Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What you see in the picture are the contracts that Racing Queensland entered into just before Xmas to buy $5 million worth of ready grown grass from a turf farm at Wamuran, just near the Caboolture Sports Club, a half hour north of Brisbane. Five million dollars worth of turf? What the heck? Why would […]
Here are some questions for On The Bit Racing Pty Ltd (OTBR) about it’s $250 000 contract to provide broadcast and vision of QLD Country Racing. 1. Is it common practice for sponsors to pay their money into the personal bank accounts of the company’s Directors? 2. If so, why? 3. How much money has […]
Personation is a legal term for pretending to be someone else, for the purpose of gaining a benefit for yourself or a related party, or to cause a detriment to another. An example of personation would be writing a letter or email under the name of another and pretending that you as author are them, […]
This is a direct message sent from Matthew ‘Matt’ Peters of the On The Bit Racing to a potential sponsor. Matt Peters is a director of On The Bit Racing, and in that role must comply with State and Federal laws. The Kristy referred to in the message is Kristy Peters, the wife of Matt […]
Some people say we are picking on On The Bit Racing for nefarious reasons. Well let me tell you were are not. On The Bit Racing receives many hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money by way of contract payments from Racing Queensland, a government entity, for producing the broadcast of country race meetings. […]
Now CEO Brendan ‘Pins’ Parnell and his crew at Racing Queensland have abandoned the rescheduled race meeting at Townsville that they had abandoned the day before. Racing administration north of the Tweed just goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. The maximum temperature predicted by the BOM for Cowboy City tomorrow is 32 degrees. That […]
Two days ago Racing Queensland, in all of their great wisdom, made the decision to reschedule the Townsville race meeting set down for tomorrow and move it to Friday. As a result of the unplanned change of race date, broadcast coverage of the meeting was moved from Sky 1 to Sky 2. Meetings on Sky […]
In a timely move that is to be commended, Racing Queensland has opened up the purse strings to provide gallops, harness and greyhound trainers with a one-off payment to help them through the clean ups and repairs from last week’s floods. Harness and gallops trainers with 1-6 horses in work are eligible for a $350 […]
For some time now we have been highlighting the absolute inadequacy of On The Bit Racing in priv, and the controversially formed private company’s total unfitness to continue to hold the highly paid Racing Queensland contract to do so. Week after week, month after month, lovers of country racing have been slapped in the face […]
David Reynolds (above), alleged criminal on bail, posing for the official photographer at the Queensland Country Racing Awards in Emerald a month ago.
