Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In the space of just five years betting turnover on greyhound racing in Queensland has increased by 233%. In 2016 it was $600 million. Today it is $1.4 billion ($1 400 million). During the same period turnover on QLD harness racing has increased just 40%, from $500 million to $700 million. According to the figures […]
Extremely disturbing reports are floating in about a Queensland race horse trainer with a history of domestic violence order breaches who has been arrested by police and remanded in custody for alleged offences against another woman in the past week. The licensee is believed to be trainer who won a rich major provincial series final […]
The Second Coming It was great to see Ric McMahon back where he belongs riding at the metro tracks this week, even if it was just for one ride. Wasn’t it nice of the QRIC to give the former seasons 2006 and 2007 champion Brisbane apprentice his 3kg claim back after more than a decade […]
Why not? We’ve got them anyway, so we might as well just employ some who’d prefer to be paid in peanuts. What am I talking about? Are you a bit slow or something? Race two at Albion Park on Saturday night of course. Shane Graham – the bloke who escaped jail on criminal match fixing charges […]
By now you have read the stories I wrote about the orgy of whipping at Melton on Vicbred Super Series night, and are familiar with the tale of how leading senior driver David Moran belted the living crap out of two pacers in Group 1 races, won one and finished second, and only copped 2 […]
As we advised yesterday, there was only one swab attendant on duty across the two daytime meetings held in South-East Queensland on New Year’s Day. This attendant was originally rostered to work at the Gatton meeting, but was redeployed to Doomben when race day officials became aware that the main metropolitan meeting did not have […]
I am not sure if Voulait is the biggest racehorse in South-East Queensland, or if See For Yourself is the smallest, or both. All I know is that when they lined up against each other in the first at Toowoomba it was like David v Goliath. Quart Pot won. The bigger they are the harder […]
A rumour is swirling around that there were no swab attendants at the TAB meeting at Gatton in Queensland today. It seems that the senior race day official who a couple of weeks ago ordered an employee who was awaiting their COVID test result to come to work has been ordered to pull her head […]
FROM: The Handicapper RE: Prize Money Increases at Albion Park Trots SUBJECT: There Aren’t Any We are pleased to announce that Queensland owners will not have to pay either the additional 2.5% trainers commission being introduced on Saturday, or the 1% animal welfare levy. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you don’t […]
The State of Queensland was near COVID-free while the borders were closed. So we opened them. COVID was effectively contained when the State had strict and broad contact tracing. So we abandoned it. Polymerase chain reaction testing (PCR) is 100% effective. Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) is not. So we abandon PCR testing in favour of […]
