Icarus, Daedelus and a Couple of Horse Trainers From Toowoomba – Run Too Fast, Fly Too High? – I Guess We’ll See Soon

From mid-December until near the end of February team Sears went 38 starts without a win, but then the drought broke and the father and daughter combo trained 30 winners in less than 3 months. They were flying, flying so high that they almost reached the sun. Did you ever hear that story about the […]

Want to See the Best Drive in the World? – Watch This – And This Kid Can’t Get a Metro License? – The QRIC Would Have to be Kidding, Wouldn’t They? (Updated)

Angus Garrard is the greatest young talent to take the reins on a Queensland harness racing track in the 21st century, and unlike some of his predecessors, he’s as clean as a whistle too. The kid is only sixteen, and still at school for another year and a half, and for ill-stated reasons the racing […]

Guess What Former Racing Queensland CEO Eliot ‘ET’ Forbes Latest Job Is? – Heading a Front Outfit for the Live Horse Export Industry – Giddy Up

A qualified veterinarian with a Master of Business Administration degree, Dr Forbes has a deep interest in animal welfare This is what Steve ‘Whirlwind’ Wilson, the barely seen Chairman of Racing Queensland, said about former  CEO Eliot ‘ET’ Forbes when he appointed him to run racing in the Sunshine State in 2016. Dr Forbes – […]

I’m Not a Vet, Jockey, Steward, Pull-Up Merchant or Nobbler, But …… Have You Seen the First Race at Toowoomba Yesterday?

Race one at Toowoomba yesterday, a 3-year-old Maiden Plate run over the unusual distance of 870 metres,  was one of the strangest races I have seen for quite a while, a really, really queer one. There were four horses in the betting. The topweight Calculated Risk, trained by Craig Smith at Roma, was steady in […]

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