Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is a slight problem with the Stewards Report from Fabs Cowboys last day of racing at Longreach on Saturday that’s been posted on the QRIC website. This is not actually Saturday’s Longreach Stewards report. It says it is, but its not. It’s the report from the meeting held at the track on the 12th […]
Earlier in the week we told you about Chantal Turpin’s trotter Top Of The Moment’s atrocious record of galloping in races, and explained to you why he shouldn’t have been allowed to race in the Group 1 Trotter’s Cup last night, as under the usual practice the Stewards should have stood the horse down. You […]
A month or two ago we wrote about the safety risks of running greyhounds on the grass track at Bundaberg, and called for the Queensland authorities to immediately shut racing down there on animal welfare grounds until the course is remodeled and rebuilt with a sand surface. Sadly for the dogs that continue to get […]
A Letter From Sally, the Hard Working Secretary of the Towers Jockey Club First published 2 February 2o22 A couple of days ago we wrote an article in which we were critical of the Towers Jockey Club (TJC) about what we (seemingly wrongly) believed was their failure to fix the race track in the town […]
A day hardly ever seems to go by in Queensland racing without a stuff-up somewhere in Queensland. A week ago it was Eagle Farm calling off a meeting mid-stream due to known problems flaring up again, last night it was the Redcliffe trots turn. The meeting there had to be abandoned after just three races […]
So it’s Friday and acceptances are in, and WTF? Fabs Cowboy has been accepted to run his last race both Charters Towers and in Longreach, and has jockeys declared aboard in each. If you had gone out of your way to promote Fabs farewell like the Longreach race club have and someone had done this […]
Look at the size of this new tower compared to the other two, and look where its positioned. What do you think the problem might be? And do you think sightscreens are going to fix it? I’m sure going up so high seemed to its architects a good idea at the time. After all, the […]
Top Of The Moment is a talented but temperamental trotter trained by Chantal Turpin who has galloped in 9 of his 26 starts, or 35% of his races. The horse has been stood down from racing twice after galloping within 3 starts after being placed on its last chance to race truly after galloping in […]
I will bet you an arm and a leg against a roast chook that Always Smokin suffers a problem in the next few days and gets scratched from the 4YO Championship at Albion Park on Saturday night. It’s London to a brick on. Owner Craig Whiteoak has two runners in the race, Always Smokin and […]
Saturday is the last day of the 2023/2024 country racing season, which means its the last day that the great bush hero Fabs Cowboy will ever step out in a race. The question is, which racecourse will he be bidding us all farewell from? Longreach had been the mail all week, so much so that […]
