Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The highlights that the QLD bush town of Alpha (pop. 599) are that it has a tourism information centre, golf course, art gallery, showground, Racecourse, parks, swimming pool, tennis courts, museum, hardware store, newsagents, bank, pub, grocery store, butcher, baker – but no candle maker – a post office, BP, Caltex, craft shop, hairdresser, pharmacy, […]
See that bit of missing running rail at the 1300m mark in the first at Ballina on Sunday? Why wasn’t it there? It should have been. Whose job was it to check? They obviously didn’t, and it created a safety hazard that put horses and jockeys at heightened risk. That’s not on. We all make […]
A lot of punters and scribes are getting excited about the Group 1 Tatts Tiara at Eagle Farm on Saturday, and many are talking up the chances of the Naked Tipster’s favorite mare Splash Back, but I warn them all not to get too excited. The word from the early morning track that I’m hearing […]
Peter Profit is most certainly above average, just as the betting market said. Evens ($2.00) into $1.35 it was. It was never in danger. Plunge landed. Happy days.
The Doctor has been hard at it all week studying the form in the nude, as is her practice, and is confident she has found a few bed bets like she did last week, when her special landed at almost $10 and she nailed a trifecta in 3 for $550, amongst others. Here is hoping […]
My namesake debuts in race 2 at Rockhampton today. It will be a good bit of free advertising for the website if it lives up to its trial form. The racehorse Peter Profit shares the same name as the great QLD pacer of the 1970’s after whom this website is named and, ironically, his great […]
The word out of CQ is that the perpetually pesky Callaghan Park sprinklers have failed again. And that the quote is $670 000 to fix them, Who is going to pay for it to get fixed? The club is fly blown. And Racing QLD is on the bones of its arse. I guess they might […]
Watch Blaike McDougall sit up well before the post on the leader in the last at Albury today. It was home to the world, until McDougall stopped riding. His mount still won, but by the skin of it’s teeth. His actions – or inactions, which is a better description – very nearly got the horse […]
Questions are being asked about a young QLD Steward’s interactions and friendships with a number of licensees, including some whose phones have been seized by the stipes colleagues in what appears to be an investigation into the activities of former trainer turned racing manager Ben Currie. We make no indictment of either Currie or the […]
Richmond is a rural town in north-west QLD, not that far from Mt Isa. The race club out there put on a five race meeting on the weekend. Jockeys who rode at it earned $1250 in fees, plus the chance of up to $1700 in commission on prizemoney won, which is not a bad earn […]
