Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Battle of the Bush is a Queensland race series featuring a $200 final for horses that have won their way through one or more of 16 qualifiers run at country tracks. It a series restricted this year to horses that have not won a metropolitan race (as per RQ metropolitan win definition) in the […]
It seems incredible how much the Chantal Turpin/Pete McMullen (pictured above) stable can improve hitherto slow horses that come over from New Zealand, and the 2-year-old gelding Aardie’s A Star which made its Australian debut at Albion Park today is yet another example. Aardie was anything but a star back at home, where he had […]
The 5th and last race at Longreach on Sunday was declared a no-race after the Stewards in consultation with the stater established that when the start was affected the barrier gates opened at different intervals and most of the field was disadvantaged . Fair enough too. Look what happened when the gates flew, or some […]
The Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) were falling over themselves to get money from the State Government to build a new grandstand at Eagle Farm for their handful of members. Ministers and Premiers were lobbied, a PR campaign was run painting the new members stand as a life or death priority, and the public was all […]
A question has recently arisen about whether every greyhound trainer in QLD who employs staff are paying the requisite workers compensation premiums to ensure that these low paid workers are covered by insurance for lost wages, medical bills and possible disability payouts in the case of injury. The answer as far as we can ascertain […]
Bailey Wheeler has stuffed up so many times that you lose count. Pretty much every one of his debacles has resulted from one or a combination of his inability to handle alcohol, his addiction to poker machines and his late night playing, and his attitude. The kid has all the talent in the world, but […]
Lucky Lingard reports on his ever excellent racing website letsgohorseracing.com.au the following in regard to the dud start at Toowoomba last Saturday night that was declared by Stewards a beauty. God help us all. THE Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) has advised that a panel of Senior Stewards is currently conducting a Review into a […]
Well her old man might be running up the beach at the Gold Coast keeping his weight down and looking for used soft drink cans to cash in so he can earn the price of a packet of smokes while he serves out the tail end of his DQ for drunken after hours stupidity, but […]
What you see above is the start of race 1 at Toowoomba last night. The horse jumping from barrier 5 clearly gets an advantage as its gate opens fully while the other runners gates are still closed and just starting to spring open. What does the Stewards report say about it? Zero. Nothing at all. […]
The horse whose gates are wide open while all the others are shut only gained a head advantage at the start did it? Or so the Stewards say anyway. If they are correct then I am Rocky Balboa. Minus the title belt and the punch.
