Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A well known jockey with an active interest in the future of the sport told a mate of mine recently that there won’t be any male jockeys in QLD in 20 years time, or very few anyway. He’s right. Queensland presently has 42 apprentice jockeys. All jockeys must undertake an apprenticeship, so this is the […]
How the hell could the horse on the outside have won race 3 at Beaudesert on Monday? It seems impossible. But that’s what happened. What sort of angle is this? The photographers obviously know. Bloody hell though, no-one else does.
If you have been convicted of any of the above offences, and your conviction was recorded after 1 July 2016, you cannot get a racing license of any description in Queensland. You are totally banned. If you were convicted prior to 2016 you are subject to the fit and proper test, and at its own […]
Racing Victoria Stewards are informed just prior to the running of race 6 that Alligator Blood, who is due to run in the very next race, has arrived at the Sandown track displaying a skin irritation. We are not told what type of irritation or what caused it. We don’t know who told the Stewards […]
Trainer Frankie Stockdale is a recovering alcoholic. There is no cure for alcoholism. Abstinence is the only answer. Stockdale knows it better than anyone. Two weeks prior to Xmas in 1999 he jumped in his car at 3.30am after an all night and into the morning booze session and drove home, or tried to anyway. […]
Twin Hills (Fri-Sat) I think it’s because I like sex more than somewhat, but whenever I hear the name Twin Hills I think of Maggie’s boobs, and when they run a double header the imaginations starts running away from me if I don’t pull it back quick (oops, gave myself up), so we will concentrate […]
Ever since the closure of Eagle Farm for reconstruction almost a decade ago now, the Doomben race track has been over-used, over-worked, and under-maintained, and it has caused a dramatic change to course proper. Not that long ago Doomben was one of the most resilient turf tracks to in Australia. The course proper raced consistently […]
The former Racing Queensland Chairman Bob Bentley was an absolute clown in my view, for all the reasons described in the 2006 story below, and more. His greatest achievement was putting himself in the QLD Racing Hall of Fame that he’d established just a couple of years before, when he had no claim at all […]
Bob Bentley in a dry gully, where he belonged IN a move that will send shock-waves through the racing industry, the new LNP Government plans to re-appoint Bob Bentley as Chairman of Racing Queensland. Speaking from Dubai where he is attending the Asian Racing Conference, Bentley told letsgohorseracing that he was both ‘surprised’ and ‘delighted’ by the […]
Morven is a small one horse joint of about 200 people, located about an hour’s drive to the east of my Dad’s home town of Charleville, after Roma and Mitchell as you are heading west. They race there about once a year, although God only knows why. It might have been all the go back […]
