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 …

18/12/14 There is no shadow of a doubt that the aftermath of the Villiers Handicap at Randwick last Saturday was what most racing people found more intriguing than the actual …

14/10/14 If one didn’t learn something after watching thoroughbreds for over four-and-a-half decades, one would have to be an extremely thick humanoid. In that timeframe I’ve seen many “worldbeaters” and/or …

01/10/14 On yesterday’s website story I wrote of the “pathetic” run of Scissor Kick last Saturday in the Stan Fox Stakes at Rosehill, as whilst he was indeed three wide …

06/10/14 Rails bookmaker, Lindsay Gallagher, didn’t field at the Gold Coast meeting last Saturday so his normal Monday column will be back next week. So today there’s another exclusive story …

18/09/14 One gets the distinct impression that the dawning of the 2014/2015 thoroughbred breeding season has the Kruger family at one of Queensland’s oldest and most successful stud farms, Lyndhurst …

10/09/14 As a website pioneer for the racing industry and having proudly put the first race club, stud, jockey and trainer on the Internet in this country, one could mount …

28/08/14 The following story was written by the late Graham Dawson in the May 1990 edition of Turf Monthly and gives a wonderful insight into the day that Hall of …

27/08/14 As I wrote on this website, on Thursday of last week, in respect of the new Racing Queensland prizemoney distribution re the three codes, “It wouldn’t matter whether you …

22/08/14 To the best of my knowledge, only two media outlets – the long established South East Queensland based racing websites Justracing and Letsgohorseracing – have dared to question the …

13/08/14 I must say that when I looked at the fields for Flemington last Saturday and in typical male fashion I was confused. We had nine races on the program …

01/08/14 I try to pride myself on giving everyone in the racing industry a fair go, for as I’m not perfect – by any stretch of the imagination – so …

31/07/14 It’s simply a fact of life that most marriages fail. The current attrition rate is about 43% (source aipc.net.au website), so in racing parlance, the humanoids tying the knot …

23/07/14 I get so many emails telling me what I’m doing wrong with my four websites that I’m surprised some of the Einsteins that send me their crap don’t actually …

01/07/14 Over the 17 years that this website has been operating I’ve written numerous articles advising punters that it’s “impossible to win on the punt long term”. The odd professional …

24/06/14 Tatt’s day in Brisbane has, for some strange reason historically degenerated into a bookmakers benefit and yet again last Saturday it’s a no brainer that bookies had the better …

19/06/14 I got to thinking after Brave Ali led all the way to win the Ipswich Cup last Saturday that maybe it’s time to tweak the race. I mean, if …

18/06/14 Last Friday night I penned a story entitled “Best Bets and Sportsman charge top dollar for their publication yet both struggle with just getting the basics right”. In that …

17/06/14 You know Wayne Wilson’s words that I wrote last week upon his sad passing of “a difference of opinion is what makes the world go round” came home to …