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A scapegoat is a person, group, or entity unjustly blamed for the faults, failures, or misdeeds of others, often to deflect responsibility or manage collective anxiety. This concept stems from a biblical ritual involving a goat sent into the wilderness bearing the community’s sins The news out of Rockhampton this morning is that the Rockhampton […]
Has no-one ever told the RJC that upside down horseshoes are unlucky? Hi Archie Regarding Bill Ousten’s response to criticism of management and maintenance of the Rockhampton track irrigation system published on your site. Firstly Bill is a bit of a trier who has done some good work over the years to help racing in […]
The message below to Ray is to Ray See, the administrator of the Facebook page Racing Around QLD, from a committee member of the Rockhampton Jockey Club. We have a few questions of our own to the committee man that we pose below. Ray, I’m on the committee of the RJC and just want to […]
On Sunday sections of the Callaghan Park home straight were too wet to race safely on, and the Archer meeting scheduled for that day was cancelled. The Rockhampton Jockey Club CEO claimed that the sodden patches of the straight resulted from a sprinkler malfunction, which seems to be the excuse every time something goes wrong […]
Finally, belatedly, Racing Queensland have decided to send its Senior Track and Development Manager Marty Synan – the so said ‘guru’ – up to Rockhampton to do the job the RJC said he was supposed to do the whole time, which is mentor their inexperienced new track curator Kent Lean, who was hurled into the […]
Duck shoving is an Australian and New Zealand term for evading responsibility, passing the buck, or acting unscrupulously to avoid blame. It often refers to bureaucratic or political maneuvering to avoid accountability. A game of duck shoving has already begun in the Beef Capital, as people attempt to forward maneuver avoiding blame for the debacle […]
In our previous story we wrote that long serving track foreman Rob Burnell was mentoring the new Callaghan Park track manager Kent Lean. We based that on publicly available material, most of it published by the Rockhampton Jockey Club. Since then we have been informed that Rob Burnell resigned from his employment with the club […]
So the Rockhampton Jockey Club is once again blaming a sprinkler malfunction for the track being unsafe to race today for the Archer meeting. Yeah good. No doubt they will once again dive into the junk pile in the shed and pull out an old disused rusted valve like they did last time and blame […]
Today’s cancelled Archer meeting has been rescheduled to Tuesday. So what happens now? Do the trainers stay up in Rocky for two more days or go home? If they stay will Racing QLD or the race club pay their accommodation and expenses? Should they choose to fly home to attend to their stables and then […]
I am not blaming individuals on the Rocky Jockey Club track staff for the failure to prepare a race ready surface for today’s meeting, for they didn’t appoint themselves. But you have to ask some major questions of the people that did, and of those who had responsibility for mentoring them and supervising and inspecting […]
