Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Not that many months ago Bailey Wheeler was the red hot gun Queensland apprentice, riding winners in town at the same sort of strike rate as the top senior jockeys in Brisbane. Wheeler was going so well that he still sits a close 2nd on the metro apprentices ladder behind Ceejay Graham, who has had […]
We live just around the corner from the street in which this story is filmed. It’s paradise. Or it used to be at least. But now here we are watching an oft incommunicative Mayor with bling in his ear grinning and telling us that every time it rains we won’t have any water, and there […]
We hear a lot about Jamie Kah and Michelle Payne breaking glass ceilings in gallops racing, and Kate Gath and Kerryn Manning having done the same at the trots, but little is said about the long-standing role of women in greyhound racing, which has long been an equal opportunity domain. But is it really? In […]
So the QLD Stewards declared Hachiman a starter in race 5 at Ipswich yesterday, claiming that the horse reared as the start was being effected. They have to be kidding don’t they? Here below is where the horse reared and cut its head. And here below is where Hachiman was when the start was actually […]
In recent decades Australian trade unions have struggled to overcome a number of challenges, including a rapidly changing policy environment, a societal focus on the individual over the collective, declining membership and aggressively hostile employers and governments. This experience is mirrored in New Zealand, the USA and United Kingdom. However, unions remain important societal institutions […]
It is only 8 years until Queensland is due to host the Olympic Games, and things are in absolute disarray. The revamped Gabba was supposed to host the opening and closing ceremonies, and the athletics, the most popular and prestigious sport of the Games. That project is tens on to be abandoned. Brisbane Arena was […]
This is the Stewards Report from race 8 at Doomben yesterday. A question, or two actually. When there were no protests or major incidents in the previous race, and there are no pre-race incidents in this one, shouldn’t the field get to the start on time, particularly when it is only 250m or so from […]
Food or school: Harrowing choice facing Qld families The return of school will add significant financial stress to Queenslanders, with some schools charging thousands of dollars for uniforms and supplies… Queensland families are being forced to choose between food, rent and fuel over rising school costs, new data from The SmithFamily reveals. Cost-of-living pressures are […]
Eddie Birchley, the original fireman (and no relation to Liam) Hello Archie and all your readers, Well I just had to put pen to paper again. Recent events just keep ringing things in your head and question why bother to be involved in RQ racing scene as an owner or punter. Passion for the horses […]
This Steward’s report from race 5 at the Sunshine Coast last Sunday is shite. Dan McGillvray didn’t just make contact with rival rider Jasper Franklin, he quite deliberately elbowed him in the head. It wasn’t careless riding, it was foul. Highly dangerous too. So was Franklin’s reprisal when he gave McGillivray the Malachi Crunch to […]
