Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
North Queenslanders are up in arms about the perceived – and perhaps actual – lack of care and attention being paid to gallops racing outside of the big city. First we’ve had the heavy track on sand on a dry sunny day debacle at Charleville. Then we had Townsville training track closure chaos. All the […]
Townsville based trainers are up in arms at being told without notice this week that the training track at Cluden Park is being closed down forthwith for repairs and reconstruction work, leaving around 160 horses without a surface to be worked or prepared on. The word is that during the close down the trainers have […]
More than a million dollars has been spent on upgrading the Charleville racetrack in recent years, all of it seemingly to little avail based on the condition of the track at Sunday’s 1st meeting back at the course after an absence of racing for 2 years. Despite all that money thrown at the bush track, […]
We have made a new discovery. On the 1st of April 2022 a contract with a value of $384 100 was awarded to a Mango Hill (near Caboolture) based company named Project Pumps and Irrigation for the supply of irrigation materials to the Central Warrego Race Club, which is the Charleville club. No-one has mentioned […]
So yet another race meeting is cancelled at Ipswich on what was a fine, dry Spring day, after 14 days of brilliant weather with just 1mm of rain recorded across the fortnight. https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=40875&list=rb The stated reason is that certain parts of the track were unsafe t0 race on. But how could it be, and why? […]
2023 TAB Thoroughbred Awards Finalists Queensland Horse of the Year Kovalica Skirt The Law Uncommon James Tip: Uncommon James George Moore Queensland Jockey of the Year Ryan Maloney James Orman Ben Thompson Ryan Wiggins Tip: James Orman Ken Russell Queensland Apprentice of the Year Angela Jones Emily Lang Jaden Lloyd Bailey Wheeler Tip: Angela Jones […]
There is something wrong with this picture isn’t there? A couple of things in fact. One is that Queensland is running far too many meetings on a Saturday, a ridiculous number in fact. It’s the reason that the prizemoney up here is so far below Sydney and Melbourne, because we are spreading it too thin. […]
In March 1895, Goldsbrough Mort & Co employed the notorious Jack Watson to manage the station.[5] Watson had such a “bad name among the blacks” that the Aboriginal people used as cheap labour on the station had all run away. Even his own “blackboy” servant named Pompey had cleared out. When Watson later heard that Pompey had been killed, he […]
There were 6 jockeys riding at Mt Isa today. Racing Queensland programmed races with fields of up to 10 starters. Six jocks can’t ride 10 horses at once, so of course you know what happened. Eight declared runners were late scratched because there was no-one to ride them. Other horses were permitted to be ridden […]
QCAT documents, seen by Racenet, reveal the case was quietly finalised, with the tribunal also setting aside one of Heathcote’s three charges. “Robert Heathcote shall not publicise the subject matter of the case in the media, and, in particular, not make any disparaging comment about (QRIC) concerning the matter,” the QCAT decision reads. Rob Heathcote […]
