Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Usually Racing QLD notify the public when meetings are transferred to different tracks. It seems that on Saturday they didn’t. A company named Regional Cast – that was formed just months before it won the rich annual six-figure contract for the job, despite the seeming absence of any open tender – is Racing QLD’s official […]
What sort of rubbish is this? Albion Park’s fields for Saturday are declared on the national harness racing website relied upon by punters. And in the 1st race leading reinsdude Nathan Dawson is driving three. Gee that’s helpful isn’t it? About as helpful as Pete McMullen driving two in the same race. And harness racing […]
Why in this modern age of equality does Racing Queensland continue to practice sexism when it comes to promoting the sport? At a time when the leading trainers in NSW, Victoria and QLD are all women (Belinda McCarthy/Kerry Ann Morris, Emma Stewart and Chantal Turpin), and women are in the top 10 on every State […]
Week after week Regional Cast seems to find another way to let Queensland country racegoers down. This week is was filming the races at Hughenden from a thousand miles away without a zoom lens, and not filming the races at Clermont near the thriving town of Moranbah at all. I guess the latter was a […]
The Rockhampton Jockey Club completed construction of 2 on-course horse stabling complexes last year. These stables were built with money provided courtesy of a Racing Queensland grant. It is rumored that the successful tender bidder for the project submitted their quote about a week after the tenders had closed. The whisper is that the winning […]
The Dubai World Cup tour crew You might remember the whisper we related last week about former Racing QLD CEO Brendan Parnell writing to the Cairns Jockey Club demanding to withhold the club’s funding if club supremo Tom Hedley wasn’t removed from his duly and lawfully democratically elected role as President. Well thanks to a […]
See the bloke in the Arthur Dunger hat and the Rabbitohs jersey? He is the contractor for Regional Cast who was recording the delayed vision of the Mt Garnet meeting on the weekend. Since when are non-QRIC officials allowed in the Stewards tower? How can the Steward see the race properly when the horses are […]
13 November 2022 Regional Cast has been appointed as Queensland’s Non-TAB racing vision provider for the next two years. The agreement will see more than 200 non-TAB meetings – incorporating 98 clubs – shown in their entirety. All non-TAB race meetings in Queensland will be available free and on-demand, showcased via a dedicated live channel, […]
Regional Cast is a company owned by Emerald businessman Neale Parry. Parry is a former or current publican, security company owner, laundry proprietor, bottle shop licensee, sports shop owner, and motelier. We have been unable to identify any previous experience or expertise that he has in the area of broadcasting horse races, or broadcasting anything […]
Julia Creek based trainer Tanya Parry is lauded by Racing Queensland as the savior of racing in the far north-west of the State. She probably is too. But if Parry is, then I don’t reckon racing up there is worth saving. I went back a year to see where Tanya Parry’s horses that raced on […]
