Why does racing penalise the little bloke?
Ups and downs
A few readers might be disappointed if I did not record the latest outing by their “champion” stayer Sweet It Is.
On Saturday night at The Meadows she took care of a small bunch of honest plodders in a handicap event. After correcting for handicaps and track differences, she ran the equivalent of 15 lengths slower than her win in the Nationals at Wentworth Park a week earlier. The track was on the slow side but not by that sort of margin.
That tells you more about the ranks of Australian stayers than anything else.
Beautiful but broke
A departmental discussion paper has revealed a worrying history of finances for Queensland racing. Racing Queensland profits and losses are …
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