Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Brisbane Cup is the greatest sprint race in Queensland, one of the greatest in Australia, and probably one of the best in the world. Look at the honor roll of some of the winners. Top Simbi, National Lass, Pretty Fearless, Whip Tip, Golden Fox, Whisky Bale, Flying Amy, Bogie Leigh, Mr Metz. Dyna Double One, Sennachie, Black Opium. Champions one and all. 15 years […]
The average prizemoney today at the TAB meeting at Kilcoy was $20 800. Punters could bet on the meet, so it turned a profit. Oak Park on Saturday was a picnic meeting with no TAB betting, and therefore doing nothing for QLD racing but costing it. The average prizemoney there was $20 020. Why? Are […]
Honest Wayne Innes, lover of wires, mirrors, and easy money corrupt scams See the name of the owner of the Stradbroke runner Superstorm that I have circled? It’s Grace Solomon-Innes, the daughter of the corrupt cop, twice jailed criminal and racing fraudster Wayne Innes. Young Grace is not responsible for her father’s crimes, so it […]
Two weeks ago I wrote what you read above, with a confidence born of certainty. I know the Racing NSW CEO you see, and understand how he thinks, which is the same way I do. Neither of us learned it in Toorak, or at boarding school at posh grammars. Shared knowledge like this gives a […]
Usually Racing QLD notify the public when meetings are transferred to different tracks. It seems that on Saturday they didn’t. A company named Regional Cast – that was formed just months before it won the rich annual six-figure contract for the job, despite the seeming absence of any open tender – is Racing QLD’s official […]
What sort of rubbish is this? Albion Park’s fields for Saturday are declared on the national harness racing website relied upon by punters. And in the 1st race leading reinsdude Nathan Dawson is driving three. Gee that’s helpful isn’t it? About as helpful as Pete McMullen driving two in the same race. And harness racing […]
Why in this modern age of equality does Racing Queensland continue to practice sexism when it comes to promoting the sport? At a time when the leading trainers in NSW, Victoria and QLD are all women (Belinda McCarthy/Kerry Ann Morris, Emma Stewart and Chantal Turpin), and women are in the top 10 on every State […]
Week after week Regional Cast seems to find another way to let Queensland country racegoers down. This week is was filming the races at Hughenden from a thousand miles away without a zoom lens, and not filming the races at Clermont near the thriving town of Moranbah at all. I guess the latter was a […]
The Rockhampton Jockey Club completed construction of 2 on-course horse stabling complexes last year. These stables were built with money provided courtesy of a Racing Queensland grant. It is rumored that the successful tender bidder for the project submitted their quote about a week after the tenders had closed. The whisper is that the winning […]
The Dubai World Cup tour crew You might remember the whisper we related last week about former Racing QLD CEO Brendan Parnell writing to the Cairns Jockey Club demanding to withhold the club’s funding if club supremo Tom Hedley wasn’t removed from his duly and lawfully democratically elected role as President. Well thanks to a […]
