Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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.
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? […]
