Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dear Peter Profit SAT 19 SEP TAB Eagle Farm Aquis Park Gold Coast NON-TAB Winton Talwood Sportsbet Gladstone Morven Gympie Atherton How are RQ able to put on only 2 TAB Metro and 6 Non-Tab meetings on Saturday What has happened to their Provincial and Country TAB meetings especially since Toowoomba is not on this […]
Now Racing QLD Chairman in absentia Matthew McGrath, who lives in Cronulla, submission to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into the proposed sale of Rosehill Racecourse makes for interesting reading. First the former Australian Turf Club (ATC) Chairman refers to 6-time Group 1 winner and idol of the Australian turf Chautauqua as Chatacqua, which is bit […]
The QLD Thoroughbred Racing Awards is racing’s night of nights celebrating the highest achievers in the State’s number 1 racing code and revenue attracting four-legged sport. There are nine board members of Racing QLD. Guess how many of them turned up at the awards? Three. The NSW based Chairman who came up for the night […]
I like a number of other punters on the weekend got the first three legs of the Eagle Farm quaddie right, and had the top three of Tony Gollan’s four runners going for a good collect in the last. The one Gollan horse that we/I left out was the 40-1 shot Millane, not just because […]
Tanya Parry trainer 18 of the 31 runners yesterday on the 5 race McKinlay card. Shryn Royes trained another 5. The remaining 8 starters were prepared by Ray Hermann (3), Mark Oates (3) and Kerry Krogh (2). Five trainers. $50 000 prizemoney plus $7500 in QTIC bonuses. More thousands in subsidies. And absolutely zero by […]
Nathan Trigg is a vert knowledgeable greyhound participant and unabashed supporter of a turn-track at Bundaberg, which posits him as an opponent to the RQ proposed straight track only model in the regional city. Reproduced below is a letter Trigg sent to the Chairman of the Board explaining the views of he and the industry […]
Turaroi Tokoma, the slave without the shirt. My kids great-great grandfather. My wife’s great-grandfather – my children’s ancestor – was a slave, stolen from his island home in the waters between the Solomon Islands and PNG, and taken thousands of miles away to labour for white men without wages and at the threat of whipping […]
Hi Archie, I reckon we can make it odds on that whoever gets the integrity job will have an alignment with Board Chairman and overnight greyhound industry expert Matt McGrath. You may have a differing view, but IMO governance and independence are worth keeping a very close eye on wherever McGrath is involved. Might be […]
Racing QLD, and as a consequence Racing Information Services Australia (RISA), had jockey Matthew Chadwick as claiming a kilo and a half on Lets Do It Again in the 4th at the Gold Coast on Saturday when the fields went up. Chadwick, for a long time one of Hong Kong’s leading riders, hasn’t had a […]
Keith From Queensland, who was watching the Channel 7 coverage of ID26 because he bought a huge flash TV with a recent win and was too pissed to drive to the TAB, rang me several times on Saturday night, often disturbing me mid stroke to another sling for a bet root* by asking “Who is […]
