Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Isn’t this a wonderful look? Racing QLD Racing Operations Manager Ross Gove and the chief Handicapper Nathan Bourke in the members area on the piss with friends at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Meanwhile both of them missed the major handicapping error that occurred at Townsville the next day. Perhaps if they paid more attention to […]
Twenty minutes after our story about the major handicapping error in race 4 at Townsville today was published, QRIC issued the above tweet on its official X account acknowledging the mistake and advising punters who hadn’t already read it here that it had happened. A few minutes later the tweet disappeared, presumably having been removed […]
See the ratings of the horse Smart Mission in the screenshot above taken from the Racing Australia (RISA) website above? Smart Mission has dropped 11 ratings points after its last start 5th at Mackay. Horses don’t drop eleven points after a loss. They drop one. Racing QLD have made a serious error here. As a […]
Earlier in the week we wrote an article rubbishing Racing QLD’s decision to defer Wednesday’s scheduled race meeting at Ipswich by 24 hours until today, and suggested that the meeting was little chance of going ahead. Well thankfully RQ was right and we were wrong, for here we are racing on a Heavy 9 track […]
The problems with the Callaghan Park, Rockhampton track clearly continue. At 8.08am this morning the track condition was published on the Racing Australia website (RISA) as being a Good 4, which is what you would expect given that it hasn’t rained a drop in Rocky all week, the sun is shining brightly and it’s 25 […]
