Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I hope I break even today. I need the money. Punter at Aquaduct racecourse, name unknown All of life is 6/5 against Damon Runyon Always back the horse named self-interest. It’s the only one trying. Jack Lang, former NSW Premier This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother Former UK jockey Ted […]
On New Year’s Eve a non-TAB meeting was held at Emerald, the capital town of the cluster of Bowen Basin coal mining settlements. Emerald used to be a nothing track in the middle of nowhere, but when coal boomed it all of a sudden became important, and has ever since been attracting the attention of […]
As we advised yesterday, there was only one swab attendant on duty across the two daytime meetings held in South-East Queensland on New Year’s Day. This attendant was originally rostered to work at the Gatton meeting, but was redeployed to Doomben when race day officials became aware that the main metropolitan meeting did not have […]
A rumour is swirling around that there were no swab attendants at the TAB meeting at Gatton in Queensland today. It seems that the senior race day official who a couple of weeks ago ordered an employee who was awaiting their COVID test result to come to work has been ordered to pull her head […]
Now it comes on the spring of 1931, after a long hard winter, and times are very tough indeed, what with the stock market going all to pieces, and banks busting right and left, and the law getting very nasty about this and that, and one thing and another, and many citizens of this town […]
This Oakbank stoush over jumps racing is a beauty. Let me explain it for you in simple terms. Successive South Australian governments have pandered to the loony fringe of vegans and porn actors who want to ban all types of racing, and aimed at low hanging fruit by trying to knock out the jumps first. […]
We retold the infamous story of how Group 1 winning trainer Geoff Chapman was forced to change the name of his star filly Merkin to Giostra a few decades ago after the authorities discovered that a Merkin was a pubic wig worn by actresses and sex workers, a fact that caused some discomfort to the […]
Savaging? He was only trying to give her a little kiss.
Turaroi Tokoma, the slave without the shirt. My kids great-great grandfather. My wife’s great-grandfather – my children’s ancestor – was a slave, stolen from his island home in the waters between the Solomon Islands and PNG, and taken thousands of miles away to labour for white men without wages and at the threat of whipping […]
8000 black slaves just like my wife and children’s ancestor Tokoma disappeared in Queensland in just 10 years. They simply vanished, according to the historical records written by the white men who stole them. The truth is that they died of disease, or dropped dead from over-work, or in many cases were simply slaughtered. Their […]
