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15/05/15 Yesterday on this website I wrote an extensive article in which the Chairman of Racing Queensland, Kevin Dixon, advised all and sundry in a radio interview on RadioTAB last …
07/05/15 It’s Doomben Cup day on Saturday – just two more sleeps – for those that are getting excited by the alleged Group 1 field that will come together on …
29/04/15 The Toowoomba Turf Club should feel humbled to have a horse with the possible potential of Pornichet nominated to run in the Toowoomba Cup at the track next Saturday. …
24/04/15 The Queensland Winter Racing Carnival kicks off tomorrow with a nine-race card at the Gold Coast, but the day has me worried right from the start, as I cannot …
23/04/15 The Brisbane Winter Carnival takes centre stage in Australian thoroughbred racing from next Saturday right up until 6 June when Queensland’s signature race, the Stradbroke Handicap is run and …
30/04/15 Toowoomba’s signature sprint race, the Weetwood Handicap, may be run and won on Saturday at Clifford Park racetrack, with “may” being the operative word, judging by the latest weather …
15/04/15 On face value, from a prizemoney perspective, it’s fair to say that the top echelon of Australian racing, across its three codes, paints a healthy impression of the industry. …
16/04/15 Yesterday I advised that the racing industry needs to take big steps right now to do something constructive for the industry into the future “from a welfare perspective”. So …
09/04/15 Mid last week brisbanetimes.com.au first broke the story of 55 greyhound carcasses being found in bushland near Bundaberg. They’re the same mob that stole a copyrighted photo that I …
07/04/15 When you do what I do for 18 years, you often go out of your way to help people in the dog-eat-dog world that is racing, but you can …
02/04/15 Punters have at least been given plenty of notice to start looking for wet trackers over the Easter weekend of racing at Doomben in Brisbane and Randwick in Sydney. …
25/03/15 At the outset let me advise that I attended the greyhound industry meeting at Albion Park last night at 7pm – and it was what I’d call a “lively” …
24/03/15 Firstly to catch up on some homework I’m getting it confirmed from what I would call “multiple very reliable sources” that the Gatton race meeting last Thursday was called …
12/03/15 Magic Millions has 394 Lots set down for sale over two days of selling next week – March 16 and 17. The sale kicks off at 11am next Monday …
05/03/15 It would seem to me as an outsider looking in, that Racing Queensland’s knee-jerk reaction to the negative publicity that the 4 Corners story generated about greyhound racing a …
04/03/15 It is my considered opinion that the current catastrophic problems that have beset the racing industry via the 4 Corners expose on problems in the greyhound industry would have …
27/02/15 Racing Queensland hierarchy continue to implode with news yesterday that the Toowoomba track is incapable of holding scheduled race meetings on Friday 6 March and Saturday 14 March. And …
25/02/15 Yesterday’s website story on what Racing Queensland Chairman Kevin Dixon and Racing Queensland CEO Darren Condon stated in the 2013/2014 Annual Report sparked a flurry of emails given the …
24/02/15 Following on from the cobalt and greyhound racing scandals that have imploded on racing in the last few weeks, I thought that I’d go back and review what was …
23/02/15 A Sunday afternoon is, in any fair person’s assessment, an odd time for the racing industry to be invoking radical changes at its senior level, but that’s exactly what …
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 …