Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This scrawny, mangy ghost of a horse is King Kulafu. My mate The Boxer owned him until a couple of weeks ago. He last saw him at the start of May before he left for Thailand to get married. At that stage the King was a healthy, well muscled, fit horse. The King raced at […]
Once upon a time Doomben was one of the best wet weather tracks in Australia. It used to dry quickly and be raceable when other tracks couldn’t, and only sustained heavy rainfall over consecutive days would see a meeting called off. These days however it is nothing but a slush pit. On Saturday Eagle Farm, […]
A horse named Steel Prince died on the track at Eagle Farm yesterday. His death happened 200m from the winning post, on the first lap of a 2 lap race. The horse suddenly faltered, then suddenly veered sharp left toward the outside fence. It’s jockey Nash Rawiller fell off. Steel Prince headed sideways toward the […]
Nothing should surprise you anymore when it comes to racing integrity in QLD under the watch of Chief Steward Chadwick, but still for us true believers they do. A ten race TAB card was run at Rockhampton last Thursday. It was the only meeting on in Queensland that day. Rockhampton is renowned as a hotbed […]
A month ago we warned you that the fix was in against ‘Clip Clop’ Kevin Seymour, and that his Grant ‘Moses’ Dixon trained wonder colt Leap To Fame risked being denied one of the two invitational spots for 3YO’s to run in the Rising Sun for political reasons. Well guess what? We were right. The […]
Jockey Alex Patis rode in races 2 and 4 at Toowoomba on Saturday night. Then, for reasons not described in the Stewards Report, was unable to ride in race 6. No other rider was available to take her mount on Ms Minelli in that race – or so we are told – and as a […]
At this moment in time the Doomben track for Cup day is rated a Heavy 8. People who have walked it this morning suggest that it is a whole lot worse. The sky is enveloped by clouds, and it’s pissing down rain. All week the BOM said it was going to. Why the hell haven’t […]
You all know about Chainsaw Yole, the Tasmanian trot trainer who regularly turns out more than half the runners on the card at meetings down there. Well Queensland, bugger Ben Yole. We’ve got our own big numbers trainer up here near the Isa, and she is a whole lot nicer than Chainsaw too. Tanya Parry […]
Queensland’s racing stewards are the finest in the world. They employ their resources well too. In Your Element was the horse we told you about earlier in the week that missed the start by a dozen lengths, caught up to the field, circled them and won. Our boys and girls in the QRIC badges looked […]
Ray Hadley did a segment about the eviction of Danny Bougoure from Eagle Farm on his morning radio show yesterday, and described it as an absolute disgrace. For legal reasons I am unable to describe Ray’s comments in full, but you can listen to them yourself if you wish to on the 2GB website. It […]
