Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Time heals all wounds they say, but leaves the scar So I think I’ll not go back to Camooweal No I think I’ll not go back to Camooweal Slim Dusty If it’s good enough for Slim, it’s good enough for Racing Queensland. There hasn’t been a meeting held at the track up at Camooweal track […]
Have a bet on my horse Pentito in the last at sunshine coast tomorrow, currently 3.1 on the fixed. Trained by Jason Edwards who’s going well. I believe he’s a 1.70 chance in that field but carrying big weight at 60kgs. I still think we’ll be too good, best of luck with the punt I got […]
There were 35 pre-race swabs taken from runners at the Rosehill meeting yesterday. Victoria took 32. South Australia pre-race swabbed 23. How about in Queensland you ask? They took just 5. Yes that’s correct, only 5 runners on the whole card in the 3rd biggest racing state in the land were pre-race swabbed so that […]
I’ve been telling people for years to forget about the Miracle Mile and the Inter Dominion and the Hunter Cup and the Blacks a Fake and all that sort of nonsense. There is only one show in town, and that’s the EKKA. The EKKA, better known as the QLD Royal National Association Show, is the […]
We’ve got a whole bunch of horse racing loving tourists up here at the moment for the Symons-Laxon wedding, and almost every one of the mugs is rushing off to pay some Mick Dundee type a motza to take them out to see a crocodile. I don’t why they bother. You only need to drive […]
Gladstone 19-year-old wonder kid Brooke Johnson (below, when she was 15) rode at a winner at her first ever meeting a month ago, and hasn’t stopped riding them since. She booted home a double yesterday on the Gladstone sand to give her a career record of 7 wins from 19 starts, at a strike rate […]
Robert Heathcote pleaded guilty to administering, or causing to administer, a product that is well known to contain cobalt to 23 horses in the space of just 2 months. His disciplinary history showed that he had been convicted of like offences before, and was thus a repeat offender. Many trainers with no disciplinary history at […]
There were only four horses in the 2nd race at Mackay on Tuesday. Two of them were owned by the same person, Mr K.A. Thomas. One was trained by Tim ‘Lay Down Sally’ Cook and ridden by his apprentice Alisha Donald. It’s name was Corporal, and it started at $31. The other one was called […]
Gday Archie, Was just reading through your stories from the weekend and wanted to confirm that it definitely did rain in Muttaburra on Saturday morning, it was still raining at 7.30am when they did the ring around. Two of the dirt roads into the town were also closed due to the rain and have only […]
