Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
To qualify for a run in the Battle of the Bush qualifiers a horse has to have raced in Queensland at one of the nominated country tracks five times in the previous 12 months. So what’s Brett Cavanough’s NSW galloper Burdekin doing in there among the nominations for the qualifier at Barcaldine this weeked? It’s […]
Once upon a time the jockeys who rode in central Queensland lived in central QLD, but a combination of cheap air fares and a diminishing pool of riders in the country changed all that. Now days a large bulk of the jockeys riding in the region are mercenaries from Brisbane or one of the coasts, […]
The expression to be Puckeridged has become a popularly adopted phrase in QLD racing circles to describe things that have been stuffed up, in particular but not limited to race tracks. Named – fairly or unfairly – after Racing QLD’s Senior Track and Racecourse Manager Greg Puckeridge, the term gained wide currency in the wake […]
The hot mail circulating around Eagle Farm yesterday was that the night meeting under lights at the Gold Coast in three week’s time is dead, buried and cremated. There is not a hope in hell that the track will be fit and ready to race they say, and they will be calling it off this […]
The Gold Coast Turf Club’s last scheduled grass track card before the inaugural $1 million Magic Millions race meeting under lights has been bumped to the poly track too, meaning that there will be no races run on turf prior to the big night. If of course the grass track is in a sufficiently raceworthy […]
Some wag wrote in an suggested that the Gold Coast Turf Club adopt this Milli Vanilli tune as the theme song for their new track. It’s just a shame that Nevesh Ramdhani’s not around any more to sing it. Perhaps club chairman Steve Lines and Racing QLD CEO Jason Scott might do a duet.
The much mooted shake-up of the Racing QLD board hasn’t happened, with the only change being that Gold Coast business identity Rebecca Frizelle – the co-owner of the Gold Coast Titans and sister of Hedley Thomas, author and creator of the award winning investigative podcast The Teacher’s Pet – has replaced Mackay business identity Sharon […]
Trainer Kevin Kemp copped one on the chin for entering his galloper Denman Blue into a heat of the Burnett to Beach series in which it wasn’t qualified to compete. Racing QLD missed it’s ineligibity completely, and allowed it to run. Someone later noticed, and dobbed Kemp and his horse in. It was disqualified from […]
No wonder they couldn’t afford to build Norwell!!! So Redcliffe is getting new lights, sounds good to me, (I am going to move there!) but at a price tag of $6m?? Seriously for just lights? https://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=65009 2 odd years ago Melton got new lights and remodelled their infield to make it a multipurpose venue at […]
A number of Queensland jockeys are known to be very upset about the late cancellation of the meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, in circumstances where the weather forecast showed very early in the day that increasingly heavy rainfall would almost certainly render the troubled track at Caloundra unsafe to race. It has been raining […]
