Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Cocaine use appears to have been rife among those attending the Grand National, a Telegraph Sport investigation into racing’s “Peaky Blinders” drugs problem has found. The class-A substance was present in dozens of toilet cubicles examined during this year’s festival, despite organisers declaring beforehand anyone carrying illegal drugs would be denied entry to Aintree. The apparent scale of cocaine use […]
It is 7pm on Grand National day at Aintree and I am Maximus has long since galloped to victory in the 176th edition of the world’s greatest steeplechase. Yet, time is only now being called on the party in the racecourse’s Festival Zone for those not to have had their fill of one of the […]
Master Jamie is a very smart galloper from Central QLD who has won 18 of his 51 career starts and more than a million dollars in prizemoney. He will need to be good if he wants to add to the tally at Callaghan Park on Thursday. 67.5 kilograms the horse has to carry with the […]
Sailor’s Rum was purchased at the recent Inglis March online auction for $37 500. He is being sold in 1/40th shares worth $1525 each by One Syndications. That values the worth of the horse as $61 000, which leaves not a bad profit marging for the syndicator. Not quite as good as the yearling filly […]
Today’s Kilcoy race meeting has been abandoned, in a period of brilliant sunshine. The word is that the track hasn’t however been Puckeridged, but rather that the club has Puckeridged it themselves. We are told that machinery was driven across the track during recent remedial works in a way that damaged the course proper, and […]
Vo Rogue 2.00.7 – Creswick Handicap 1987 (Fast 2) – Flemington 2.00.9 – Australia Cup 1990 (Good 3) – Flemington 2.01.3 – Turnbull Stakes 1987 (Good 3) – Flemington 2.01.6 – Australia Cup 1989 (Good 3) – Flemington 2.01.9 – Turnbull Stakes 1988 (Fast 2) – Flemington Makybe Diva 1.58.73 – Australia Cup 2005 (Good […]
Maxwelton is a town of just 22 people located in the middle of nowhere, but there was plenty of action at the races yesterday. The QRIC sent Karl Stefanovic’s cousin Sharon out to take urine swabs from the female riders. There were a whole 2 at the meeting. The whole town and a few assorted […]
It has been pointed out to me that half of the Racing NSW Stewards Panel officiating at the Championships meeting at Royal Randwick yesterday are Queenslanders, each of whom could very well be working here for the QRIC if only it wasn’t such a dysfunctional beast of an outfit. Steve Railton used to be the […]
Kim Kelly is one of the best racing stewards in the world. You don’t become the Chief Stipe in Hong Kong if you are not. Kelly is a Queenslander who owns property on the Sunshine Coast, so when he retired from his super high paying job in Asia he should have been immediatetly grasped with […]
By his own admission, Racing QLD track manager Greg Puckeridge has been involved in some of the greatest track curating cock ups in modern day racing history. On Puckeridge’s Linkedin page he boasts his achievements as including: The successful construction and development of new thoroughbred racetrack rebuild at Charters Towers This track took 4 years […]
