Protest? You Can’t Protest! The Chairman Has Already Made Up His Mind! – Whip Rules? What Rules? Never Heard of Them – Stewarding Queensland Style – The Place Where You Never Need a Jury (First Published June 2020)
What Makes V’Landys Such a Brilliant Racing Administrator – It’s the Economy Stupid
Bill Clinton successful 1992 campaign run for US President was founded on a simple premise. It’s the economy, stupid. Everything revolves around the economy. If money is coming in hard, everything is sweet. If it’s not, then life’s a constant struggle, and running racing is too.. It is easy as that. Why then is Peter […]
Bruce Springsteen Concert in Auckland Cancelled – King Gaz Thinks the Support Band Might Feel Inferior
I know that a lot of Australian readers get sick of hearing stories about Kiwi racing, but just like it was in the war our two countries are co-dependent, and the good health of racing of both codes in one relies on good health of racing in the other, and if you don’t believe me […]
Samantha Collett Should Be Hung Drawn and Quartered (In a Metaphorical Sense)
What the hell was Samantha Collett doing on She’s The Gift in the Mooloolaba Cup yesterday? She served it up like merry hell to the leader and favourite Without Revenge from whoa to go, but she was never really looking for the lead. Every time she got a sniffing of taking it she eased. Then […]
Just Give Him This and He Will Run Like He Has Been Shot Out of a Gun – EPO, Ho Ho Ho
For those of us who don’t know a great deal about horse doping – which is most normal, good people – the revelations in the FBI drug prosecutions and trials are extremely instructive. In fact when you read them and think about a lot of things that happen here in the Southern Hemisphere – things […]
The Greatest Horse Ever, Bar One – And Frankel Wasn’t Any Better
Oh man I hope I live long enough to see another Winx, but having had the rare joy of seeing two of Australia’s greatest three horses in my lifetime, and another three of the top ten, sadly I very much doubt it. When you’ve watched the careers of the greatest two horses that the world […]
Excuse Me Son – You’ve Missed a Few
I appreciate that Racing QLD’s media man is only a young bloke, and that he is probably quite new to racing and learning on his feet. But when you are going to make bold assertions about who has and hasn’t held both gallops and trots training licenses you should know your facts, especially if you […]
Well There You Go Hey – Ric McMahon’s Rolled – Maybe – It’s Poor Form For a Bishop Park Boy if He Has – And Smart Thinking by the Cops and QRIC if He Hasn’t
If you grew up in Brisbane in the 70’s and 80’s and played footy – rugby league – you knew all about Bishop Park and the tricks the Norths Devils club got up to. You also knew that if you pulled some of your own the old Norths Ladies in the stand on the eastern […]
Gallops Tip Results
As I said in the story when I gave out the tips, it was a good day for golf. 3 tips plus a saver. All lost. 4 units invested. 4 units lost. Return zero. ROI nil. From here on in we are only giving Group or Feature race tips on the gallops. Our record there […]