Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
For the second time in four days the officials in QLD have forgotten to remove the ear muffs from a horse before leaving the barriers, resulting in it running around looking like Scotchman with blue sideburns. It happened in race 4 at Bundaberg yesterday, and what happened afterwards was a comedy in itself. Starter B. […]
The 6th at Beaudesert this afternoon was delayed due to a snake reaching the winning post first. They say it was big one too. One brave member of the track staff shooed it away. I bet the job ad didn’t mention snake catching as a required skill. Only in Queensland. The royal state of racing […]
Why pay for mind altering drugs when you can watch QLD non-TAB race replays instead? If this one of the 1st at Home Hill today doesn’t send you spinning, nothing will. Abandon your Academy Award dreams Sunshine is my advice to the cameraman. At this stage of your career I reckon it might be a […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC01112403.mp4 Some very nice bets were landed when Aqua Sancta was backed from $151 into $21 to win the 2nd a Albion Park yesterday. The punters who got the cash should send rival driver Dayl Mach a Thank You card for making it all happen. Mach was on the $51 shot Bonnie’s Cam, who had […]
For many years in racing the female riders were forced to change in the toilets, because tracks didn’t provide any facilities for the minority to do so in comfort and privacy. The wheel’s turned full circle in Queensland now since Pam O’Neill first broke through the glass ceiling and set the ball rolling. 25 of […]
Take a look at this ride of Noel Callow in the 4th race at Doomben yesterday, and tell me how he avoided a suspension for either not giving his mount every possible opportunity to obtain the best finishing position, or alternatively for failing to ride the horse out to the finish. Callow is on Who […]
Now Richmond in outback Queensland is a long way from anywhere, and petrol costs $2 a litre. So what are the chances of getting 4 jockeys to spend $200 in fuel and half a day one way and half a night home driving on dusty roads lined with kangaroos seven feet tall so they can […]
I never cease to be astounded about the massive contradiction between the devout faith in racing integrity espoused by the people who run the three codes in this State, and the records of people employed or licensed in Queensland under their rigorous regulatory watch. Here are just a few off the top of my head. […]
The first race at Mt Isa on Monday turned into a horror show when two horses broke down badly in separate incidents during the event and had to be killed by the vet, although in racing we call it humanely euthanized because it sounds so much better. I Am Gold was a 4-year gelding on […]
We’ve been telling you since the day he became Premier that Steven Miles is a bucking idiot. This proves it. We’re a week out from the State election and Miles party is facing political oblivion. Many of his parliamentary colleagues are facing the fight of their lives to retain their seats. They and the ALP […]
