Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
So if, as the QRIC so publicly state, the former State champion Benjamin Mark Currie is not a fit and proper person to hold either a trainer or strapper’s license in Queensland, why does Racing Queensland continue to prominently display his image on it’s website? Either Ben is totally unfit to participate in the sport […]
I wonder what JT thinks about naming a big race after the family who stole the Rockhampton people’s land, and kept black slaves? I wonder what GI thinks? Or Hodgo? I suspect that they all think the same. Why don’t we name the next race the Invasion Day Stakes? Or perhaps even the Cullin-la-ringo Massacre […]
I wonder what happened to the black boy? I wonder what his name was? I wonder how old he was? I wonder if he had sisters and brothers? I wonder why the Archer’s stole him as a slave? I wonder why they didn’t pay him? I wonder why they didn’t take a white boy? I […]
Dear Bentleys I note with huge disappointment that your firm has become a naming sponsor of a new horse race at Rockhampton named the Archer. I am the author of a popular racing website, and have become aware that the family that the race is named after were involved in the dispossession of indigenous Australians […]
Uncle Milty was up in Port Douglas yesterday. He parked his bike with the I Love Straddie sticker on Macrossan Street, outside the entrance to the Nautilus restaurant. People said he was here to meet with Uncle Errol from Edge Hill about the Captain Cook statue takedown campaign, but it’s not true. The great man […]
The great problem with modern racing administrators is that they don’t know Australian history, or when it comes to black history – the real history of our land – they seek to deny it anyway. Those who run racing glorify black dispossession, murder and slavery instead. The more things change, the more they stay the […]
Dear Peter Profit As you may be aware, I have spent the weekend here on the island of Minjerribah with the internationally renowned human rights consultant Dr Sai-Coe, workshopping ideas for the campaign to change the name back from the colonial imposed Stradbroke Island to its traditional name, to raise the public profile of our […]
Trying to understand how any highly paid web designer could come up with the idea of creating a scrambled egg of website like Racing Queensland’s is a huge struggle. No, it’s impossible. What brain surgeon of the IT world could possibly look on at the RQ site and proudly pronounce to world “I did this? […]
There is something rather curious about the 2020/21 annual report and financial accounts of the Cairns Jockey Club. Well a few things really. The first is that some directors of the club – namely Greg Stanton and Scott Carpenter – provide in kind (i.e. free) professional services to the club in their field of calling, […]
The Rockhampton Jockey Club has transferred it’s race meeting scheduled for Friday week back to the Monday, after the club advised Racing Queensland that that it will not be in a position to host the meeting on December 17 due to resourcing complications associated with COVID-19 vaccinations. This resourcing complication is rather simple. The club […]
