Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The to nominate, accept and race in the $105 000 plus $30 000 Northern Jewels handicap being run at Townsville on Friday a horse has to be QTIS registered. The eligibility rule is plain and clear, written in black and white on the Racing Queensland website, and in the race calendar (Race Magazine) published by […]
Ray Hadley did a segment about the eviction of Danny Bougoure from Eagle Farm on his morning radio show yesterday, and described it as an absolute disgrace. For legal reasons I am unable to describe Ray’s comments in full, but you can listen to them yourself if you wish to on the 2GB website. It […]
On The Bit Racing are supporters of a trainer who allegedly commits crimes against women. One of the company’s sponsors supports the trainer too. Another of its sponsor bites people’s ear off. I guess none of this is any real surprise. After all, one of On The Bit’s owners is man partial to bashing innocents […]
The Trot Rods is a cracker. Just ask Racing Queensland’s spin doctor department, they will tell you. Every bastard wants to bet on a one lap pace race, they’d be mad not to. That’s why the turnover on the Rods is so high. Check this out if you don’t believe me. The QLD TAB turnover […]
When is the last time you saw 50 horses scratched from a meeting, when all of them could have got a run? You have today at the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, at the meeting moved to the poly track there from the Gold Coast due to the rain soaking the state’s south-east. There were 115 […]
I’m on a mission to dig up the truth You think we’re stupid and there’s no proof Well let me tell you that the time has come To pull the trigger on the smoking gun Lies lies lies lies lies lies lies I’m on a mission to bring out the facts You got your stories […]
Greyhound racing, most impressively, is now contributing almost a quarter of a million dollars in economic value to the State. Brendan ‘Pins’ Parnell, CEO Racing Queensland. Um, no Pins. $245 million is a quarter of billion mate, not 1/4 of a million. Do you want me to buy you a calculator for Xmas? Or would […]
This is the Stewards rear footage of the run down the back straight and the home straight in the first race at Ipswich yesterday. Tracks don’t throw up like this when it hasn’t rained for a week. Not properly constructed ones that cost a good part of $26 million. What the hell is going on […]
Four desk jockeys pose for the cameras dressed as builders, pretending to look like they know what they are doing You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear – ancient truism Over the past 3 years Racing Queensland has spent $26.4 million on redeveloping the long trouble plagued Ipswich racecourse. That’s a […]
Well I am buggered if I know why every good jockey in Australia doesn’t move to Mt Isa. After all, you get to ride 5 horse a week and earn a grand, live in the sort of suffocating heat that killed Burke and Wills, eat crap food and drink in pubs with bogans, live out […]
