Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
RQ is awaiting endorsement from Reconciliation Australia on its latest Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan. RQ’s Innovate RAP seeks to embed the knowledge and learning gained from its inaugural Reflect RAP including its vision for reconciliation to create a future where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people connect with local communities through great racing events across […]
Global Turf Solutions (GTS) is the company that was awarded the lucrative $593 189.95 contract to remediate the Charleville race track. It was an extremely odd choice by Racing Queensland. GTS is a company that as is name suggests specialises in constructing grass and turf surfaces. I know the Charleville course well, for it is […]
I guess you know now what our huge concern about Albion Park naming cocktails after roots was. The bloke who introduced them – the CEO – is on rape charges. You might as well just put a red light on the front gates. Fuck me dead. Pardon the highly improper pun. I wonder if they […]
Brendan Parnell is the CEO of Racing Queensland. He doesn’t have a clue about keeping country race tracks safe. But he sure does know how to use a shovel to his own advatage. Pins earns $578 000 a year for having tracks fail under his watch, $15 000 more than he did in the year […]
In the course of writing my previous story that was highly critical of the Rockhampton Jockey Club gifting an alcoholic who was convicted of killing a woman while driving blind drunk, and who had a history of becoming violently aggressive when intoxicated (did I mention that?) a bottle of wine to celebrate his arrival by […]
Trainer Frankie Stockdale is a recovering alcoholic. There is no cure for alcoholism. Abstinence is the only answer. Stockdale knows it better than anyone. Two weeks prior to Xmas in 1999 he jumped in his car at 3.30am after an all night and into the morning booze session and drove home, or tried to anyway. […]
Twin Hills (Fri-Sat) I think it’s because I like sex more than somewhat, but whenever I hear the name Twin Hills I think of Maggie’s boobs, and when they run a double header the imaginations starts running away from me if I don’t pull it back quick (oops, gave myself up), so we will concentrate […]
The famous writer Mark Twain was famously reported as being dead long before he actually was. Trommelschlagen was too, by us. We were wrong thankfully. The 8-year-old is alive and well. He was only beaten by the literal length of the straight at Morven because he got bumped at the start and then shortly thereafter […]
There hasn’t been a drop of rain in Ipswich in the past week and a half. Yet races can’t start from the 1666m chute, because the track is faulty and the surface is unsafe. We’ve said it before and we will say it again, there needs to be an official inquiry into where the $30 […]
I just wanna stay in the sun where I findI know it’s hard sometimesPieces of peace in the sun’s peace of mindI know it’s hard sometimes There were five riders at Mt Isa on Saturday, and there were only ever going to be five. A simple phone call could have confirmed that. So what does […]
