Passionate Plaudits For Pat
Pat Duff, with more than six decades in the industry, was the standout at last Sunday’s TAB Thoroughbred Awards ceremony at Brisbane’s City Hall.
Pat Duff, with more than six decades in the industry, was the standout at last Sunday’s TAB Thoroughbred Awards ceremony at Brisbane’s City Hall.
Leading Nanango jockey Hannah Richardson was undefeated at Eidsvold last Saturday.
A rash of events around the South Burnett on Saturday, September 10 may have reduced attendances at Nanango’s Spring Race meeting a little this year.
Nanango Race Club president Andrew Green and his father Barry will be hoping that their local turf will prove fertile on Saturday.
Nanango trainer Glenn Richardson had a welcome change of luck on Saturday when Infinite Joy, narrowly beaten on the heavy track at Lee Park on Cup day, prevailed for Emily Lang at Kilcoy.
There’s a bumper eight races at Nanango Cup Day … and bumper prize money for the Fashions of the Field competition!
Saturday’s South Burnett Race Club meeting looks like it will be very well-contested, with 14 reserves across three of the five contests.
Racegoers at Lee Park on Saturday will take special interest in the last leg of the Burnett To The Beach series.
There are strong rays of hope that this weekend’s racing in Queensland will escape all the latest weather upheavals.
UPDATE: Saturday’s race meeting has been abandoned due to the rain. Racing will now go ahead at Nanango on Sunday, May 29.
I wonder what the pioneers who put together the first Burrandowan race meeting on Burra Burri Road at Chahpingah would make of this year’s event?
The Anzac Day fixture at Wondai was one of thrills and spills.
After Hannah and Glenn Richardson advanced their attack for premiership honours at Nanango on Easter Saturday, a different clash will unfold at Wondai on Monday.
The Glenn Richardson trained I Am Fearless humped 64 kilograms to victory at Gympie last Saturday.
Former Oakey trainer Patrick Sexton had a very profitable time at his first try on his new home ground at Lee Park.
After Aypeetee’s November victory at Mount Perry, Nanango’s Glenn and Hannah Richardson have had a frustrating run.
As Les “Bubba” Tilley approached the Doomben winning post on the back of V.J. Day earlier this month, he expressed his primary thoughts by pointing skywards.
Peter Thornton was on to a good thing when he put his Red Dazzler mare Miss Bam to Better Than Ready.
If Kitty Kat’s Kitten strikes form in the first race at Kumbia on Tuesday, some lucky punters will have backed the Whittington mare because of the pink silks worn by Hannah Phillips.
It was very fitting that female riders dominated the show at last Saturday’s Wondai race meeting that included the running of the Monica Ryan Demircan Memorial.