Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
John ‘Lucky’ Lingard is the best writer in racing. Pam O’Neill is every woman in racing’s hero. Both of them are people I am very proud to call my good mates. Lucky says that Queen Pammy should be on the board of Racing Queensland. I totally agree. As Bob Hawke once said, anyone who doesn’t […]
On The Bit Racing is being paid circa half a million dollars a year – at least – by Racing Queensland to provide country racing fans with live vision of non-TAB races. This is what you get for your cash. It is race two at Dalby yesterday. That’s value for money isn’t it? Not. Hey, […]
They would have to be kidding wouldn’t they? Charging race fans who can’t get to Emerald for the ceremony $22.19 to watch a live stream of the Queensland Country Racing Awards. These people are rorters. They are being sponsored to the tune of a large sum of money generously donated by Ladrokes. A number of […]
A couple of days ago we wrote an article in which we were critical of the Towers Jockey Club (TJC) about what we (seemingly wrongly) believed was their failure to fix the race track in the town in time to hold its scheduled race meeting in the first week in March. The club’s hard working […]
Some things that Racing Queensland do just leave you shaking your head and asking yourself “what the hell were they thinking?” For reasons unable to be discussed, the publication of this 3 page feature spread in the last edition of Race Magazine (the old racing calendar) is one of those things. What were they thinking? […]
A reader who ventured out to Kilcoy for the Australia Day races reports that there were so many black shirts on security detail that he felt like he was at Benito Mussolini’s birthday party. Apparently there were all of about 200 racegoers and about two dozen security guards, a ratio of about one enforcer to every […]
I’ve had enough of V’Landys and his Everest. He can stick his Kosciuszko up his arse. Both of them wear blue, and we are maroon. You can take the Archer and insert it where the sun doesn’t shine. Queensland has been a racist police state for 150 year’s, and time is up. Everyone in the […]
Peter Moody at the track at Emerald on Queensland Country Racing Awards weekend 2020 I had the chance to speak the great Peter Moody a few minutes ago about the crazy situation we have on our hands where the attendees to the Queensland Country Racing Awards are being invited/encouraged by the Awards organising committee to […]
The Queensland Country Racing Awards is supposed to be the showcase of country racing in the State, and in previous years has been, but the privatisation of the formerly volunteer run On The Bit Racing into the hands of an elite few has driven a huge wedge in the sport and turned the once hugely […]
This is a further response from On The Bit Racing about the fend they gave us when we asked about why a certain trainer who is on jail on remand for alleged multiple offences of violence against a woman racing participant had been nominated for a Queensland Country Racing Award. I for one don’t buy […]
