Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The QLD racing industry is in mourning today as we learn the terrible news that popular bush jockey Shane McGovern has passed away earlier this morning due to complications from the horrific injuries he suffered in a recent trackwork fall. The thoughts of the author and all of our many readers are with Shane’s family, […]
John Zielke was one upon a time the premier trainer of 2YO’s in QLD, back in the days when he used to be in charge of Evan Hartley’s horses. It all seems so long ago not. Zielkie is what the Kiwi call a waka jumper, a bloke who instead of committing himself to something long […]
Saturday’s Doomben Cup may well have attracted a disappointing field of just seven, but it is one seriously high class contest and is going to be one hell of a good race. Half Yours is a dual Caulfield-Melbourne Cup winner, and throughout history there aren’t many of them. Vauban is a triple Group winner on […]
The Ipswich racecourse has been deluged with rain in the 24 hours up to yesterday, copping a downfall of 55m of water that has rendered the track as of 5.30pm yesterday a Heavy 10. Being built on a flood plain next to a river Ipswich doesn’t drain real fast. Racing QLD knowing this has postponed […]
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 […]
