Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing NSW’s website is not real user friendly. It is totally overloaded with information on the front page, the design conjures up visions of the year T-Rex beat Stegosaurus in the Cup, and the whole thing is as clunky as hell. But at least it provides the info a punter wants and needs, and does […]
Racing Queensland (RQ) is a quasi government/semi independent body created to administer the three codes of racing in the state, as the name suggests. RQ receives the State’s income from wagering – or in the case of the Point of Consumption Tax revenue, 35% of it – and distributes it according to priorities determined by […]
For the past couple of years now there has been a shortage of jockeys in regional Queensland. There were never a lot ever, but the country and provincial tracks north of the Sunshine Coast only used to race once a week, so there didn’t really need to be. Supply and demand principles worked: there were […]
It is reassuring to know that your State’s Principal Racing Authority is up to speed with all that is going on in the sport, and has it’s finger on the pulse. Sadly the patient’s dead. As has become the custom in Queensland in recent months, the starting barriers malfunctioned at the Sunshine Coast yesterday afternoon, […]
Two months age we told you about the mass failures of the starting barriers at Gatton, and put forth a position that if the club was unable to secure funding for new stalls or to repair the existing faulty ones then it’s license to race should be stripped from it. Well here we are today […]
So it is a public holiday in Queensland tomorrow. Sydney and Melbourne don’t have one, because they observe ANZAC properly and don’t trivialise it by turning it into an excuse for a day off work. The national gambling market is therefore wide open for Queensland, so the obvious thing to do is to put on […]
Well I have been going to the races for a long, long time – half a century in fact – and my family come from the Darling Downs, so I know a little bit about horses and something about the big races at Clifford Park. Ever heard of Abruzzi? Nah? Then you don’t know as […]
The upside down horseshoe says it all Queensland racing’s luck. It doesn’t bother Grace Grace though. She thinks it is a rocket ship. Oh well, at least this time she can say that she’s been to the races before. A couple of times at least, Bloody hell. Those bastard factions. Yesterday afternoon the mail straight […]
I was rather critical of the Queensland Racing Minister Stirling Hinchliffe for the first two-thirds of his term, but that is only because I know him, and because he deserved it. In the past year though Stirlo has turned it all around, and ended up being a rather good Minister for our industry, as I […]
What a shame it is that jockey Scott Sheargold did not make the trip to ride at the Atherton race meeting. I had travelled the hour there from my home at Frank Lodge specifically hoping to meet and interview him about a certain matter that is very topical in the tropical regions of racing right […]
