Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
No wonder they couldn’t afford to build Norwell!!! So Redcliffe is getting new lights, sounds good to me, (I am going to move there!) but at a price tag of $6m?? Seriously for just lights? https://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=65009 2 odd years ago Melton got new lights and remodelled their infield to make it a multipurpose venue at […]
A number of Queensland jockeys are known to be very upset about the late cancellation of the meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, in circumstances where the weather forecast showed very early in the day that increasingly heavy rainfall would almost certainly render the troubled track at Caloundra unsafe to race. It has been raining […]
We have written at length about the twice jailed compulsive gambler and all round conman Wayne Francis Innes, the man whose most recent stretch in the can related to a six-figure fraud on Racing Queensland. Innes is an inveterate thief who over the three decade course of his criminal career has shown no inkling of […]
As regular readers of this site will know, we – inspired by the passionate advocate for overseas apprentices Gold Coast Greg – have long championed the cause of bringing talented and committed young Asian apprentices to QLD. It is working in New Zealand, and it will work here, just as it has before back in […]
I remembers when Doomben used to be one of the best wet weather tracks in Australia. You could dump massive amounts of rain on it during the week and it would still pick up and race on the weekend. Not anymore. According to the BOM readings from the airport across the road Doomben 65.8 mm […]
Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre* *NOTE – Review Chair Graham Quirk was not involved in reviewing the Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre due to his role on the Board of Racing Queensland, which owns the Albion Park Raceway site. The new Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre venue is proposed to be a 12-court, high performance, community and para-sport […]
Dear RQ Did you know that a racehorse from QLD has won more races than any other galloper in the history of Australian racing? The horse’s name is Passion Moon, and between 1955 and 1969 it won somewhere between 109 and 119 races on QLD tracks, and received acclaim around the world? I didn’t know […]
Former champion North Queensland jockey Ian Toward has called in to tell us that we and the ABC are wrong about Fabs Cowboy equaling the record for most wins by a horse in the State when the great bush galloper racked up his 52nd race victory last week at Mt Isa. According to the man […]
The st0ry being cast about regarding the horrible state of the Gold Coast track on Saturday is that a mistake was made whereby not enough water was placed on the course proper in the days leading into the meeting, resulting in the problems that the turf surface displayed on the day. Quite frankly I reckon […]
We have been telling you since December that the Gold Coast track is Friar Tucked. It gives us no pleasure at all to be proven right. How does a brad new multi-million dollar track throw up like this? Because it hasn’t constructed properly and is rooted, that’s how. The track looked like a cow paddock, […]
