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After consultation with the Club Stewards amended the start times for Races 2 (2.20pm), 3 (2.50pm) and 4 (3.40pm) to allow sufficient time for remedial work to be carried out between Race 3 and 4 in an effort to fill in divots created by runners in earlier events. We have written about the failures of […]
Country racing people out west are up in arms about the cancellation of the Isisford race meeting today and the abandonment of the last two races on the card at Charleville, and not without good cause. Our western correspondent Lou from Longreach explains the situation best. Cox Plate Day is one of those great race […]
It’s wonderful to learn that Racing Queensland has entered into a new $900 000 over 3 years partnership with Save a Horse Australia, the animal protection and rehoming charity headed by the brave horse loving former jockey Laura Cheshire, who was forced out of the saddle a couple of years ago by injury and redirected […]
Today’s TAB race meeting at Mt Isa has to be in danger, with temperatures in the town predicted to soar to a fry eggs on the driveway 41 degrees in the middle of the day. Racing QLD regard 38 degrees as extreme temperature, and its heat policy decrees that consideration of abandoning or modifying a […]
North Queenslanders are up in arms about the perceived – and perhaps actual – lack of care and attention being paid to gallops racing outside of the big city. First we’ve had the heavy track on sand on a dry sunny day debacle at Charleville. Then we had Townsville training track closure chaos. All the […]
Townsville based trainers are up in arms at being told without notice this week that the training track at Cluden Park is being closed down forthwith for repairs and reconstruction work, leaving around 160 horses without a surface to be worked or prepared on. The word is that during the close down the trainers have […]
More than a million dollars has been spent on upgrading the Charleville racetrack in recent years, all of it seemingly to little avail based on the condition of the track at Sunday’s 1st meeting back at the course after an absence of racing for 2 years. Despite all that money thrown at the bush track, […]
We have made a new discovery. On the 1st of April 2022 a contract with a value of $384 100 was awarded to a Mango Hill (near Caboolture) based company named Project Pumps and Irrigation for the supply of irrigation materials to the Central Warrego Race Club, which is the Charleville club. No-one has mentioned […]
So yet another race meeting is cancelled at Ipswich on what was a fine, dry Spring day, after 14 days of brilliant weather with just 1mm of rain recorded across the fortnight. https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=40875&list=rb The stated reason is that certain parts of the track were unsafe t0 race on. But how could it be, and why? […]
2023 TAB Thoroughbred Awards Finalists Queensland Horse of the Year Kovalica Skirt The Law Uncommon James Tip: Uncommon James George Moore Queensland Jockey of the Year Ryan Maloney James Orman Ben Thompson Ryan Wiggins Tip: James Orman Ken Russell Queensland Apprentice of the Year Angela Jones Emily Lang Jaden Lloyd Bailey Wheeler Tip: Angela Jones […]
