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 …

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 …