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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 […]
Why has former champion jockey Shane Scriven suddenly disappeared from the ranks of the training department at Racing Queensland? Is Scrivo really on voluntary leave as some people say? Or has he been forced to take it? If so, why? These are the presently unexplained mysteries of life. But not for long. Watch this space.
4 November 2021 By Jordan Gerrans North Queensland club Ingham are optimistic they are through their woes with their track and will soon be able to race all year round without concerns. The Ingham-based Herbert River Jockey Club will next week host their second meeting of the year, following on from their popular Gold Cup […]
Racing Queensland offering certificate courses in Rural Management and up to Diploma qualifications in Sports Turf Management? Given the high profile track failures at Eagle Farm, Cairns and Charleville, and a host of less publicised issues with the course proper at other clubs around the State, surely they jest. Before offering these courses to members […]
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 […]
