Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
When you can. How hard is it to prepare a sand dog track properly? Especially on a long established course. Rockhampton’s failure to do so is a disgrace. If they don’t lift their act the Rocky club’s license is surely in danger. This just ain’t good enough. At all.
You all know my opinion of the city of Rockhampton in general. This just confirms it. Licensed race clubs have an obligation to make sure their tracks are suitable to race on. The dog club in Rocky didn’t meet that obligation. How ordinary is this? It is just not good enough. Shame, shame, shame.
In 2023 the land and buildings at Callaghan Park were worth $3.7 million. Or at least that’s what the Rocky Jockey Club said anyway. Now days they say its worth $6.8 million. I didn’t know that the value of land in the beef capital had doubled in two years, did you? Somehow I doubt that […]
Have a look at this race at Rockhampton during the week. The track was a slow 5. It looked it too. This race was a mixed Maiden/Class 1. They didn’t look to go that hard. But the winner broke Chinny Boom’s track record. Smashed it in fact. Or so they say. If this race was […]
See that thing the man is sitting behind at the non-TAB meeting as Esk today? That’s a tote machine. It’s fully operational and in work today too. We thought that the Rockhampton Jockey Club CEO told punters that no race club has TAB terminals at non-TAB meetings. Yeah good Rocky. It’s just you.
There were a lot of very unhappy punters at Callaghan Park on Melbourne Cup day. The race club didn’t out on a tote or a TAB window, or even a machine. All there was were three bookies, none of them offering anything but win place betting, and with queues stretching some people say up to […]
The latest controversy out of Callaghan Park, Rockhampton is said to be that the trackwork supervisor, a bloke named Bevon Burnell, does not hold a First Aid Certificate and hasn’t for years. This is a major concern. What happens if a rider fall and gets injured, or suffers a medical episode and requires urgent CPR? […]
According to information that we have received from people who would know, the barrier attendant who returned a positive preliminary reading to a banned substance during this week’s impromptu drug testing operation at the Callaghan Park racecourse was none other than the banned trainer Nick Walsh’s father Troy. The irony is that not only is […]
It was third time lucky for trainer on Saturday for Ricky Vale and owner Pav Cheimardinov when courtesy of a lovely ride by the Uruguayan hoop Raul Silvera Olivera they lifted the Rockhampton Cup with Logan Street Lion, after failing twice in the past few years to win it with their grand now-retired galloper Namazu. […]
Archie Re your story about Ash Butler’s ride on Fine Shot at Rocky on Sunday. A Rather Funny Ride That race was run over 1600m. You can give Fine Shot all the clear air in the world, but he ain’t running a mile down a well. Seven furlongs pulls him up. And that’s with everything […]
