Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
As regular readers of this site will know, we – inspired by the passionate advocate for overseas apprentices Gold Coast Greg – have long championed the cause of bringing talented and committed young Asian apprentices to QLD. It is working in New Zealand, and it will work here, just as it has before back in […]
I remembers when Doomben used to be one of the best wet weather tracks in Australia. You could dump massive amounts of rain on it during the week and it would still pick up and race on the weekend. Not anymore. According to the BOM readings from the airport across the road Doomben 65.8 mm […]
Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre* *NOTE – Review Chair Graham Quirk was not involved in reviewing the Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre due to his role on the Board of Racing Queensland, which owns the Albion Park Raceway site. The new Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre venue is proposed to be a 12-court, high performance, community and para-sport […]
Dear RQ Did you know that a racehorse from QLD has won more races than any other galloper in the history of Australian racing? The horse’s name is Passion Moon, and between 1955 and 1969 it won somewhere between 109 and 119 races on QLD tracks, and received acclaim around the world? I didn’t know […]
Former champion North Queensland jockey Ian Toward has called in to tell us that we and the ABC are wrong about Fabs Cowboy equaling the record for most wins by a horse in the State when the great bush galloper racked up his 52nd race victory last week at Mt Isa. According to the man […]
The st0ry being cast about regarding the horrible state of the Gold Coast track on Saturday is that a mistake was made whereby not enough water was placed on the course proper in the days leading into the meeting, resulting in the problems that the turf surface displayed on the day. Quite frankly I reckon […]
We have been telling you since December that the Gold Coast track is Friar Tucked. It gives us no pleasure at all to be proven right. How does a brad new multi-million dollar track throw up like this? Because it hasn’t constructed properly and is rooted, that’s how. The track looked like a cow paddock, […]
Finally after all these years, a decade or more after everyone else did, Racing QLD has introduced a computer package that stores licensees training records online. Being so far behind the times is hardly cause for applause in usual circumstances, but RQ CEO Jason Scott deserves a clap for finally rectifying the inactions of his […]
New Zealand Racing has a specialized program to attract overseas apprentice riders to come over to live there and learn their trade by riding in the country. A prospective apprentice must have achieved a score of 5.5 on their International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam, which is compulsory to sit and means that they […]
Some wags who were watching the Cairns races with me yesterday are saying that the inquiry into the incident after the 9th race is about how the Racing Queensland website has Fanciful Mr Fox being ridden by Graham Kliese and finishing 5th, when we all saw that is was actually Lacey Morrison who booted the […]
