Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dear Archie, On Tuesday morning prior to acceptances, one of QRIC’s ring leaders Joshua Adams was on RadioTAB declaring that the Townsville meeting on Thursday would be a late start and races run at thirty minute intervals due to the extreme heat expected on the day under the guise of animal and participant welfare. That […]
Greyhound Racing pulls 22.4% of QLD wagering turnover, and 21.5% of the profits. These profits account for 18.55% of the total three code revenue in QLD. 76.3% of Racing Queensland’s total profit last year was earned by the greyhound industry The dogs made made it’s own single code annual profit of $28.65 million. By way […]
The Sunshine Coast today could only attract enough runner to put on a 6 race race card, and 5 of the 6 couldn’t pull sufficient starters to get an 8 horse field. These six races had fields of 6, 7, 5, 6, 7, and 9. That can hardly be good for betting turnover, and it […]
If the mail floating around in trot circles is correct the Queensland Harness Centre of Excellence looks like it might have died a natural death before it even came to life. It seems that the Queensland Government is running short of cash and can’t stump up the $120 odd million required to construct the much […]
The thing I like about this new Racing QLD CEO Jason Scott is that he fixes things. When problems occur in the hierarchy he doesn’t look to shoot the messenger, he goes straight to correcting the issue. It’s a highly admirable quality. Someone in RQ stuffed up and spelled Jock Gollogly’s name wrong in his […]
Jock Gollogly was one of the great racing men in Queensland racing history. His unfortunate passing this week has been well covered by others he knew him better than we. Racing Queensland has rightly marked his passing with a race named after him on Saturday. Sadly though they can’t even spell his name. It is […]
Racing QLD is looking for a new handicapper. I thought that they had enough of their own. It looks like a job for me. I just wonder if they have in-office spas, saunas and lap dances too? Benefits and Perks · We have generous employee benefits such as EAP, an innovative reward and recognition program offering […]
NSW and QLD both have a shortage of jockeys, which is a huge concern in particular for the Sunshine State where a ridiculous and utterly unsustainable number of races are run each weekend, and horses are regularly scratched every Saturday for want of a rider. So what’s the plan to fix it? In a state […]
4 of the 7 races at the Gold Coast on Saturday have fields of less than 8 starters. The Kilcoy TAB meeting boasts just a 5 race card. Atherton has only 5 races on the program too. It has field sizes of 6,6,7, 3 and 9. Gympie also has only 5 races. At least 4 […]
Question: How does a race meeting held on a historic lush track that has only experienced light showers and is rated a soft 6 get abandoned before single race is run? Answer: Because the track is in Queensland. The Warwick races were called off yesterday before a single race had been run. It wasn’t due […]
