Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last Friday jockeys Les Tilley and Graham Kliese were injured in a fall at Cluden Park. Just six days later at the same track the first 3 races on the card were run without an ambulance following the field around. What the hell? Safety first? It seems not.
RACE 5: GC BOWLS CLUB MARCH 15TH 0 – 60 HANDICAP 1000 M Following this race, Apprentice L. Martyn, who was struck in the face by a clod during the race, was examined by QAS officers and cleared to fulfill her remaining engagements. Is it any wonder that poor Leah Martyn got hit by a […]
Racing Queensland is responsible for determining the maximum field sizes for races at each track, based on its assessment of safety. I strongly believe that it has failed when it comes to allowing 16 horse fields over 1000m at Cluden Park, Townsville. Townsville is a track with a circumference of only 1680 meters. That is […]
Racing QLD don’t usually publish replays of race falls. They have here. It’s race 9 at Townsville. The fall happens in the straight. Les ‘Bubba’ Tilley and Graham Kliese go down. The word is that Bubba has broken his wrist and collarbone. Poor bugger. I hope he gets well soon. Kliese walked back to the […]
1 August 2025 Recent observations at harness racing meetings have raised serious concerns regarding underage and unlicensed persons being present in restricted areas such as tie-up stalls. Restricted areas are off-limits for valid reasons. In simple terms, it is unsafe for individuals without the proper experience and licensing to be in proximity to horses weighing […]
See this video someone sent me? They say it’s trainer Darleen Duryea, in the fall back in 2021 that almost killed her. I don’t if you noticed it at full speed cos I didn’t first time around, but as her horse goes down there a huge clod dirt come up, next to left side of […]
If you thought the South Australians were stupid for allowing a woman on the drink to lie on the ground next to the barriers at the start of the race at Clare, then how about this at Evangaline Downs in America last night? They let the race start while a bloody ambulance on the track! […]
Health and safety standards are clearly not of a particularly high standard in South Australia. These images are of the start of race 8 at Clare on Sunday. The woman in the right hand corner with the bloke in shorts has clearly had a few. She takes and sip and then decides to have a […]
Time To Turn wasn’t a very good racehorse. In fact it is fair to say that he was a rather poor one. 37 starts without a win and failures at its past four starts at Eidsvold, Burrandowan, Gayndah and Kumbia tell you the story. Now how slow he was though, Time To Turn didn’t deserve […]
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 […]
