Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Brendan Parnell is the CEO of Racing Queensland. He doesn’t have a clue about keeping country race tracks safe. But he sure does know how to use a shovel to his own advatage. Pins earns $578 000 a year for having tracks fail under his watch, $15 000 more than he did in the year […]
In the course of writing my previous story that was highly critical of the Rockhampton Jockey Club gifting an alcoholic who was convicted of killing a woman while driving blind drunk, and who had a history of becoming violently aggressive when intoxicated (did I mention that?) a bottle of wine to celebrate his arrival by […]
Trainer Frankie Stockdale is a recovering alcoholic. There is no cure for alcoholism. Abstinence is the only answer. Stockdale knows it better than anyone. Two weeks prior to Xmas in 1999 he jumped in his car at 3.30am after an all night and into the morning booze session and drove home, or tried to anyway. […]
Twin Hills (Fri-Sat) I think it’s because I like sex more than somewhat, but whenever I hear the name Twin Hills I think of Maggie’s boobs, and when they run a double header the imaginations starts running away from me if I don’t pull it back quick (oops, gave myself up), so we will concentrate […]
The famous writer Mark Twain was famously reported as being dead long before he actually was. Trommelschlagen was too, by us. We were wrong thankfully. The 8-year-old is alive and well. He was only beaten by the literal length of the straight at Morven because he got bumped at the start and then shortly thereafter […]
There hasn’t been a drop of rain in Ipswich in the past week and a half. Yet races can’t start from the 1666m chute, because the track is faulty and the surface is unsafe. We’ve said it before and we will say it again, there needs to be an official inquiry into where the $30 […]
I just wanna stay in the sun where I findI know it’s hard sometimesPieces of peace in the sun’s peace of mindI know it’s hard sometimes There were five riders at Mt Isa on Saturday, and there were only ever going to be five. A simple phone call could have confirmed that. So what does […]
Racing Queensland have issued the statement above in relation to the tragic death of my mate Tracy Kunde. If you didn’t know the circumstances and you read this, you’d think Trace had topped himself. He didn’t. The big man died of a heart attack. Racing people spent half an hour trying to revive him, but […]
At 12.07 am the Ipswich track for today’s meeting was rated a Soft 5. There has been no rain in the past 24 hours, and just a quarter of an inch in the past week. That makes the Soft 5 rating somewhat strange, buy hey this is Ipswich. The skies are clear and the sun […]
Do you remember how last year the QLD Premier and Racing Minister promised us that reforms to the Racing Appeals system would be implemented in the first half of 2022? No more gaming the system on stays they said, we are going to be fair dinkum from hereon in. Oh yeah? Really? We are still […]
