Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Annual Flu vaccinations Because the COVID ones are just a big pharma con and scam, and don’t actually work. Bi-annual onsite Corporate Massages I myself would prefer a straight one, but whatever floats your boat. Actually, no I wouldn’t. I’ve been following the Jeffrey Epstein trial. Massages in the workplace are pervy and totally inappropriate. […]
The quest for the wagering dollar never stops. On Friday morning the body of popular jockey young lost jockey Chris Caserta was found in the Gold Coast surf. Just hours later the first race at Ipswich jumped, a field full of maiden gallopers ridden by grieving riders the same age or younger as their friend […]
Brendan ‘Pins’ Parnell is the CEO of Racing Queensland, the control body for harness racing in the Sunshine State. He is paid more than half a million dollars a year in the role. Uncle Shank is a young pacer. 18 months ago he was the subject of a high profile (in the industry) controversy over […]
The feature piece on apprentice rider Alisha Ross that you see in the photo at the top is published in the December edition of Race Magazine, the Racing Queensland publication that we old timers used to know as the calendar. There is a slight problem with the timing. Two months ago at the start of […]
Synthetic race tracks have been tried and failed before in the Sunshine State, on more than one occasion. No-one wants them, and even fewer want to race on them. That didn’t stop the gurus from Racing Queensland spending $9 million to build another one, success never having been a key performance indicator for government desk […]
This is the full list of scratchings for the Brisbane metropolitan meeting transferred to the synthetic track at the Sunshine Coast today because of the rain. Do you reckon Racing Queensland still think that its new wet weather meeting transfer policy is a winner? As long as it generates some betting turnover, probably. Not many […]
