What’s Gone On Here?
Trainer Jay Morris seems to be in a bit of trouble. We have been told why, but can’t say. What’s gone on here? Watch this space.
Another One Bites the Dust – And a Man Gets Two Broken Legs – This Has To Stop – Right Now
We have been warning people about the dangers of Tanya Parry’s method of racing busted horses in the bush for ages, not because we have anything against Parry personally, because we don’t. Because we know that busted horses break down, and that puts people and horses in peril. We saw it today at Cloncurry when […]
Hope You Took the Tip
As we predicted earlier in the week, Bobo (trainer B0dine Bailey) has scratched his horse that was never ever going to run Seventies Hit from the Cairns meeting on Sunday. Bailey also scratched another one of his acceptors Smart Mission from a race at the meeting too, which is no surprise because best guesses are […]
Racing QLD Issues Warning About False News Being Spread by Hedley Supporters in Cairns Jockey Club Election Race
RACING Queensland has issued a warning about “inaccurate or misleading” information in the lead up to Cairns Jockey Club elections, with ballot papers due by Monday for next Wednesday’s annual general meeting. By Nick Dalton, Cairns Local https://www.cairnslocalnews.com.au/warning-issued-about-jockey-club-elections-2026-10-09 Edge Hill businesswoman Rebecca Conlan is challenging long-time president Tom Hedley for the role. In a statement […]
A Pretty Poor Show All Round
We were told just prior to 8.00am yesterday that the big race meeting at Gayndah on Saturday had been called off due to to the state of the track (more on that in a moment). By midday there had still been no official notification to the public about the meeting being canned. Then at 12.32pm […]
The Battle of Cairns Turns Dirty
The contest for presidency of the Cairns Jockey Club has turned dirty, with a Tom Hedley aligned committee member this week sending out a highly defamatory message to club members slagging off Hedley’s opponent in the hotly contested election Rebecca Conlan, and making false and misleading claims that her election would likely result in RQ […]
Time for Big Change
WHITFIELD businesswoman Rebecca Conlan is riding high to become the first female president of the Cairns Jockey Club (CJC). By Nick Dalton, Cairns Local News cairnslocalnews.com.au The racing horse owner and fashionista has decades of experience in the industry and is challenging long-time president Tom Hedley for the role. Ballot papers to about 290 members […]
Some Anxious Days Ahead For Certain Riders
It is difficult to tell without the benefit of a head-in replay – which we don’t have because Racing QLD has censored it from its website – but it seems to me that one or more jockeys might have some big problems when the inquiry into the dual fall at Townsville on Sunday that put […]
Bobo Pulls a Rort – And Shows That the Stewards are Living in the 70’s
Bobo the greatest show on turf has managed to pull off a masterstroke. Preparing a horse to race on a four day preparation. Up until 8.58am today (Wednesday) the horse Seventies Hit had been spelling. But the miracle worker that Bobo is has decided the Open 1250m at Cairns on Sunday with only four original […]
Lively Thoughts
Archie As a horseman, I can tell you that from the visual of the replay it looked sore in the rear end to me. Hence why it didn’t want to muster out of the gates and go at all. Bill from Boulia Editor’s Note I reckon its structurally unsound