Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 2: ELDERS QTIS MAIDEN PLATE 1200m Jockey R. McMahon was permitted to ride HEAVEN’S HIGH 3kg overweight with no other riders available. That’s from the Stewards report from Blackall on the weekend. Three kilos is rather a lot for a horse to be ridden overweight, far more than would be allowed in any other […]
Racing Queensland published the wrong race times for the Thangool meeting yesterday. Someone stuffed up and listed them in daylight saving time. Queensland doesn’t have daylight saving. It operates on Eastern Daylight Time, which is where the clock runs normal, not an hour ahead. Of course no-one from either RQ or the QRIC double checked […]
That Queensland has a severe shortage of jockeys is well known to all by now. All except the people whose job it is to know, they being Racing Queensland and the QRIC. There are never more than about 6 or 7 jocks that ride at Mt Isa. So RQ schedule a race with 12 declared […]
Abandoned race meetings in South East Queensland could be a thing of the past as Racing Queensland looks to implement an all-weather track procedure from October. The recent construction of a Polytrack circuit at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club would allow abandoned turf meetings in SEQ to be transferred to the synthetic “after considering the […]
There are two TAB thoroughbred meetings being run this week in Central Queensland. One is on Tuesday at Mackay, the other is on Friday at Rockhampton. Both are provincial race meetings. They each carry the same prizemoney. But there is one big difference, and it is an absolutely inexplicable one. The Rockhampton meeting is restricted […]
As you can see there was a massive crowd today at Chinchilla. These Monday meetings in the bush are a great idea from a public spectacle point of view aren’t they? I will tell you what though, they go good from a turnover perspective when there is nothing else on. Each race is holding about […]
What you see above is the Stewards Report for the race meeting at Mingenew last Saturday, as published on the Racing Queensland website. There are two slight problems. The meeting was abandoned is one. The other? Mingenew is in Western Australia. Aren’t the people in charge of Queensland racing brilliant? God help us all. https://www.racingqueensland.com.au/racing/full-calendar/thoroughbred/meeting/mnew/20220312/stewards-report
What you see in the picture are the contracts that Racing Queensland entered into just before Xmas to buy $5 million worth of ready grown grass from a turf farm at Wamuran, just near the Caboolture Sports Club, a half hour north of Brisbane. Five million dollars worth of turf? What the heck? Why would […]
