Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Some like my mate Gold Coast Greg say that Queensland has a desperate shortage of jockeys. I say that there are far too many race meetings run on a Saturday to find enough jockeys for. We are both right at the same time. The solution is therefore many-fold. The scope of the problem is clearly […]
Some horses just love certain tracks. Luthers Luck loved Sandown, and won a million races there in the 1980’s. Zipping adored the god forsaken joint too. Chief De Beers and Doomben went hand in glove, and he couldn’t win anywhere else. Remember Mary’s not a name you’d usually put alongside those three top liners, but […]
Racing Queensland published the wrong race times for the Thangool meeting yesterday. Someone stuffed up and listed them in daylight saving time. Queensland doesn’t have daylight saving. It operates on Eastern Daylight Time, which is where the clock runs normal, not an hour ahead. Of course no-one from either RQ or the QRIC double checked […]
This is the replay of race 2 at Mount Isa today, courtesy of On The Bit Racing, the outfit that gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privilege. Aren’t we getting great value for our large dollops of money. My seven-year-old grand-daughter in going to tender for the next contract. If they decide […]
We have been writing for some time now about the terrible standard of Stewarding in Central Queensland since Ben Cooke assumed the Chief Steward role in December last year, and we have been doing so not because we hold any beef against the chief – we don’t – but simply because what we are saying […]
This steer here by Brad Pengelly on the horse that starts the replay in 3rd last place in the red and white was the hottest ride in the world. If Pengelly didn’t hook this then I am Mick Dittman. Watch it side on first. Now have a look at the head on. Do you see […]
There are a number of punters blowing up about the way the last race at Doomben yesterday was run, and claiming that two of the three Gollan trained runners set it for the third, the winner Ulysses. The claim is that Rock Amore and Academy deliberately went forward and put on the pace so that […]
What the hell is a VIT? How come one of them is on the Steward’s Panel? Why is that person Brad Tamer, the Head of Customer Experience at the QLD branch of the TAB, and its number 3 man? Isn’t having a bookie as a Steward somewhat more than a little bit off? And rather […]
Queensland horse trainer David Reynolds, who is facing a number of criminal charges for serious offences, has had his appeal against the suspension of his license dismissed on internal review by the QRIC. It is the right decision. What is of huge concern is that Reynolds has reportedly been telling people that it his intention […]
Queensland’s thoroughbred Chief Steward Peter Chadwick doesn’t seem to know which way is up. The official Steward’s Report states clearly that jockey Nathan Day was disqualified for 9 months in relation to the ‘incident’ that occurred at Callaghan Park involving the Clerk of the Scales. Disqualification means that Day cannot participate in the racing industry […]
