Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Looks like a boom spray has been involved. Chemical from the previous treatment hasn’t been rinsed out properly. Subsequent aesthetic chemical put in to green it up for the tv camera from 600m to winning post. Treatment applied and the first 30m has been the residual from previous treatment and we have a dead square, […]
Having clocked up hundreds of hours of being on the track in 25 years at Burnie and beyond with the water truck operating a boom spray that looks way too regular a patch for the boom spray to have being turned around on whilst still on. The laws of physics mean that the inside of […]
Lucky Lingard has been on fire over at his ever excellent website letsgohorseracing.com, and his last two in depth articles have been crackers. Here is the first of them about the Gold Coast track debacle. It’s a stuff up not sabotage says Lucky, and I believe him. Have a read and see what you think. […]
By award winning racing writer John Lingard letsgohorseracing.com.au (Reproduced with permission) PRESSURE is mounting on the new LNP Government to instruct Racing Queensland to deliver a ‘please explain’ to the Brisbane Racing Club over its continued refusal to immediately provide a copy of the minutes of the controversial AGM that was held in October. Several […]
The last time Grubby Day turned up half-pissed to ride after a big night out he spotted the RBT and bolted, then hid in the toilet when the testers went looking for him at the caravan park that he was staying in. N. Day was later able to convince the QLD Racing Appeals Panel that […]
We told you last month about a trainer having been stood down for inappropriately touching a young female jockey as she was being legged up aboard the horse she was riding for him at a country QLD meeting. Inappropriate is not actually the right word to describe the trainer’s outrageous actions – it was an […]
The Gold Coast Turf Club is telling the world that it’s problematic new track has been poisoned. Is it true? If so, whodunnit? And how, and why? What would be the motivation for some miscreant to sneak out on to the Bundall track – presumably in the wee hours, under the cover of darkness – […]
Lozen was only just turned four-year-old when she lost her life in the twilight at Clifford Park on Saturday afternoon. Well I say lost, but really it was taken from her by the on-course vets, who made the ‘humane’ decision to euthanize the mare in preference to attempting to operate on the mare as Namazu’s […]
The owner of Chocmint are the most optimistic people in the world. They’d have to be, for who but a true believer in miracles would have nominated this horse to race at Cairns on Saturday? Chocmint is actually dead you see, He has been in the place where nobody wants to go – six feet […]
The good news from the Ricky Vale yard is that Namazu’s surgery went as well as could be expected, and the big bloke is comfortable and well. If Namazu gets through the next fortnight of post-op recovery without any concerns he will be in the clear and soon will be picking straws of grass in […]
