It is likely that at some point during Racing Queensland’s current consultations about the Queensland Racing Industry, the notion of reducing the number of non-TAB meetings, clubs and courses will be raised as a money-saving strategy.
The Nanango Race Club is holding its annual Heritage Bank Nanango Springtime Race Meeting on Saturday – always one of its most colourful meetings of the year.
Nothing beats being there. If you want to appreciate the actual speed of a fast-bowler’s delivery or the power of a Roger Federer forehand, you should be a first hand witness.
Well-known Toowoomba TV and radio broadcaster and race-caller Pat O’Shea, 64, has died in hospital after a short illness.
An era came to an end this week when President John Lee did not seek re-election at the Nanango Race Club’s Annual General Meeting
Kumbia horseman James Curtain hasn’t saddled a runner since The Equine Bolt stepped out at Ipswich on May 27.
Tragedy has struck well-known country jockey Billie-Rose Derbyshire.
The LNP has predicted country racing in Queensland has a gloomy future following answers given at an Estimates hearing last week.
The treatment of greyhounds and the exposed problems of the dogs’ short-life expectancy problem has crystallised a looming challenge for the thoroughbred sector.
The South East Country Racing Association was represented by its President Lyle Murray at a key Racing Queensland planning session conducted at Eagle Farm on Thursday.
The “horses for courses” motto applied with a human wist at Lee Park last Saturday.
Nanango Cup day is always one of the Nanango Race Club’s biggest meetings of the year … and this year it also delivered a day of big surprises.
Saturday’s big Nanango Cup meeting at Lee Park will be an extra race bigger this year, thanks to a washed out card at Warwick last Saturday and Racing Queensland’s unwillingness to stage a replacement meeting
The Nanango Race Club will be holding its traditional Nanango Cup Race Meeting at the Lee Park Racecourse on Saturday, August 1. And it will be even bigger than usual.
Whilst August 1 signals the beginning of a brand new racing season, the date is also an opportunity for appreciative reflection.
Fifty years ago the Beatles released their “Help” album. And the lyrics of its stand-out hit “Yesterday”, first heard in 1965, seem an apt backdrop to this week’s worrying political developments.
The South Burnett Race Club’s popular Anzac Day meeting in Wondai delivered its traditional benefit to Legacy on Saturday.
Given that weather forecasters are expecting icy days ahead, the Winter Wonderland fashion theme for Saturday’s Wondai program should provide an ideal dress rehearsal
The South Burnett Race Club will be holding its traditional Winter Race Meeting at the Wondai Racecourse on Saturday, July 11.
Hivesville trainer Peter Blackwell is giving Count Romano a crack at the metric two miles of the $150,000 Queensland Cup (3200m) at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.
