Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In a timely move that is to be commended, Racing Queensland has opened up the purse strings to provide gallops, harness and greyhound trainers with a one-off payment to help them through the clean ups and repairs from last week’s floods. Harness and gallops trainers with 1-6 horses in work are eligible for a $350 […]
For some time now we have been highlighting the absolute inadequacy of On The Bit Racing in priv, and the controversially formed private company’s total unfitness to continue to hold the highly paid Racing Queensland contract to do so. Week after week, month after month, lovers of country racing have been slapped in the face […]
David Reynolds (above), alleged criminal on bail, posing for the official photographer at the Queensland Country Racing Awards in Emerald a month ago.
For the second day in a row a race meeting on the indestructible ‘all weather’ poly track at the Sunshine Coast has been abandoned due to the weather and the state of the track. When Racing Queensland paid the Martin Collins company nearly $10 to build the poly track we were told that we would […]
John ‘Lucky’ Lingard is the best writer in racing. Pam O’Neill is every woman in racing’s hero. Both of them are people I am very proud to call my good mates. Lucky says that Queen Pammy should be on the board of Racing Queensland. I totally agree. As Bob Hawke once said, anyone who doesn’t […]
On The Bit Racing is being paid circa half a million dollars a year – at least – by Racing Queensland to provide country racing fans with live vision of non-TAB races. This is what you get for your cash. It is race two at Dalby yesterday. That’s value for money isn’t it? Not. Hey, […]
They would have to be kidding wouldn’t they? Charging race fans who can’t get to Emerald for the ceremony $22.19 to watch a live stream of the Queensland Country Racing Awards. These people are rorters. They are being sponsored to the tune of a large sum of money generously donated by Ladrokes. A number of […]
A couple of days ago we wrote an article in which we were critical of the Towers Jockey Club (TJC) about what we (seemingly wrongly) believed was their failure to fix the race track in the town in time to hold its scheduled race meeting in the first week in March. The club’s hard working […]
Some things that Racing Queensland do just leave you shaking your head and asking yourself “what the hell were they thinking?” For reasons unable to be discussed, the publication of this 3 page feature spread in the last edition of Race Magazine (the old racing calendar) is one of those things. What were they thinking? […]
