Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
One of the basic duties of a race day Steward’s job is to check that horses have the right brand, are carrying the correct saddle cloth, and are wearing their notified gear. Brand marking XYZ123. Tick. Saddlecloth number 7. Tick. Blinkers. Oops, I forgot to check. That is what happened in race 7 at Toowoomba […]
Adam Hamilton raised an interesting point in his column this week on thetrots.com.au when he stated his belief that Kevin Seymour’s NSW Derby winner Leap To Fame was still at this stage only the 3rd best three-year-old in Australasia behind the Kiwi star Akuta and the Victorian based Catch a Wave. I thought I would […]
Personation is a legal term for pretending to be someone else, for the purpose of gaining a benefit for yourself or a related party, or to cause a detriment to another. An example of personation would be writing a letter or email under the name of another and pretending that you as author are them, […]
Toowoomba trainer Matt Boland hasn’t been seen at the track since January. He was seen at the QRIC offices a fortnight ago copping a $2000 fine for a positive swab to steroids (wtf?), but he seems to have no horses and to have left the game. If what we have been told about the fate […]
The half million dollar On The Bit Racing debacle continues apace. Despite the recently privatised outfit’s awful track record, and the decision of Racing Queensland to put its contract out for wide open tender, nothing has improved when it comes to OTBR’s highly paid but horrendously poor coverage of bush racing in the Sunshine State. […]
Today’s meeting scheduled for the Gold Coast has been moved to the dreaded and dreadful poly track at the Sunshine Coast. There are 8 races on the card. And 53 scratchings. That’s what we call a track that trainers want to race on. Others call it a $10 million white elephant.
For some time now we have been highlighting the absolute inadequacy of On The Bit Racing in priv, and the controversially formed private company’s total unfitness to continue to hold the highly paid Racing Queensland contract to do so. Week after week, month after month, lovers of country racing have been slapped in the face […]
Merimee winning at Doomben, looking like Bernborough Three and a half weeks ago the Chris Waller trained 3YO filly Merimee beat a good class field in a Saturday metropolitan race at Doomben, and looked liked Bernborough in doing it. Yesterday the now rating 70 filly stepped out again on the polytrack at the Sunshine Coast […]
Mal Charlton (right), with great mate and driver Steven Doherty. Rest in peace. I was very sad to hear of the passing this week of Mal Charlton, a much loved and highly respected member of the Queensland trotting community. I only had the pleasure of meeting Mal a couple of times over the years at […]
One of Queensland’s prominent racing and construction identities is defending allegations from companies associated with his sister that he deliberately shortchanged the Tax Office almost $15 million by setting up labour hire firms to take the fall. Helga Bennett is a director of two labour hire firms suing her older brother, Gerhardt “Hoss” Heinrich, and […]
