Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
