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 …

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 …