Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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. […]
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 […]
