Believe it or not, this is a member of a well-known Queensland racing family riding racehorses work in England last week in preparation for the English jumps season. Who is he? Click on to the Brisbaneracing website when you have finished reading this one - and all will be revealed.

Eagle Farm conducted an eight race programme on a beautiful summer’s day in Brisbane, where the track was rated as a “good 3” for the entire meeting.

Fast times were the order of the day with last race winner Ollie Vollie running within 0.70 of a second off the track record held by Century Kid. Obviously there was an unannounced gear change on the horse of “heart and lung transplant on” as the 7YO gelding had gone like a camel at his previous start at Randwick on Boxing Day when as a 50/1 chance he ran ninth of fourteen to the ordinary conveyance Altered Boy, which wouldn’t get hot if he was brought to Brisbane.

The win by Ollie Vollie nevertheless completed a winning double for visiting Tamworth trainer Sue Grills and young apprentice Tim Bell, who shows definite promise. They had combined earlier in the day to win with the Peter Snowden cast-off Dealers, which Darley wisely gave the flick to, following his seventh of twelve to old aged pensioner Mustard on 19/12/09 at Randwick. As has been written here before, it is no wonder that Sue Grills has more idea than most about training a racehorse, as she is the niece of the late Somerton trainer Keith Swan who won a stack of country premierships around New South Wales by as far as you could throw your hat. Keith Swan's best horse was arguably Indian Chief who won a Ramornie Handicap when ridden by the kid that had been apprenticed to him - now Gold Coast based jockey Gary Baker.

Glen Killen who won the Stradbroke on Sir Wisp at 100/1 way back in 1977, when that galloper defeated Tiger Town and Maybe Mahal, returned to the Saturday winners circle in Brisbane by scoring a half a win on dead heater D’Jet in Race 2 at 40/1 with bookies - and better than that on the tote. Then yesterday at Caloundra he rode Race 3 winner Roctonic which paid $41.60 on Unitab, so if he keeps riding long priced winners like that, he’ll quickly become about as popular as a pork chop in a synagogue with punters.

Got any scoops today on Justracing, I hear you shout? Well just two will do - firstly Chris Munce will return to ride in Brisbane permanently during 2010 citing a lack of opportunity in Sydney and secondly Stathi Katsidis will start flying to Sydney to ride mid-week for trainer Chris Waller, sooner rather than later.

From the Eagle Farm betting ring leading rails bookmaker Lindsay Gallagher reported:

Race 1 – Frozone $3.80, Raincoat $3.80 and Bugsytwoshoes $8.00

The first race was won by Frozone, who is a promising stayer, after a perfect ride by Colless. He got out to $3.80 and $4 at the jump, but no big money came for him either on the phones or in the ring.

There was money for Raincoat late in betting at $3.80.

Fly To Win was probably the best backed runner in the race and she firmed from $3.80 to run at $3.

It was a race you could have won or lost on.

Race 2 – Starstreamed $2.80, D’Jet $41.00 and True Blue Angel $8.00

I laid one decent bet on the odds-on favourite Sister Havana on the phones at $1.90 and as there was no money for anything else in the race, it was a winning race.

Race 3 – Honour Happy List $4.80, Showciti $7.00 and Express Air $7.00

This race was won by Honour Happy List and she was well backed from $6.50 into $4.80 and plenty of money came for her on the phones and she was backed off the map really.

Express Air was backed late in betting and there was some money for Humma at $3.20 late in betting also, so we could lay three horses in the race, but it was a losing race.

Race 4 – Dealers $3.70, Leapfrog $2.35 and Jad $7.50

Big money came for this winner Dealers on the phones and he was the first horse backed and you could get as much as you wanted out of the horse on the phones at $3.70 and $3.60 and he firmed into $3.20. He eased out late in betting back to $3.70 when money came for the favourite Leapfrog, which saw him firm up from $2.50 into $2.35.

I laid a large bet also on Firedrake, so it finished up a fair betting race and it depends how much you laid Dealers for early, as to whether you won or lost on the race.

Race 5 – Moonan Kathleen $8.00, Tonkatsu $6.50 and Morcombe $31.00

This was only an average betting race. There was money for Tonkatsu and she firmed from $8 to $6.50.

Inanna was unlayable, Pegunny Roy was hard to lay, and Pub Torque was specked, but really the only horse you could lay to any degree was Stop Lying and he was heavily backed and firmed from $6 into $4.40. There were a couple of surges on the phones from different people for the galloper, so in the end everyone wanted to be on the same horse and it finished up being a winning result when he ran ninth.

Race 6 – Fifteen Carat $6.50, Under Construction $17.00 and Millers Wheel $14.00

This winner Fifteen Carat has always looked a promising galloper. He settled a lot closer than a lot of people probably thought he would, which no doubt made the difference between winning and losing. There was no big money for him though at the $6.50 quote.

Under Construction was specked around the ring from $31 into $17 and only went down by a head.

Sandton was specked late in betting at $12.

There was an avalanche of money, particularly on the phones, for Lucky Omens and he was $3.80 into $2.80. On the way in I even got asked the question “how much” I’d lay the horse to lose at $3.30, so it was a big go, but the horse didn’t fire.

Eureka was specked at odds.

It was generally a winning race.

Race 7 – Sweepstaking $2.80, Redibis $17.00 and Santo De Lago $12.00

This winner Sweepstaking was off the map. She’s had two runs back from a spell and has landed a plunge on both occasions. I laid a string of bets against her and the biggest single bet took out $50,000 – so needless to say this was a losing race when daylight ran second to the winner.

Santo De Lago was specked at odds and I laid Rapid Leica Jacko at odds on the phones to a smart client, so he’s probably ready to do something.

There was also money for Magic Millions Day Maiden winner Retrospect at $8 and the concerted move firmed his price up from $8 to $6.50, but he never fired.

Race 8 – Ollie Vollie $14.00, Pride Of Power $10.00 and Eire Of Magic $3.30

This last race finished up a very good betting race.

There was any amount of money for Eire Of Magic. He firmed up from $3.70 to $3.20 at one stage, but finished up easing to $3.30 when an avalanche of money came for Charming Rogue and really you could get whatever you wanted out of both runners.

There was also money about for Frosty, but when Ollie Vollie arrived, we’d got the two heavily backed commodities beaten, which gave us a big winning result and sent us home on the right side of the ledger.

Lindsay will be fielding this week at Ipswich on Wednesday, the Sunshine Coast on Friday and back to Eagle Farm on Saturday.