Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Brisbane Winter carnival is over, and the swabs seem to have gone on vacation. Only 8 runners on yesterday’s 9 race card at Doomben were pre-race swabbed, two of them in the same race. No horse was pre-race tested in races 3 or 8. Not one of Tony Gollan’s seven runners copped one. None […]
Portrait of Ben Currie as a young man. Lucky for him his old man never missed. Nothing’s changed about Boof except the waist line and the color of his hair. Those Currie boys from up on the range sure know how to pull off a plunge. Courtesy of a perfect ride by Jackson Murphy they […]
Poor Jessica Lindsay (pictured) – God bless her soul Bailey Wheeler was fined $750 on Tuesday for accepting a ride for which he couldn’t make the weight. It was at least the 2nd time in the past month that he has offended against the rule. There is real concern about this talented hoop’s marked weight […]
The battle for the QLD jockeys premiership title took a wicked double twist and turn this week. First on Monday the Racing Appeals Panel of Judge Kerry O’Brien and former jockeys Ken Waller and Eddie Wilkinson knocked back the title front runner Angela Jones appeal against her 10 day suspension for careless riding, commenting that […]
There is one question every racing fan in Queensland is asking aloud this morning, and it is a simple one. How f**king hard is it to build a race track? In every State of Australia bar Queensland the answer is it’s not hard at all. But up here in the Sunshine State the answer to […]
STATEMENT BY RACING QUEENSLAND Racing Queensland advises that Saturday’s tentatively rescheduled Brisbane Cup feature meeting has now been abandoned. On Monday, the Queensland Greyhound Racing Club oversaw the refurbishment of the track which was graded and power harrowed to a depth of 150mm. This evening, Queensland Racing Integrity Commission Stewards conducted an inspection with an independent […]
How utterly odd it is that none of Grant Dixon’s three runners in the Rising Sun got pre-race swabbed. Five of the twelve starters had samples taken from them, but not one of his. Two of the five three-year old’s in the race were tested but none of them were Dixon’s. I guess he is […]
There are very disturbing rumors emanating out of greyhound racing circles about the state of health that one of the QLD Cup runners was presented to the later abandoned race meeting in. The greyhound – whose name we know but at this stage will not print – turned up at the track unsteady on its […]
The short listing on harness.org.au said the Rising Sun was a preferential draw based on age and sex. But the conditions of the race advertised in Pace magazine said something quite different, very different indeed. They said that the Seeded Barrier Draw provisions of QLD harness racing would not apply. The reason they wouldn’t apply […]
I always thought that I was pretty au fait with the rules of racing, but this one has me baffled. Apprentice Montana Philpott replaced now senior rider Dan McGillivray as the rider of Star Chance in the last race at Ipswich yesterday. Now it was weird that McGillivray was able to accept the ride in […]
