27/05/16 With it being Group 1 Doomben 10000 day tomorrow, I thought it would be a good idea to turn the clock back 20 years to 1996 to see what …

26/05/16 It’s funny how a humanoid, on occasions, can’t remember what they did five minutes ago, yet other memories – often from as far back as childhood – are indelibly …

18/05/16 Of all the 649 variables in thoroughbred racing, there is generally one aspect that will forever stand the test of time – and that is the “class” factor of …

12/05/16 Next Saturday is BTC Cup day at Doomben and these days the race is a Group 1 event worth $500,000 in total prizemoney. The race has been afforded Group …

09/05/16 As advised here seven days ago, today’s normal rails bookmaker report by Lindsay Gallagher can’t appear here, as he didn’t field at the Gold Coast last Saturday. Instead he …

05/05/16 2016 is no different to any other year in Australian thoroughbred racing in that a plethora of young stallions will go off to the breeding barn in an attempt …

04/05/16 In recent weeks on this website I researched the results of trainers that are at the top of the Brisbane trainers premiership ladder. The form guide in last Friday’s …

03/05/16 Well in the last couple of weeks on this website I’ve reviewed the “Saturday city” quarterly results of the two trainers at the head of the current Brisbane Premiership …

28/04/16 The Ubet Super Six Trainers race days start on 14 May with the BTC Cup meeting at Doomben, meaning that’s only three Saturdays away, so I’d best get cracking …

21/04/16 Well we unfortunately had to endure that stupid Origin Jockey Series which featured alleged “top” or “champion” jockeys riding some of Queensland’s slowest conveyances around late last year and …

20/04/16 An interesting topic that gets written about very rarely in thoroughbred racing media circles, to help educate punters, relates to the weight that a horse gets handicapped with. Punters …

20/04/16 An interesting topic that gets written about very rarely in thoroughbred racing media circles, to help educate punters, relates to the weight that a horse gets handicapped with. Punters …

19/04/16 When you do what I do, all one has to do is stand in the background and watch the racing industry self destruct. Mainstream media tries its hardest to …

14/04/16 Well after the somewhat forgetful day that was Weetwood Handicap and Toowoomba Cup day 2015 after dramas associated with the track rating starting off as a heavy 8 and …

06/04/16 As advised on Monday my IT people have done a terrific job to get the websites back up and running after they were down for three days following hacking, …

29/03/16 After last Saturday’s Rosehill Group 1 The BMW meeting I’ve reached the conclusion that fining jockeys for overuse of the whip is pretty much a total waste of time. …

24/03/16 Of all the aspects of racing there are two that never cease to amaze me. The first one is advertising via race names. What a total waste of money …

17/03/16 With a heavily advertised Magic Millions QTIS yearling sale on at the Gold Coast about to happen over two days next week – Monday and Tuesday – I couldn’t …

14/03/16 Well I’ve been exclusively writing up the fact for ages that it was going to happen one day and the Racing Queensland stewards at the Caloundra TAB meeting last …

10/03/16 In Part 1 of this two part story yesterday I looked at how TABs and racing administrators are pretty much useless at coming up with new and innovative racing …

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 …