Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Poh Yuan Chin is on Racing Queensland’s Noms Exclusion List – Thoroughbred He owes the QLD Principal Racing Authority $30 594.87. That’s interesting because Poh Yuan Chin is the principal shareholder of a company named Imperial Bloodstock and Racing, which is a major shareholder in harness race horses as part of a syndicate also involving […]
Racing Queensland has spent $44 million building the State’s new greyhound complex the Q. Somehow it appears there wasn’t enough cash left to buy a set of scales that work. Weight is an integral factor in greyhound racing. Under the rules every greyhound competing at a race meeting must be weighed, and the stewards must […]
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 […]
