Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing Queensland’s annual report released last week reveals that turnover on thoroughbred racing declined by $500 million over the past 12 months, with code revenue for the gallops falling by $26 million for the year. Despite the reduced income the thoroughbred code still managed to return a profit after expenses of $13.5 on TAB meetings, […]
Three cheers to the track staff at the Gold Coast who took over from the ‘guru of grass’ Nevesh Ramdhani. They’ve done a great job to get the turf track fixed and back up and firing. It played fair all day. The times were fast. Every horse had an even chance. No-one slipped or slid. […]
New amendments to the local rules of greyhound racing introduced yesterday by Racing Queensland have made owning a dishlicker a whole lot more difficult than it was the day before. The new rules place a strict onus on owners to rehome their greyhound, or to cause the greyhound to be rehomed to an appropriate home, […]
Not exactly sure where the frogs are but I presume they live in the brick pit pond, where the water is. The brick pit is an excavation about a 100m drop below the surrounding land, the brick pit walk is an elevated walk that goes out over space across the pit. Access to the pit […]
The picture you see at the top of this story is the aerial view of the Brickpit at Homebush, one of the options that was revealed for the site a new Western Sydney racecourse should Rosehill be sold. The Brickpit is home to the green and golden bell frog, a threatened species that is listed […]
Thousands of racehorse owners all over the State were besieged with emails from Racing Queensland last night confirming their horse’s acceptance to run in upcoming races. The problem was that they would have needed a time travel machine to watch them race, because the races they had accepted for were run as far back as […]
In 2019 the Charters Towers Jockey Club was granted $275 000 by Racing Queensland for a track upgrade, and the next year it received a further $175 000 to the irrigation, a total of $450 000. The track was supposed to be completed by mid-2021, however it wasn’t and the meeting scheduled to be run […]
Acting QRIC Commissioner Malcolm Letts, a man without a clue It was like a tale of two cities when the Racing Queensland and QRIC bosses appeared at the Budget Estimates Committee to answer questions from the politicians this week. RQ CEO Jason Scott was totally across his portfolio, answering questions all the hard questions about […]
As we foreshadowed in our Tips and Rumors column yesterday, the General Manager of the Albany Turf Club Mark Bayliss (pictured) has been charged by police with gaining a benefit by fraud and attempting to gain a benefit for another by fraud. The offences are believed to relate to his employment at the race club. […]
One of the key recommendations contained in the yet to be public released report of the review into QRIC’s operations is that responsibility for the Greyhounds Adopotion Program (GAP) should be transferred away from QRIC and over to the control of Racing Queensland. The Government is set to adopt the recommendation and make the move. […]
