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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.
In Queensland you have to have five acceptors to make a field. Race 1 at Townsville got there. Just. Georgie Holt put three in to make the numbers work. Then after Racing QLD declared it a race she scratched two. No doubt they will have a slight cough, or heat in the joint. The sort […]
Robert Craddock follow 2 min read March 5, 2026 – 4:00AM Midnight at the Albion Park trots is not the place to be when a fight breaks out – especially for someone like Kotoni Staggs. What happened during the ensuing brawl reset the Broncos star’s trajectory. Kotoni Staggs is such a high energy, in-your-face player […]
Archie, The recent precedent set by RNSW stewards is a bad one. Ceowulf had blood in both nostrils. Scoped it, no blood in its lungs. o stewards by elimination said it must’ve been external trauma (did not attribute what that was though). Then it bleeds from one nostril on weekend. Now a major trainer at […]
This below is the Open class race at Blackall on Saturday. The horse drawn the 1 is Han Dynasty, the winner of 26 from 51. It’s never missed the start in its life. The horse in gate 2 is Itsourtime, a dual Group 3 winner in Victoria when trained by Danny O’Brien. It doesn’t miss […]
Just to be very clear so you don’t think I am some misogynist or weirdo, it was the good doctor G. Whiting PhD – aka the Nude Tipster – who sent me the photo at the top with her tips, and requested that I use it. It was me who insisted on editing the word […]
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 […]
By Jon Tuxworth (The Mercury) Tasracing has made the stunning admission there was intel the barrier gates were in the wrong position before this month’s Hobart Cup, revealing a “judgement call” was made to run the race on schedule anyway. Speaking on SEN on Friday, Tasracing chief executive Andrew Jenkins said the review into how […]
The latest mail filtering out of Tasmania is that the Hobart Starter, a highly experienced chap with over three decades in the job, did in fact notice that the barriers were in the wrong position for the start of Sunday’s Hobart Cup. Word is that he challenged the position of the barriers either before or […]
