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09/03/16 Forget optimism and pessimism, if one is simply a realist as I am, it’s very easy to stand back and smell the roses and accept that the way things …

03/03/16 In my lifetime following thoroughbred form, I’ve noted that numerous track record breakers go like dromedaries at their next start and to that end I researched a story on …

24/02/16 Century was one of the great stallions that stood in Australia post World War 2. His best sons to prove themselves out on the racetrack of dreams then stand …

17/02/16 There is no shadow of a doubt that in the 1970s in Australia one of the best racehorses was the Victorian trained galloper Taj Rossi.   Taj Rossi was …

11/02/16 The day is Saturday 6 June 1998 – and that means it’s Stradbroke day. And thanks to an obviously astute and wonderful elderly man and website devotee who contacted …

10/02/16 The Toowoomba trained galloper Dalrello was arguably one of the best gallopers produced in Queensland in the last 50 years.   The foal that would grow up to be …

04/02/16 On 23/12/15 on this website I put up a story entitled, “Exclusive: Queensland Thoroughbred Stallions Pathetic 2YO Results Season-To-Date”. In that story I stated, “I’ve noted in the 2015-2016 …

03/02/16 Australian history would suggest that the biggest event that occurred during 1966 was the introduction of decimal currency on the 14th of February of that year when dollars and …

01/02/16 There was an interesting protest at the Sunshine Coast yesterday afternoon in the Listed Sunshine Coast Cup after Pillar of Creation got home by a short half head in …

20/01/16 When his eyes closed for the final time last week, the Queensland harness racing lost a man whose amazing ability to research and write stories will live on throughout …

21/01/16 In yesterday’s Justracing website story on the sad passing of harness racing author Raymond Lowndes – whose funeral is on at 2pm today – he’d advised that opening night …

31/12/15 As this is the last story that will go up on this website until next Monday (4/1/16) when rails bookmaker Lindsay Gallagher’s betting ring report from the Caloundra meeting …

24/12/15 Firstly let me wish all website visitors and valued clients to the various website services a safe and happy Christmas. No story will go up here tomorrow but apart …

30/12/15 As was exclusively advised by Justracing back at the start of 2015, ironically not long before the racing industry was blown apart by sickening Four Corners television footage, “animal …

11/12/15 As today is 11 December we only have 14 more sleeps before Christmas prior to the big fat man in a red suit turning up with one or more …

10/12/15 So yesterday’s story on this website reinforced what everyone in Queensland racing industry knew which was, “Houston we have a problem,” which I referred to as “a speed bump”. …

08/12/15 As mentioned in yesterday’s website story, last Sunday was another glaring example of how in racing in Queensland we for far too long have seemingly had the mentality of …

27/11/15 Thankfully last Saturday is but a distant memory with all that transpired on the day but I omitted to mention that I thought the Ballarat club and Racing Victoria …

30/10/15 Well it’s Victoria Derby day on the first of what will be four big days of racing at Flemington and as regularly happens a dreadful field of pretenders have …

21/10/15 I have to have a giggle at how so many “experts” in thoroughbred racing get so many free plugs all the time in mainstream media – particularly in these …

14/09/15 The two Group 1 races that were run along the eastern seaboard last Saturday afternoon were run in vastly different ways. The Golden Rose in Sydney was certainly a …

14/10/15 I thought the big 10-race card from Caulfield last Saturday, which included four Group 1 races, would give me a good barometer to be able to pen yet another …

07/10/15 Over the 18 years that this website has been functioning, I’ve constantly used constructive arguments to slam racing administrators. Yet 18 years on and they obviously aren’t getting any …

26/08/15 There’s a saying that goes “cream generally rises to the top”. And it’s been proven to be an accurate saying a thousand times over – across many different facets …

24/07/15 Technically speaking, the Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield is supposed to be the highlight of thoroughbred racing around Australia tomorrow. All I can say is “God save the Governor General, …

07/07/15 One has to have a special admiration for horses that hold track records for long periods of time – in some cases decades. Not many horses hold two metropolitan …

01/07/15 I must say that when I saw all the vacant stables that were on course at the Gladstone racecourse when I visited that city nine days ago, I was …

25/06/15 She’d waited what seemed an eternity for this moment – and for that matter so had I. Both weren’t getting any younger. As their journey was about to reach …

24/06/15 Yesterday I displayed publicly an article which researched the stud career of all advertised stallions that stood in Australia in 1995 – that had had 25 starts or more. …