Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
A picture tells a thousand words. So this one of QRIC Chief Steward Josh Adams walking the track just before abandoning the Archer meeting today says it all. I’ve just spoken to two highly regarded professional track walkers and two jockeys who walk them twice a week before meetings, and none of them have ever […]
The biggest meeting of the year in Rockhampton featuring the million dollar Archer, to which people have travelled from all over Queensland and Australia to attend, has been abandoned before the first race was even run. It wasn’t rain, for it is weather fine and track good. At least that was the official rating. It’s […]
This is the Callaghan Park track report that the Rockhampton Jockey Club posted to RISA at 7.45am on Sunday morning. Zero irrigation they say. How does that align with the previous day’s Stewards Report that said the sprinklers had intermittently come on and off between 6.30am and 10.30am the day before? It doesn’t obviuosly. If […]
What is this in the picture? Chemicals dumped out the back of Callaghan Park race track, Rockhampton. Photo taken on Wednesday. What is in the chemical container? Who knows, because the labels had been stripped off. Where did the stuff come from? A committee member’s business some say. We don’t know whether it is true. […]
With the pressure on the fairytales start coming thick and fast. Instead of accepting the blame for their own mistake the Rockhampton Jockey Club just keeps spinning and spinning. Now we are expected to play the role of wide eyed idiots and believe the club’s story that this supposed broken valve on the sprinklers just […]
The QRIC Stewards were told that when the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s course curator did his track inspection at 6.30am on Saturday there was no problem with the track and it was right to race. When the Stewards came and did their own track inspection at 10.30am, we are told, there had been a malfunction with […]
What you see above is a picture taken at last night’s Calcutta at Callaghan Park. See where the arrow is pointing? That’s the exact spot that became waterlogged overnight and caused the meeting to be cancelled. Here it is again. Racing QLD sent out the text below to participants this morning. It says zero irrigation […]
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.
