Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Boulia is the arse end of the earth. No-one except council, railway or government workers live there, and no-one wants to. It’s a shit hole. The only thing it’s got going for it is the Min Min Lights, but you can park down the road and see them so why would you bother driving into […]
You have to hand it to Racing Queensland. It’s the master of massacring turnover. It takes raw genius to schedule a Townsville meeting on Easter Monday. I mean these southern slickers think they are smart putting on metro meetings at Warwick Farm and Flemington that everyone wants to bet on, because it’s their day off […]
On The Bit Racing is paid over a quarter of a million dollars from the public purse to broadcast racing. Racing Queensland provides the funds. The Deputy Commissioner of the QRIC advises that On The Bit Racing was responsible for nominating David Reynolds for the Country Trainer of the Year Award, inviting him to awards […]
The two judges at yesterday’s Gladstone meeting were the club President Dave Weinhert, and club committee man David Thomsen. Under the Rules of Racing race day judges are engaged and employed by Racing Queensland or the QRIC. Both are Government bodies, and as such must advertise all employment vacancies, even casual ones. There are reasons […]
The Gladstone race meeting in Queensland was a five race card carrying $61 500 in prizemoney, including QTIS bonuses. It should never have been held at all. The whole thing was a scam. Racing Queensland guidelines specify that a race has to have five acceptors to proceed. If it does not, then the race is […]
It’s Easter this long weekend, and most people in Queensland have four days off. Racing Queensland has scheduled no race meetings on Good Friday, 11 race meetings on Easter Saturday, 1 on Easter Sunday, and 2 on the Monday public holiday. Call me the voice of reason and common sense (it would be a first), […]
You don’t have to be Einstein to work it out do you? Queensland is running 11 race meetings next Saturday, all bar two – Gatton and Toowoomba – all at times too close and tracks too far away to allow jockeys to ride at more than one. NSW has 6 meetings. Victoria has 4. Western […]
Some like my mate Gold Coast Greg say that Queensland has a desperate shortage of jockeys. I say that there are far too many race meetings run on a Saturday to find enough jockeys for. We are both right at the same time. The solution is therefore many-fold. The scope of the problem is clearly […]
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 […]
