Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A couple of weeks back a race meeting was abandoned at Emerald in controversial circumstances. Trainers were driving from near and far to come and race at the meeting, most from far. If they had been provided with early notice of the meet being called off they could have stayed home. Instead many of them […]
Time heals all wounds they say, but leaves the scar So I think I’ll not go back to Camooweal No I think I’ll not go back to Camooweal Slim Dusty If it’s good enough for Slim, it’s good enough for Racing Queensland. There hasn’t been a meeting held at the track up at Camooweal track […]
What you see above is on-course Townsville bookmaker Dalan Tamblyn’s market for the Cleveland Bay, the feature race at the Townsville meeting last Saturday week. Tamblyn is betting at 139.7%. You’d be better off playing lotto. Dio Dior is a $23 shot. He is betting $3.80. Almost every horse in the field is priced at […]
At 12.07 am the Ipswich track for today’s meeting was rated a Soft 5. There has been no rain in the past 24 hours, and just a quarter of an inch in the past week. That makes the Soft 5 rating somewhat strange, buy hey this is Ipswich. The skies are clear and the sun […]
Liam Birchley is a great trainer who had it all ripped away from him, or so many thought. He got tangled up in a peripheral association with the Aquanita operation, and on the basis of a couple of innocuous text messages the authorities crucified him, even though he was later found to have nothing wrong. […]
Have a bet on my horse Pentito in the last at sunshine coast tomorrow, currently 3.1 on the fixed. Trained by Jason Edwards who’s going well. I believe he’s a 1.70 chance in that field but carrying big weight at 60kgs. I still think we’ll be too good, best of luck with the punt I got […]
There were 35 pre-race swabs taken from runners at the Rosehill meeting yesterday. Victoria took 32. South Australia pre-race swabbed 23. How about in Queensland you ask? They took just 5. Yes that’s correct, only 5 runners on the whole card in the 3rd biggest racing state in the land were pre-race swabbed so that […]
Steve Rodgers is a quiet unassuming type of bloke, so a lot of people don’t know his name. That’s a shame, for he is one of the smartest and most knowledgeable blokes in the business. Steve has been an expert track clocker, racing writer and form analyst since I first met him 40 years ago, […]
Gladstone 19-year-old wonder kid Brooke Johnson (below, when she was 15) rode at a winner at her first ever meeting a month ago, and hasn’t stopped riding them since. She booted home a double yesterday on the Gladstone sand to give her a career record of 7 wins from 19 starts, at a strike rate […]
We broke the story this week about Marc Van Gestel leaving Sydney to take up the Chief Steward’s role there, and although the mainstream press haven’t caught up yet, you can be guaranteed it’s true. Based on his performance post race 5 at Rosehill today, they can have him. I’m not sure what was the […]
