Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Archie Re your story about wins an extra ratings points. It is common for a horse to not get penalised for winning a set weights plate race when it is well in compared to its benchmark rating if it were to be a handicap race. Below rating of 68 there are full point increments and […]
Gitalong wins two races, one at Gladstone, the other at Roma. This bloke’s a rating 71 horse before either win. It doesn’t get any penalty or increase at all for the Gladstone win, and remains a rating 71. Then comes the Roma win and Gitalong goes up just two ratings points to 73. Compare that […]
Richmond is a rural town in north-west QLD, not that far from Mt Isa. The race club out there put on a five race meeting on the weekend. Jockeys who rode at it earned $1250 in fees, plus the chance of up to $1700 in commission on prizemoney won, which is not a bad earn […]
The bloke in the picture taken from an RQ piss up at the Derby meeting at Eagle Farm on Saturday afternoon is Shane Scriven, the former jockey who slaughtered Octagonal in the 1995 Victorian Derby. He weighed a lot less then. These days Scrivo is the apprentice training and mentoring boss at Racing QLD. One […]
