Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 1: PARKER’S PLUMBING & GASFIT OPEN Handicap (1100 METRES) ABLETT – Raced three-wide without cover throughout. Laid in under pressure in the home straight. HENRY’S BLADE – Blundered and dislodged its rider approaching the 300m. Upon veterinary examination it was revealed that the gelding had sustained a serious injury to its off-foreleg and was […]
I am not sure whether to describe what went on at yesterday’s non-TAB meeting at Wondai in QLD as a tragedy or a farce. It was probably both, and there but for the grace of God could have been a whole lot worse. A runner in the first race fell. Henry’s Blade was its name, […]
See the ratings of the horse Smart Mission in the screenshot above taken from the Racing Australia (RISA) website above? Smart Mission has dropped 11 ratings points after its last start 5th at Mackay. Horses don’t drop eleven points after a loss. They drop one. Racing QLD have made a serious error here. As a […]
Tomorrow’s big race meeting at Eagle Farm should be dubbed Invasion Day, because that’s what it is, with trainers from interstate dominating the runners on the program, particularly in the black type races. Queensland trained horses are notable by their absence from the Group 1 Derby, with only 3 of the 18 likely starters trained […]
Sunshine Coast trainer Billy Healey sent out a message to his stable clients a couple of days ago telling them that he had sacked his new Racing Manager Ben Currie. Some people believed it. Currie Racing has fired back. I know who I would bet on to be telling the truth about the whole affair. […]
Queensland’s former premier trainer turned racing manager Ben Currie looks to be out of work judging by the above message sent by trainer Billy Healey to stable clients yesterday. Whilst the message doesn’t state it explicitly, the obvious inference is that Healey has sacked Currie from his managerial role at the racing operation, an unexpected […]
Is it any wonder that Queensland’s once leading apprentice Bailey Wheelbarrow (Wheeler) is these days spending his weekends riding at shit meetings like Kilcoy and Cliff0rd Park? After watching this poor excuse for a steer at the Mooney Valley of the north on Friday there is no way that any metro trainer worth their salt […]
Why do races at Clifford Park consistently jump late every week? Doesn’t the Toowoomba Turf Club club realize that punters having a crack at finding a get out winner at meetings like theirs tend to bet in the last minute before the jump? And that by running behind time and getting bumped to Sky 2 […]
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 […]
