Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Now CEO Brendan ‘Pins’ Parnell and his crew at Racing Queensland have abandoned the rescheduled race meeting at Townsville that they had abandoned the day before. Racing administration north of the Tweed just goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. The maximum temperature predicted by the BOM for Cowboy City tomorrow is 32 degrees. That […]
This is a story about the art of the spruik, and it’s master. I would have called Gai Waterhouse it’s mistress, only I am a modern new age feminist turned gender equality junkie, and Gai lays down for no-one except through marriage, love and duty, or because she wants to, and then only with Robbie. […]
Two days ago Racing Queensland, in all of their great wisdom, made the decision to reschedule the Townsville race meeting set down for tomorrow and move it to Friday. As a result of the unplanned change of race date, broadcast coverage of the meeting was moved from Sky 1 to Sky 2. Meetings on Sky […]
A horse named Big Arjay was the medium of a sensational plunge in the 3rd race at Cowra on Monday. He was backed from $14 into $3.30, which is a decent go in any person’s language. Big Arjay was beaten into 2nd place after being seemingly stuck on the fence behind the leaders with nowhere […]
There is only one horse that you want to be on in the All Star Mile. The winner. I’m Thunderstruck. I am indeed, so much so that I am going to come out 11 days before the race and declare the flashy Price and Kent trained 4-year-old the bet of the century. This horse has […]
Allan Endresz is a bullshit and bluff merchant who cons and bullies race clubs and PRA’s to bend to his will and let him get his own way, whether its right or wrong. So far it has worked against the weak gutted administrators in Queensland and Victoria, who bend and scrape to him and kiss […]
This above is the Murwillimbah race track. Poor bastards. This below is Robert Heathcoate’s stable in Brisbane. Two more inches and we would have been talking catastrophe. Bloody hell. Thank God it didn’t rain another drop. PS – It is worth noting that both tracks have their horseshoe’s upside down. My grandmother always said it […]
The integrity of Queensland racing has been questionable for a long time. Strange decisions are being made by Stewards. Swabs are rarer than a Penny Black stamp. Even stranger things are being ignored. Just when you thought the huge concerns couldn’t become any deeper, yesterday at the Sunshine Coast they did. Watch the replay […]
Corporate bookmakers pay out on first past the post. They apply what is known as a protest payout, which means if a protest is lodged you get paid either way, whether it is upheld or dismissed. Mark Yole, the driver of the horse that got booted in the guts by Todd Rattray and fell, somehow […]
The half million dollar On The Bit Racing debacle continues apace. Despite the recently privatised outfit’s awful track record, and the decision of Racing Queensland to put its contract out for wide open tender, nothing has improved when it comes to OTBR’s highly paid but horrendously poor coverage of bush racing in the Sunshine State. […]
