Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are plenty of slippery eels in the Fitzroy river that runs alongside Rockhampton’s racecourse Callaghan Park. On Archer day this year there will be one on land up on a stand calling out prices. If he can get a Queensland license. I guess we will find out if the QRIC are serious about applying […]
A lot of people have short memories. Not me. Want to know a little bit about the Waterhouses? Then watch this ABC documentary from 1986. It’s fascinating viewing. Click on the link and enjoy. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-08/horses-for-course—1986/2832202?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
A number of people who should have been looked at hard during the Fine Cotton ring-in investigation weren’t. One of them was Lesn Harris, the Queensland lightweight jockey who rode the runner-up over the line Harbour Gold, the horse who was later promoted to 1st place when the ring-in was discovered. Take a look at […]
I wish them well, too, but there is a bigger issue at play here. While PP raises the issue of how long Miller and Crossland had been “working” on the day – it is plausible they had started work at 8:00 AM and the crash (I won’t call it an accident) occurred 18 hours later […]
It’s the 2nd race at Lingfield last night, a hurdle. The leader Teddy Disco is $1.14. Have a look what happens. Have you ever seen anything like this in your life?
Mulga Bill is a column about QLD bush racing contributed by a great group of passionate Country Racing followers. Like Keith’s column, it is published unedited. On Febuary 25th racing kicks off in Mount Isa and Blackall with a huge crisis hovering over country racing in Queensland – a chronic shortage of Jockeys across the […]
Do you recognise the bloke on the right? No, it’s not the penguin, even though they do bear a remarkable resemblance. It’s Scrivo, former leading jockey Shane Scriven! Doing his his best Roy Higgins impersonation obviously. Scrivo is the apprentice school chief these days. They reckon he took some likely young prospects for a canter […]
I don’t know what you make of race 5 at Doomben on Wednesday, but personally I am not quite sure it was on the level. The Stewards of course disagree, but that’s because they don’t do or know form. The horse in question that I reckon was off was the $1.50 favorite Nashira, trained by […]
The image you see is from Trial 1 at Townsville on Monday. Isn’t that just grand? A fatality waiting to happen. Safety in racing? Sorry, I can’t hear you. And here I was thinking that the GAP program was only for the greyhounds.
“Upon further investigation it was established that the vehicle towing the barriers was in contact with an electric fence which may have been sending a small current through the metal sections of the starting stalls. “Stewards ordered club officials to rectify the issue and were satisfied to proceed with the meeting. “Upon further review of […]
