinary-parliamentary-attack-on-part-time-peter-vlandys/ In his speech the madcap former […]
In 14 seasons between 2008 and 2023 Tasmanian trainer Wayne Yole had 112 starters across all tracks, for just 13 winners. Since his son Ben struck stormy waters, in the not yet 3 months alone of this current season the 72-year Yole – who just by conicidence happens to live at the same address as […]
Dan Ballard is best known as the king of the country, a Hall of Fame jockey who at age just 38 has won the bush riders premiership multiple times. He is also a bloke who puts a lot back into the sport through his involvement with the Mt Isa Turf Club over the years as […]
It’s all over for the mug unelected QLD Premier Steven Miles, the bobble headed, pumped up marionette of the factional overlords of the left. It always ways really, well before the good doctor of union organising – a craft he’s never performed – ever began in his utterly undeserved role in the big chair running […]
The findings of the review of the planned Olympic venues commissioned by the State Government are in, and the proposed redevelopment of Albion Park is out. The review has called for the planned venue on the trot site to be relocated to another site in the northern suburbs of Brisbane – probably Marchant Park or […]
If there is one thing that Queenslander hate in their politicians its weakness. Joh wasn’t weak, nor was big Russ. Beattie wasn’t either. Annastacia Palaszczuk was strong until she fell in love and took her eye of the ball, but even then you wouldn’t fight her. Mike Ahern and Russel Cooper and Rob Borbidge were, […]
