Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is a huge problem in regional Queensland with the current shortage of jockeys. Everyone knows it, but no-one wants to fix it, or alternatively they don’t know how. Only 6 jockeys turned up to ride at the Mt Isa meeting yesterday. As a result 6 horses on the 6 race card had to be […]
Racing Queensland is paying a company named On The Bit Racing a staggering six-figure sum to act as broker to arrange live streams of non-TAB races on the internet. It is a noble idea that we all wanted to see happen, but they are wasting their time. On The Bit used to be a community […]
A few questions. How does it cost $600 000 to remediate a hundred year old red dirt track that my Dad and Ben Currie’s both used to ride work on when they were 12? Why would the contract to remediate a dirt track go to a company called Global Turf Solutions when there isn’t a […]
I was looking through the contract disclosure list that Racing Queensland are required by law to publish each year, and found a few contracts of interest. Here are some of them. I will show you some more tomorrow. $7.02 million to Martin Collins Australia to build us another useless synthetic track at Caloundra. Martin Collins […]
What you see at the top is a contract to pay the Royal National Association (RNA) almost $120 000 that Racing Queensland signed with the organisation just 23 days prior to the advertised start time of the Royal Queensland Show, aka the Ekka. At the time the contract was being signed the RNA were telling […]
Last week we published an article in which we mentioned the extraordinarily high turnover of staff at Racing Queensland. Today a reader has sent us a link to the reviews about working at Racing Queensland published on the job site seek.com.au They might explain a few things. Here is what they say —————————————————- Soul destroying. […]
