Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A question has recently arisen about whether every greyhound trainer in QLD who employs staff are paying the requisite workers compensation premiums to ensure that these low paid workers are covered by insurance for lost wages, medical bills and possible disability payouts in the case of injury. The answer as far as we can ascertain […]
Finally, belatedly, Racing Queensland have decided to send its Senior Track and Development Manager Marty Synan – the so said ‘guru’ – up to Rockhampton to do the job the RJC said he was supposed to do the whole time, which is mentor their inexperienced new track curator Kent Lean, who was hurled into the […]
In our previous story we wrote that long serving track foreman Rob Burnell was mentoring the new Callaghan Park track manager Kent Lean. We based that on publicly available material, most of it published by the Rockhampton Jockey Club. Since then we have been informed that Rob Burnell resigned from his employment with the club […]
So the Rockhampton Jockey Club is once again blaming a sprinkler malfunction for the track being unsafe to race today for the Archer meeting. Yeah good. No doubt they will once again dive into the junk pile in the shed and pull out an old disused rusted valve like they did last time and blame […]
Today’s cancelled Archer meeting has been rescheduled to Tuesday. So what happens now? Do the trainers stay up in Rocky for two more days or go home? If they stay will Racing QLD or the race club pay their accommodation and expenses? Should they choose to fly home to attend to their stables and then […]
I am not blaming individuals on the Rocky Jockey Club track staff for the failure to prepare a race ready surface for today’s meeting, for they didn’t appoint themselves. But you have to ask some major questions of the people that did, and of those who had responsibility for mentoring them and supervising and inspecting […]
The biggest meeting of the year in Rockhampton featuring the million dollar Archer, to which people have travelled from all over Queensland and Australia to attend, has been abandoned before the first race was even run. It wasn’t rain, for it is weather fine and track good. At least that was the official rating. It’s […]
Queensland apprentice Mitch Goring has some real problems when it comes to maintaining his riding career. It’s not the kid’s fault. He is just too tall and too heavy. Goring is a 2 kilo claimer with a registered riding weight now of 57kg, which is too much for an apprentice to start with. The problem […]
Racing Queensland recently spent tens of millions of dollars putting in lights at the Gold Coast track so that races could be held at night. The question is why? Since the start of 2025 there have only been six night cards held at the Coast, plus a couple of twilight meetings where the last race […]
Lachlan Murray is the acting CEO of Racing Queensland. Muz doesn’t act very well. To be fair to the bloke, not even Marlon Brando could sell us the bullshit lines that he is spouting. He knows and understands that rising fuel costs are causing havoc to participants in all 3 codes across the state, Muz […]
