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16/02/15 With confirmation from Labor Party Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk that Bill Byrne will be the new Minister for Racing I thought it would opportune to look into the background of …
11/02/15 With the sad and sudden passing of Dalby racehorse trainer Des Burns in February 2006, following a heart attack, the curtain came down on one of the last great …
05/02/15 It would seem to me as an outsider looking in, that in the long term, the three codes of racing are in for an extremely worrying time – all …
04/02/15 Website visitors often email me to locate a story that they recall reading on Justracing, but now can’t find. Unfortunately there was no index or key word technology when …
27/01/15 It’s no wonder racing is going nowhere as good help is hard to find. Yesterday we had “Saturday city” racing at Sandown in Melbourne with good fields and five …
22/01/15 Having lived in Ipswich for over 38 years, one doesn’t need a very high IQ to see what individuals and/or entities are joined at the hip. And in the …
16/01/15 As I’ve been exclusively writing here for many years “the biggest problem racing has is racing itself”. And so it came to pass that two of the three codes …
12/01/15 The Magic Millions race day at the Gold Coast last Saturday was just wonderful to sit back and observe, because it proved once and for all what a monumental …
08/01/15 The Magic Millions race day, which is scheduled for Saturday, is proof of what I often refer to as “the incestuous world of thoroughbred racing” – yet strangely not …
07/01/15 Yesterday on this website I researched the racetrack performances of 2YO’s that contested the Magic Millions on 11/1/14 and that research revealed the fact that only two of the …
06/01/15 It’s Magic Millions week at the Gold Coast this week and it’s always a good week to have the chukkie bucket very handy as so much vomitable tripe will …
05/01/15 When the sun first peeped its head over the Gold Coast horizon last Saturday morning, the day that is the pre-cursor to the Magic Millions race day seven days …
20/11/14 Drought and living on the land are a dreadful quinella – but more often than not they will be the winning combination. To that end, some images never leave …
17/12/14 Heard the latest? Tattsbet is going to change its name and become UBET. What a stupid idea – as I can think of a stack of negative slogans straight …
12/12/14 Some Queensland and New South Wales racetracks have certainly received plenty of rain this week. In fact on the Weather Channel this morning at 7am they advised that Thangool …
11/12/14 On 13/11/14 on this website I advised readers that I had been gifted a copy of the 1976 book written by the late Clif Cary entitled How Professionals Bet …
09/12/14 Last Saturday was the first Saturday of the implementation of the new and stupid track rating system that the Einsteins at the Australian Racing Board came up with and …
05/12/14 One gets the distinct impression that Brisbane is currently experiencing an embarrassment of riches in the jockey ranks, not so much talent wise, but numbers wise – to a …
03/12/14 On 11 November, I put up the first of what was promised to be a series of articles turning the clock back some 26 years for website visitors, looking …
02/12/14 On 13/11/14 I penned a website story entitled “Exclusive: Clif Cary teaches those punters who would like to learn…..Part 1” and in that story the following was written by …
01/12/14 Well last Saturday saw your typical controversial racing industry in full cry again. Excited parents took their kids to Meet George Jetson at Doomben, but after paying some …
28/11/14 There is no shadow of doubt that the thoroughbred racing industry around Australia is so incestuous that it defies belief. Many of the main characters are all mates and …
27/11/14 The late Warwick Hobson wrote a story in Turf Monthly in September 1985 entitled “The Shoe has turned the clock back 20 years!” That story, written about one of …
21/11/14 Australian punters are being duped into betting on “Saturday city races” that in reality aren’t Saturday city races. Tomorrow at Doomben in Brisbane and Ballarat in Victoria are two …
19/11/14 It’s Emirates Stakes day at Flemington. The best thoroughbreds in Australia as well as some talented horses from overseas are appearing at the meeting. The Track Manager, Mick Goode, …
29/10/14 The TAB price that Tasmanian trained galloper The Cleaner finalized at in the Cox Plate last Saturday at Moonee Valley served as a ringing endorsement yet again at what …
28/10/14 Until last Saturday night, I thought I’d seen and/or heard everything in racing. In my 2006 published book I concluded there were 647 variables working against the punter when …
23/10/14 It is my considered opinion that Racing Queensland is doing the thoroughbred industry in Australia a major disservice – and is leaving itself wide open to public ridicule and …
22/10/14 I must say that from what I’ve seen happen in the racing industry over the decades that I’ve been involved in it, nothing really shocks me anymore – but …