Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Stewards at Rockhampton yesterday questioned trainer Nick Walsh about a number of significant bets that had been placed on his runner in the 2nd race Fine Shot when the early markets went up on Thursday. You might ask so what, but the reason that they asked the question is because the bets were placed […]
The injury toll at Bundaberg from last Monday’s meeting alone In the latter part of 2022 and early 2023 Racing Queensland spent $1.4 million on upgrades to the Bundaberg greyhound track, including the laying of a new grass surface and a full renovation of the track levels and cambers on the turns. At the time […]
On Monday we published a story titled Jigger Me Timber – Is It True That … In this story we posed the questions about whether it was true that …. a tool of a trainer turned up at his local track to work his horse the other day accompanied by a work rider who doubles […]
… NSW trainer Brett Cavanough has his horse Burdekin residing at the stables of disqualified trainer Todd Austin, he of the infamous Birdsville jigger jolt fame? … Austin’s wife Toni Austin, whose 12 month disqualification for involvement in the jigger affair has been strapping for Cavanough? … Todd Austin has been spotted working at the […]
A funny thing happened after we published out story yesterday about Racing Queensland having accepted NSW trainer Brett Cavanough’s nomination to race his galloper Burdekin for the Battle of the Bush qualifier on the weekend, even though the horse was ineligible to run under the conditions of the race. Within hours Burdekin’s nomination had disappeared. […]
Have you ever seen a half-time score like this in your life? It’s the right one, but it sure would start t0 look like overs if a maroons player got sent off early in the second half. Queenslanders aren’t that silly though. Some first hald observations. Nicho is not up to playing halfback at origin […]
Once upon a time the jockeys who rode in central Queensland lived in central QLD, but a combination of cheap air fares and a diminishing pool of riders in the country changed all that. Now days a large bulk of the jockeys riding in the region are mercenaries from Brisbane or one of the coasts, […]
ATA has addressed the issue again with RQ/QRIC – horses that dual accept and at least one of the races is a Feature (any race $75k or more), trainers have until 5pm on accept day to remove the horse from the Feature race otherwise it MUST run in the feature (even if an emergency in […]
A number of trainers sent us the advice republished in the story below that they received from the ATA (QLD) branch about the dual acceptance rule at the gallops, seeking our opinion. It took us a few reads to get our head around the rule, but once we understood it properly we had to say […]
Trainer David Van Dyke accepted his smart mare My Snow Queen to start in two races on Saturday, the Listed Chief De Beers and a Benchnark 85. She drew a place as emergency in both, 3rd emergeny in the BM85 and 4th emergency in the Chief De Beers. The Chief De Beers was a feature […]
