Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Can anyone explain how the handicapper gave Transatlantic the wrong weight in a million dollar race? It’s not as if the horse had won recently and had to be re-handicapped. It hadn’t raced since December. Fortunately the handicapping error was picked up and corrected. It turned out that that due to an oversight by the […]
We all accept that accidents happen in life, but in a multi-billion dollar industry like racing it is incumbent on those who hold race meetings to have in place contingency arrangements in case of things such as the failure of essential equipment required for race days. Equipment like operational and fully functioning barrier stalls. Somewhat […]
Two days before the Darren Ebert run Redcliffe Standardbred Yearling Sale earlier this month, Racing Queensland pulled its funding for the $104 000 sales race series final and associated auction linked races. No reason was given by RQ for its last minute jump from the ship, but it only took 48 hours for it to […]
This photo of Phar Lap with Gerald Telford, the son of trainer Harry Telford sitting on his back, was shot in 1931 on a property at Bacchus Marsh. It was taken just prior to the great horse’s ill-fated trip to North America in November, 1931, and is held in the Museum Victoria Collections. What a […]
The notice you see at the top was published on the Racing QLD website on Saturday. Brisbane Racing Club’s meeting scheduled for that day was abandoned. An abandoned meeting means exactly that. The meeting is gone, forgotten, never to be seen again. Abandoned meetings can’t be transferred. You can’t transfer something that no longer exists. […]
Apprentice Lesson 1 by Scrivo – How to Kiss a Cup Like a Striped Cod Shane Scriven landed plenty of winners in his riding days, and post-retirement from the saddle he has translated his skills to scoring free holidays away under the guise of work. The last time we Scrivo spotted was back in January […]
The Queensland Harness Centre at Norwell will become the new home for harness racing in the Sunshine State and will provide a world class facility that is designed with animal and human welfare as its highest priority. The Queensland Harness Centre at Norwell will feature a 1000-metre racetrack, with optionality to explore how a 1100m track […]
This reply by the publisher of the North West Weekly Matt Nicholls to suggestions that he be appointed to the Racing Queensland board show exactly why he should be, and is the right person for the job. For once Gary Gorrie and I agree on something. Article courtesy of John Lingard at his as ever […]
Capalaba – Queensland’s new 366m duck racing track The Capalaba Greyhound Club has been drowned again by a big Brisbane storm, this time by Cyclone Alfred. It happens every time there are flooding rains in the Brisbane area, like it did in 2o22 and again in 2011 before that. On each of these occasions the […]
The cyclone has played havoc with the Queensland racing schedule. The dogs and trots are all off until Tuesday. Knowing how low lying Albion Park is it’s likely to go well underwater, which means we may not even race then. The gallops in the South-East corner are all off until next week too, with the […]
