Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie You are wrong about the Stewards inspection at Wondai. I was there. Steward Simon Fletcher didn’t just drive the car around the track an hour before the first. He got out multiple times and poked a measuring stick into the track. Testing I don’t know what. He alighted from the car and proudly displayed […]
The bloke in the picture taken from an RQ piss up at the Derby meeting at Eagle Farm on Saturday afternoon is Shane Scriven, the former jockey who slaughtered Octagonal in the 1995 Victorian Derby. He weighed a lot less then. These days Scrivo is the apprentice training and mentoring boss at Racing QLD. One […]
The race caller at Tambo on Saturday declared Coronation Day on the inside the winner of race 1. It wasn’t. The outside won. Oh well, it was a close photo so you can forgive the man with the specs his mistake. Or you could if that was all if he had got wrong, but it […]
Isn’t this a wonderful look? Racing QLD Racing Operations Manager Ross Gove and the chief Handicapper Nathan Bourke in the members area on the piss with friends at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Meanwhile both of them missed the major handicapping error that occurred at Townsville the next day. Perhaps if they paid more attention to […]
Race 1: PARKER’S PLUMBING & GASFIT OPEN Handicap (1100 METRES) ABLETT – Raced three-wide without cover throughout. Laid in under pressure in the home straight. HENRY’S BLADE – Blundered and dislodged its rider approaching the 300m. Upon veterinary examination it was revealed that the gelding had sustained a serious injury to its off-foreleg and was […]
Twenty minutes after our story about the major handicapping error in race 4 at Townsville today was published, QRIC issued the above tweet on its official X account acknowledging the mistake and advising punters who hadn’t already read it here that it had happened. A few minutes later the tweet disappeared, presumably having been removed […]
I am not sure whether to describe what went on at yesterday’s non-TAB meeting at Wondai in QLD as a tragedy or a farce. It was probably both, and there but for the grace of God could have been a whole lot worse. A runner in the first race fell. Henry’s Blade was its name, […]
See the ratings of the horse Smart Mission in the screenshot above taken from the Racing Australia (RISA) website above? Smart Mission has dropped 11 ratings points after its last start 5th at Mackay. Horses don’t drop eleven points after a loss. They drop one. Racing QLD have made a serious error here. As a […]
Tomorrow’s big race meeting at Eagle Farm should be dubbed Invasion Day, because that’s what it is, with trainers from interstate dominating the runners on the program, particularly in the black type races. Queensland trained horses are notable by their absence from the Group 1 Derby, with only 3 of the 18 likely starters trained […]
The second full moon for May. Let’s hope it augurs well for winners. There is a full book of them here at Caulfield on Saturday. Moving up to Brisbane and the Kingsford Smith Cup (race 8) … as President of the Splash Back Fan Club I would just like to say “Go Splashy!!!!” Good luck […]
