Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It just wouldn’t feel right if we went a day’s racing in Queensland without something going wrong. Yesterday it was a winner being incorrectly declared a scratching. Who knows just what it might be today? An elephant will probably escape from the circus and win at Ipswich. Oh no, that can’t happen. It’s too far […]
Readers View 1 Re Fabs Cowboy. It was only nominations. I guess todays weights might tell the story. Or Thursdays final acceptances will. Stella from Sandy Creek Readers View 2 The Longreach race is a plate run at set weights, therefore ratings are irrelevant The race at Charters Towers is a handicap, therefore ratings being […]
Nathan Dawson drove the horse drawn inside of the 2nd row in race 2 at Redcliffe tonight. Rock With Nate was it’s name. It ran 4th, meaning that it earned more prizemoney than the horses that finished 5th to 8th. But it shouldn’t have. Rock With Nate should have been disqualified. The horse crossed the […]
This is the crowd at the Gympie provincial meeting today. It makes the Flemington turnout look second rate. Eat your heart out VRC.
There are a number of theories floating around about the reason for the fall in race 7 at Eagle Farm and the subsequent abandonement of the meeting. Some say it was a reflection from the construction site at the 600 mark shining in riders eyes. Others say it was the shadows cast by the new […]
Jockey Brad Stewart has a shocking disciplinary history, having been outed on multiple occasions for alcohol and gamblng related offences, and once even jailed. In 2015 the Stewards gave Stewart a 3-month suspended ban for placing 17 bets on his TAB and Crownbet accounts, meaning that when he got sprung again in June having placed […]
QLD trainee apprentice jockey Breannen (Brea) Harrison is yet to even have her first race ride, and won’t for a while yet because on Tuesday the QRIC Stewards disqualified her for 4 months. Harrison, who gained a trainee license in the middle of last year but has had a stop start career riding in barrier […]
Hi Archie That TAB fixed odds ‘situation’ happened in other races at Albion Park on Tuesday as well. In race 5 the price setters put up $8 about the horse Novanta Rising, which ended up starting as the $1.30 favorite. It won of course won. In race 2 My Ultimate Eddie opened up at $8.50, […]
Is the rumblings we are hearing out of Brisbane are correct, strange things appear to be afoot within the walls of everyone’s favorite thoroughbred syndicator KO Thoroughbred Racing. The last time we wrote a story about them, KO Thoroughbred Racing’s website advertised its team as being founder Kobie O’Brien, partner Kurt Cockburn, Racing and Bloodstock […]
TAB fluctuations race 3 at Albion Park 16/7/2024 (from Dynamic Odds) Cougar Express was rated in the newspaper as a $3.50 chance to win the 3rd race at Albion Park on Tuesday. That price might well have been over the odds too, for the horse came into the race as a last start 15.3m winner […]
