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USA bound Rockhampton filly scores first up at Callaghan Park Wasabi Barbie, destined to go to America later this season, was an impressive first ...

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Racing returns to Callaghan Park this Friday, following a six-week hiatus due to track renovations and irrigation works. Seven races will be run ...

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Racing Queensland’s Marty Synan inspected the Callaghan Park track ahead of Friday’s return to racing, giving the Club the green light following ...

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Rockhampton businessman and racehorse owner Peter Boodle has been elected as the chairman of the Rockhampton Jockey Club Management Committee. At ...

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ROCKHAMPTON JOCKEY CLUB inc. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday 16 September 2026, at 5.30pm Items of Business Opening of Annual General Meeting ...

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Election or Appointment of the Management Committee in accordance with Rule 8.2 of the Rockhampton Jockey Club. At 5.00pm, 2nd September 2026, ...

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RQ is pleased to announce the appointment of Matt Henderson as Chief Starter Specialist. Matt is no stranger, having worked at RQ from 2009-2016 ...

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The Northern Queensland Winter Racing Carnival will go to another level in 2027, with a boost in prizemoney to see almost $3.5 million go up for ...

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Taylor opens new season’s winning account with a double Short-priced favourite Red Scentsation didn’t give his opposition a look in, easily ...

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The final race meeting before track renovations get underway at Callaghan Park will be run and won on Tuesday afternoon, with seven races set out ...

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Rockhampton trainers came within 1.3 lengths off clean-sweeping the six-race program at Mackay on Thursday, with Kevin Miller and Ricky Vale ...

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Star mare Sheza Alibi is set to kick off her spring carnival in Saturday’s Group 1 Winx Stakes (1400m), where a clash of the titans beckons ...

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Take notice that the Annual General Meeting of the Rockhampton Jockey Club Incorporated will be held on 16th September 2026 commencing at 5:30pm ...

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Breeding barn beckons talented mares She may just have one more race start, before she retires to the breeding barn, but the talented Track Tale ...

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A seven-race card at Rockhampton on Thursday will kick off the 26/27 racing season, with Race 1 scheduled for 1:17pm. The RJC will recognise last ...

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It was another very successful weekend for Rockhampton-based trainers, with Alisha Taylor, Ricky Vale and Maree Skillington landing winners at ...

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Pride Of Venus has been crowned the Rockhampton Horse of the Year for the 2025/26 racing season, after scoring four wins, a second and a third at ...

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For 35 minutes on Saturday, Rockhampton-based trainer Ricky Vale led the Queensland Metropolitan Premiership. Vale sent last month’s TAB ...

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RJC 2025/26 Premiership Winners announced Friday’s meeting at Callaghan Park wrapped up the 2025/26 racing season, and in turn, the Premiership ...

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Rockhampton Jockey Club officials and racing industry participants woke up to the sad news today of the passing of long serving committee member ...

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The curtain will close on the 2025/26 racing season on Friday at Callaghan Park, when eight races are run and won. The afternoon shapes as a ...

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Thoroughbred racing is delivering big bucks to the Central Queensland economy. The latest independent economic data, released this week, has once ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club Management Committee elected Brandon Diplock to the position of Chairman, at last night’s meeting of the committee. ...

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Long time between drinks for I Am Voodoo Six-year-old gelding I Am Voodoo posted his first victory in more than a year when he scored a surprise ...

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Seven races will be set out for decision at Callaghan Park on Tuesday, in what will be the Club’s first meeting since July 11’s TAB Rockhampton ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club announced today that Rob Carr has stepped down from the committee and the position of chairman, after a decade of ...

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Pint-sized grey will chase the Northern Crowns Bonus after fabulous Rockhampton Cup victory A plan hatched months ago by astute Sunshine Coast ...

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Toowoomba trainer zeroes in on Cup Day feature double John Dann’s horse truck rolled into Callaghan Park racecourse around midday on Wednesday, ...

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Townsville star sprinter wins the One Syndications Newmarket In a marvelous training triumph Townsville trainer, Les Gordy prepared Demon Award ...

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Two families synonymous with Rockhampton’s racing history captured one of Callaghan Park’s rarest victories seventy-four years ago. It is unusual ...

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Sha Of Gomer chases back-to-back Newmarket victories It’s been 12 years since a sprinter has won back-to-back One Syndications Rockhampton ...

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Pepperdine stays on target for TAB Rockhampton Cup Alisha Taylor is hoping Pepperdine is good enough to win the Rockhampton Cup in a few weeks ...

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Jay Bellamy heads to Rocky for his first Tatt’s Gold Cup Day The Bellamy family name has been big in harness racing for decades but now trainer ...

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Pepperdine primed for this month’s Tatt’s Gold Cup Back in winning form, six-year-old gelding Pepperdine is on target for the Tattersall’s Gold ...

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The 2026 Melbourne Cup, the actual iconic trophy that will be presented to the winner of Australia’s greatest and most historic handicap horse ...

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Bill Weeks remembered at Callaghan Park Jockeys wore black armbands in the third race, The Agency Handicap  (1200m) as a mark of respect for ...

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The Northern Queensland Winter Racing Carnival returns in 2026 with more than $4 million in prize money and bonuses on offer across two thrilling ...

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Two trainers and a jockey get winning doubles at Callaghan Park Sunshine Coast trainer Garnett Taylor and jockey Georgina Cartwright, along with ...

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Conqueror of Sheza Alibi primed for another Callaghan Park win He has the rare distinction of beating dual Group 1 winner Sheza Alibi and ...

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Locally bred colt smashes records to top the Capricornia Yearling Sale The Capricornia Yearling Sales at the Rockhampton Showgrounds broke all ...

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Birchley goes back-to-back in Capricornia 2YO Classic Sunshine Coast trainer Liam Birchley picked out the winner of the $168,000 TAB Capricornia ...

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In light of yesterday’s irrigation malfunction at Callaghan Park, the investigation has been completed, with a cracked casing found internally on ...

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“Iron Man” Justin Stanley returns to ride in Saturday’s  Capricornia Classics Highly accomplished jockeys are often viewed as heroes. They excel ...

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The Taylor and Cormack show on Tuesday in Rockhampton Berserker trainer Clinton Taylor increased his long lead in the Rockhampton Trainer’s ...

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Pint-sized filly Wasabi Barbie, a Rockhampton two-year-old bred in Comet and originally raced by Jesse Beak, could be destined for a career as a ...

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Sewell had the luck of the Irish riding with him at Callaghan Park The luck of the Irish was with jockey Adam Sewell at Callaghan Park on ...

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There’s no stopping Sunshine Coast trainer Liam Birchley who bagged another big two-year-old race on Saturday, this time with 2025 Capricornia ...

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Multiple premiership winning rider Justin Stanley may be only a month away from returning to race riding. The popular 45-year-old jockey hasn’t ...

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Let’s hear it for the girls in Memorial Race on St Paddy’s Day Bruce Mckenzie would be chuffed that a half dozen women jockeys have the numbers ...

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Stephanie Tierney scores seven Callaghan Park wins this month. Apprentice jockey Stephanie Tierney has found her winning groove in Rockhampton ...

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Noffke is on a roll with classy fillies While Fred Noffke’s heart and mind will be with his star filly Sheza Alibi at Caulfield on Saturday, his ...

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Bruce McKenzie, the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s oldest member, passed away on Thursday morning following a short illness, aged 97. Mr. McKenzie, ...

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Sunshine Coasters collect a trainer and jockey double Sunshine Coast trainer Stuart Kendrick continues to have a good season at Callaghan Park ...

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Locally bred three-year-old looks primed for a winning debut A three-year-old by exiled Rockhampton stallion Perast is ready to blast off to what ...

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On 12th February 1869, the Rockhampton Jockey Club was officially formed. So, this week is a great reason to celebrate 157 years of the RJC. ...

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Favourites on the outer at Callaghan Park Punters couldn’t take a trick early at Callaghan Park on Thursday with seven favourites, including ...

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Bundy’s shooting star vying for three straight victories With two wins from two starts at Callaghan Park, Presocratics looks to be a horse on the ...

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Capricornia Sales graduates star at Callaghan Park Saraqael was a standout winner at Callaghan Park on Thursday and one of three graduates of the ...

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Callaghan Park back racing 7 days after the flood peak It hasn’t taken long for racing operations to return to normal at Callaghan Park this ...

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A dry flood, perfectly fine sunny days, no rain, all while the river level is rising in the Fitzroy, causing damage to low-lying areas. ...

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Rockhampton Jockey Club – Race Meeting Wednesday, January 21, has been abandoned Racing Queensland (RQ) advises that the race meeting scheduled ...

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Plan for the worst and hope for the best – RJC enacts participant safety and horse welfare measures before flooding occurs Staff, local ...

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Racing Queensland (RQ) advises that the race meeting scheduled for the Rockhampton Jockey Club Sunday, January 18 has been postponed to ...

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Bob calls the shots in year’s opener at Callaghan Park Three-year-old gelding Be Bob Aloola provided trainer Stephen Rundle with the first ...

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Hansen commands a ‘turn to victory’ for Wax On Wax Off in Thursday’s Callaghan Park Maiden A wide barrier draw in a 1050m Maiden Plate could be a ...

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New Zealander Kent Lean has been appointed as the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s senior track curator to manage Callaghan Park’s racetrack and ...

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Christmas comes early for punters at Callaghan Park It was a day for favourites at Callaghan Park with the first four races going to short-priced ...

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Rockhampton Jockey Club has successfully worked with Racing Queensland to have two additional races added to Thursday’s TAB program. The now ...

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A mounting yard mishap before the running of the second race at Gladstone’s Ferguson Park racecourse on Saturday has once again sidelined popular ...

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Cap Sales Graduate impressive on debut It’s been a really good week for the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s Capricornia Yearling Sale, with a few ...

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CYS Sale graduates out to impress at Callaghan Park Two graduates from this year’s 2025 Capricornia Yearling Sales are ready to make their race ...

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The independent Queensland Racing Review 2025 is the most substantial review of Queensland’s racing sector in over 25 years, covering all ...

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Jockey wins the first race twice on the same program It might be a first. The same jockey riding the winner of the first race twice on the same ...

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Satherley’s 3YO topples favourites Saraqael returned to the winners’ list for the first time since March when he found his best form to topple ...

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Mare with a local name, makes its Rocky debut The name Fitzroy Steet is almost as old as Rockhampton itself. Fitzroy Street runs through the city ...

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Rockhampton Jockey Club – Tuesday, December 9 – Additional Race Programmed Racing Queensland confirms that an additional race has been ...

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Erimar survives a protest to win the TAB Breeders Plate Trainer Clinton Taylor and his wife Erin had to sweat out a protest hearing before they ...

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Hansen has a solid double hand in the TAB 2YO Breeders’ Plate Callaghan Park trainer Kris Hansen is no stranger to collecting big race wins and ...

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The RJC is looking for a new track manager following the resignation of Trent Williams late last week and an advertisement will appear for the ...

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The Chairman and Committee of the Rockhampton Jockey Club have extended the tenure of Chief Executive Officer David Aldred through to the end of ...

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Jockey Butler stars at Callaghan Park Jockey Ash Butler stood tall at Callaghan Park on Tuesday, riding a treble of winners including the Yeppoon ...

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Oh, my darling, oh my darling, Clementine does it again Darryl Gardiner continues to build an impressive winning strike rate at Callaghan Park. ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club’s busy week has just gotten a whole lot busier. With Saturday’s Yeppoon Country Challenge Cup meeting abandoned, ...

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Just two races were run at Callaghan Park on Thursday before a power outage in Northern suburbs stopped the races. QRIC Stewards and the ...

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Former jockey Jade Doolan back at Callaghan Park as a trainer She was picking up horse manure and doing stable chores as soon as she could walk, ...

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Pepperdine has been a terrific horse for the recently licensed Alisha Taylor to start her training career in Rockhampton. Today at Doomben, the ...

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 Apprentice jockey lands an early Caulfield Cup Day double Apprentice jockey Leah Martyn plucked an early double winning two of the first three ...

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Racegoers are getting ready for a big day of racing, glamour, and entertainment at the not-to-be-missed RJC Caulfield Cup Day at Callaghan Park ...

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Alisha Taylor gets a win with her first Rockhampton starter Alisha Taylor is building a formidable winning strike rate after collecting the Korte ...

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Gladstone sparky amping up for a Rockhampton double with brothers born six years apart Gladstone trainer Ian Prizeman will showcase the old and ...

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Callaghan Park double for locals Green and Olzard Talented three-year-old Our Eagle Rock provided trainer Sileas Green and apprentice jockey ...

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Friday at Callaghan Park will be a day for winners and footy fans can be a winner too. Brisbane Bronco, State of Origin and Australian Rugby ...

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A set of Barrier Trials have been scheduled for Yeppoon on Wednesday 17th September. *Nominations for these trials close at 9.00am Tuesday 16th ...

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The annual renovation of the Callaghan Park turf course proper commenced this morning with the Rockhampton Jockey Club team straight into the ...

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In the final race at Callaghan Park on Thursday apprentice Nikki Olzard reached an important milestone of 100 winning rides. Stuck on 99 wins ...

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Callaghan Park trainer Jess Kuhn saddles her first winning double Berserker’s Jessica Kuhn was in fine form at Callaghan Park on Thursday ...

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Apprentice jockey Brooke Johnson celebrates her 100th win Apprentice jockey Brooke Johnson had 100 reasons to celebrate her most recent victory ...

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Premier trainer off to a flying start for the season Clinton Taylor, the premier Rocky trainer for the past three seasons, is off to a flying ...

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Springboarding off a feature race double in the Gladstone Newmarket and Gladstone Cup, apprentice jockey Nikki Olzard will ride to reach a ...

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This year’s Rockhampton Jockey Cub, TAB Capricornia Yearling Sale 2YO Classic winner Kerzner will do his future racing in Hong Kong after being ...

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Captain Fox salutes for the first time on his home track Before Tuesday he was dubbed the Chief De Beers of Rocky. From 24 starts at Callaghan ...

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Strong Latte ready to perk up Callaghan Park punters If ever a horse was brewing to win a race, then Strong Latte would be percolating and close ...

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With Yeppoon’s 2025/26 racing calendar starting today, it’s a good time to take a walk down memory lane to almost a quarter of a century ago. In ...

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Rookie trainer misses out seeing his first horse win A newly licensed horse trainer based in Bajool, a small rural town with less than 500 people ...

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Three looking for unique doubles in Mackay The three topweights in Saturday’s Mackay Cup (2000m) are each chasing doubles for one reason or ...

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Callaghan Park apprentice jockey McKenzie Apel, an impressive ladder climber this year, travelled to Townsville on the weekend and teamed with ...

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Hooray for Eagle Rock – 2YO beats older horses at Callaghan Park Our Eagle Rock the youngest galloper in the 0-55 Handicap at Callaghan Park ...

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Toowoomba-based apprentice jockey Chloe Lowe will team with Chinchilla trainer Rodney Hay and Rockhampton’s Kerrod Smyth with a good book of six ...

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Rockhampton Cup winning jockey Raul Silvera Olivera has won his second Northern Racing Carnival major in less than a week, taking out Friday’s ...

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Nash Rawiller traded his jockey whip for a fishing rod and made up for a relatively quiet TAB Rockhampton Cup Day at Callaghan Park, landing some ...

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Less than two years ago Raul Silvera Olivera couldn’t speak a word of English, had never ridden in Australia and was quite unaware of the ...

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NSW bushy drives 18 hours to watch his horse win the Newmarket Part-owner Glen Ayre drove 18 hours to see Sha Of Gomer record a stunning victory ...

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Grandad Bell says apprentice jockey Tom won’t be stressed in his debut Rockhampton Cup Former Brisbane Racing Club chairman, Neville Bell and his ...

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There’s nothing like a good racing mystery – this one dates back a century and it could be straight out of a Dick Francis novel. The true ...

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Hansen zeros in on sixth Newmarket victory Sunshine Coast-based trainer Darryl Hansen will chase a record sixth Newmarket Handicap win at ...

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Champion jockey Nash Rawiller, the ambassador for the 2025 TAB Rockhampton Carnival, has locked in his rides for this week’s feature races at ...

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Names in the National Rugby League don’t come much bigger than Immortal Mal Meninga, one of the most influential figures in the game and ...

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The old timers say that many horses find their best form at the same time each year. Remember Think Big, he probably would not have won at ...

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One Syndications manager, RJC deputy chairman Brandon Diplock has reported that Hell will not take its place in its 2025 target race, the ...

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Champion jockey Nash Rawiller will ride at Callaghan Park during both days of the 2025 Rockhampton Cup Carnival. Rawiller has won many ...

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Jennifer Acton, Tom Acton and Larry Acton spoke eloquently, and with great passion for local racing, at the official naming ceremony of The Acton ...

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SOUTHERNERS BUOYED FOR CARNIVAL SUCCESS AFTER WINNING TATT’S DOUBLE A sixth Rockhampton Newmarket Handicap awaits Sunshine Coast trainer Darryl ...

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Gilbert can be Golden again on Tatts Cup Day It’s been a year since six-year-old Gilbert’s Gold won his last race, but his trainer Pat Dillion is ...

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ROOKIE JOHNSTON TRAINS WINNING DOUBLE THE ONLY TIME HE HAS TWO RACE STARTERS Rookie trainer Will Johnston celebrated his first year as a trainer ...

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Callaghan Park racecourse has been decorated with new signage provided by the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s principal sponsor TAB in readiness for ...

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Berserker trainer Clinton Taylor will be hoping he can kick off Brisbane’s exciting Group 1 triple header Saturday at Eagle Farm with a ...

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Toowoomba trainer Mark Currie will arrive in Rockhampton later this month with a team of gallopers including his top hopes for the TAB ...

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TINKERBELLA WAS A STAR AT CALLAGHAN PARK’S BIRTHDAY PARTY Tinkerbella upheld a family tradition, becoming the fourth progeny of broodmare Miss ...

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A colossal 1000km sortie to Cannon Park racecourse in Cairns paid off handsomely for Rockhampton trainer Nick Walsh today. Walsh set newcomer ...

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The Queensland racing industry’s impact on the state’s economy continues to rise, now bordering on $2.5 billion per annum. Latest independent ...

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RAINMAKING FILLY COULD POST HER FIRST WIN AT CALLAGHAN PARK’S BIRTHDAY RACES She’s nicknamed the rainmaker and with rainfall in the forecast for ...

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Cut from scrub at the end of the 19th century, the historic Callaghan Park Racecourse will be celebrated next week by the Rockhampton Jockey ...

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PARADE GROUND MAY BE ON A MARCH TO CUPS Ricky Vale could aim Parade Ground at bigger targets during the winter after last year’s Guineas winner ...

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Young Ballina horseman Jordan Lee, the son of Group-race winning trainer Stephen Lee, is hoping to celebrate his first week in Rockhampton by ...

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Rockhampton-based, South American jockey Raul Silvera Olivera celebrated his first Central Queensland treble of winners and his most important ...

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Rockhampton trainer Kris Hansen celebrated the biggest win of his brief career when Astra Star’s strode away with the $105,000 Great Northern ...

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Ballina trainer Stephen Lee is set to locate a barn full of horses in Rockhampton from next week until the end of the TAB Rockhampton Cup ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club has named the celebrated jockey Nash Rawiller as the Ambassador for the 2025 TAB Rockhampton Cup Carnival at ...

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TOOWOOMBA TRAINER AND STALLION DUNDEEL SCORE WINNING DOUBLES AT CALLAGHAN PARK Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Dundeel sired the winners of ...

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CUP-WINNING COAST TRAINER RETURNS TO ROCKHAMPTON ON TUESDAY Country Cup-winning trainer Krystle Johnston will return to Callaghan Park on Tuesday ...

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One of Australia’s most respected and longest serving track managers, former Victorian Marty Synan, who relocated to Queensland earlier this ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club has renamed the Club’s public grandstand, “The Acton Stand” in recognition of the family’s long association with ...

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Tasmanian galloper Hype, the winner of last year’s Rockhampton Cup, will be back at Callaghan Park to defend his title, if all goes to plan, says ...

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Apprentice jockey McKenzie Apel has been the big mover in the 2024/25 Rockhampton Jockey Premiership and now sits in second place behind reigning ...

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Chautauqua’s Half-Brother Scores Emotional Win At Bolter Odds It was an emotional victory for the apprentice jockey Nikki Olzard. Five-year-old ...

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CALLAGHAN PARK MILE WILL SUIT TOOWOOMBA-TRAINED FIVE-YEAR-OLD Former Rockhampton-trained gelding Whatjeudoin’, now with Toowoomba’s Matt Kropp, ...

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Warren McLaughlin has been breeding racehorses for four decades and last Saturday he finally got the result he was looking for, when rank ...

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Racing Queensland confirms that an additional race has been added to the program for the Rockhampton Jockey Club race meeting on Tuesday, April ...

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A striking bay colt with impeccable bloodlines caught the attention of world-renowned bloodstock agent John Foote at Sunday’s Capricornia ...

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An ambitious plan hatched more than twelve months ago by Victorian race caller Ric McIntosh came to fruition on Saturday when Kerzner stunned a ...

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Homebred Grey Wins Magic Millions Country Cup A homebred grey mare provided Sunshine Coast trainer Krystle Johnston with her first trophy winner ...

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FANCIED 2YOs DRAW WIDE FOR RICH CAPRICORNIA YEARLING SALE CLASSIC Two of the leading contenders for the $168,000 Capricornia 2YO Classic (1200m), ...

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EX-HAYES 4YO READY TO MAKE A POSITIVE ROCKY DEBUT Universal Harmony looked impressive winning a recent jump-out at Callaghan Park and all going ...

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One of Australia’s leading bloodstock experts John Foote will be in Rockhampton for the RJCs Classic Race and Capricornia Yearling Sale weekend. ...

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News of just how good the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s Classic races, yearling sale, and social events are, has spread far and wide, with Kembla ...

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Spare a thought for the Rockhampton Jockey Club track maintenance team. Track manager Trent Williams and his team are busy getting the Callaghan ...

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BIG PRIZEMONEY ON OFFER AT CALLAGHAN PARK NEXT WEEKEND Local stables will compete with the regions best for $640,000 in prize money at the ...

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SARAQAEL REMAINS UNBEATEN AS HE ADVANCES TO CAPRICORNIA 2YO CLASSIC Unbeaten two-year-old Saraqael did enough to hold on to his spot as favourite ...

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Barcaldine’s Toni Schofield has had over 500 starters with her horses racing on plenty of different tracks in Queensland in recent years, but ...

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She’s Rockhampton racing’s Queen but Chinny Boom just may be crowned the King Of The Mountain next week after being named as a runner in the ...

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HELL OF A ST PATRICK’S DAY FOR WALSH AND O’DONNELL AT CALLAGHAN PARK St Patrick’s own story is one of faith, resilience, and cultural pride, so I ...

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Some of Rocky’s best and most promising gallopers will tackle Saturday’s Masot ‘St Patrick’s Day’ Open Handicap (1050m) at Callaghan Park ...

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STENHOUSE TRAINS HIS FIRST CALLAGHAN PARK WINNER The victory of the Rob Stenhouse-trained longshot D’esprit at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park on ...

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“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks,” is one of the great quotes by Sir Winston ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club is now offering a money-saving incentive for trainers to race locally at Callaghan Park. With TAB calendar congested ...

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CAULFIELD GROUP FORM POINTS TO ROCKHAMPTON WINNER A month ago, Cultural Spirit finished just four lengths astern of Jenni The Fox in a Maiden at ...

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Liv O’Donnell has finished in the money on just about every ride she has had for Rockhampton trainer Kerrod Smyth, who believes the tall ...

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Trainers and jockeys please note: BARRIER TRIAL & JUMPOUT DISTANCES Due to the closure of the 970m chute, from WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26TH 2025. ...

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TAYLOR KEEN TO TEST CHINNY BOOM’S LITTLE SIS IN BRISBANE Berserker trainer Clinton Taylor will adopt a sink or swim strategy with Chinny Boom’s ...

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With Brisbane’s number one jockey James Orman currently in Hong Kong for a six-week riding stint, Rockhampton-raised Emily Lang is emerging as a ...

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PLENTY OF LOVE FOR BIRTHDAY BOY TOM SMITH AT CALLAGHAN PARK A huge cheer rung through the member’s stand at Callaghan Park when Scrub Chain ...

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With a perfect picket fence of Rockhampton victories beside her name, four-year-old mare Alloutatime has earned a crack at the big time. Trained ...

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OLD GOLD COULD BE WORTH SAVOURING AT RACE DEBUT Anyone in racing will tell you that the excitement of presenting an untapped two-year-old to race ...

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RACING QUEENSLAND PROGRAMS ADDITIONAL RACE FOR FRIDAY 14TH Racing Queensland has added an additional QTIS bonus race plus or the RJC’s race ...

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Robbie Dolan’s Rockhampton trip to Callaghan Park on Valentine’s Day was dashed by stewards on Sunday at the Sunshine Coast, when the jockey was ...

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Melbourne Cup winning jockey Robbie Dolan will win plenty of hearts on Valentine’s Day in Rockhampton with his decision to ride at Callaghan Park ...

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Rockhampton-owned gelding Rocky Reward lost its Maiden tag last Friday, winning impressively at the Gold Coast Turf Club’s Aquis Park. Aided by a ...

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FILLY SMASHES TRACK RECORD FOR 1100M AT CALLAGHAN PARK Promising filly Better Than Words smashed a track record established nine years ago with a ...

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He has an old head on a young body, according to his trainer/jockey Warwick Satherley, and the unraced Saraqael looks a chance to make a winning ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Cocobrew Participant Award winner Jamie McConachy

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Yearling numbers nominated for this year’s Capricornia Yearling Sale continue to grow with more than 105 yearlings set to be offered at last ...

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January 24, 2025 Racing Queensland has announced its Chief Executive Officer Jason Scott will conclude his term in 2025. Earlier this week, Mr ...

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MOMENT OF TRUTH SCORES HISTORICAL WIN It was a walk in the park for short priced-favourite Moment of Truth, writing its name in the record books, ...

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Winning three times and finishing in the place money on five other occasions from nine race starts in his first year of racing, Astra Star proved ...

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Russell Leonard talks with jockey Ashley Butler about his rides this Thursday

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Saraquel, a graduate of the 2024 Capricornia Yearling Sale looks a likely contender for this year’s $168,000 2YO Sale Classic at Callaghan Park ...

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TRAINERS PLEASE NOTE: Racing Queensland has scheduled an additional race for the Rockhampton Jockey Club race meeting at Callaghan Park on ...

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HONOURBEFORE GLORY MARCHES TO VICTORY AT CALLAGHAN PARK Thangool-owned Honourbefore Glory made an impressive debut on Thursday at Callaghan Park ...

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Russell Leonard talks with trainer Sileas Green about her chances for Thursday

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Honourbefore Glory, will start a popular elect in Thursday’s QTIS 2YO Handicap (1050m) at Callaghan Park purely on the strength of his recent ...

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Rockhampton horse trainer Clinton Taylor told a local journalist that it was a crazy day leading into last Saturday’s transferred Gold Coast ...

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  Following a recent programming review byRacing Queensland (RQ), the following changes will be introduced to QTIS Scheme programmes ...

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LAST MONTH WAS THE WETTEST OF THE YEAR FOR CALLAGHAN PARK December 2024 was Callaghan Park’s wettest month of last year with 170.5mm filling the ...

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STEPHEN’S CELEBRATES A WINNING DOUBLE ON NEW YEAR’S EVE Peter and Madonna Boodle celebrated a winning double at Callaghan Park with their trainer ...

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Russell Leonard talks with trainer Clint Taylor about his prospects for Tuesday

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RAUL’S UNIQUE TALENT WILL BE ON SHOW AT EAGLE FARM If 2007 Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michael Rodd is right, Rockhampton-based Uruguayan jockey ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Cocobrew Participant Award winner Kylie Welburn

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Buoyed from riding a perfect quartet of winners in Mackay last Saturday, jockey Ash Butler will be hoping to continue the success at ...

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Saturday’s $200,000 Listed Ascot Green Lough Neagh Stakes (1300m) at Eagle Farm has attracted lots of interest for varying reasons, and from a ...

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MCCONACHY AND SILVERA OLIVERA TEAM IN MACKAY Winning trainer jockey combination Jamie McConachy and Raul Silvera Olivera are out to capitalize on ...

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CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY FOR TOM BOURKE “All he needed was a good barrier,” Rockhampton trainer Tom Bourke said when Rubunkar, who is currently ...

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Callaghan Park Racetrack will be buzzing with excitement as Christmas approaches with many businesses, families and friends celebrating the start ...

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Russell Leonard and David Aldred recap on the memorable events in 2024

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Dick Sullivan had four passions: his lovely wife, his work, horse racing and his taste for the best red wines of which he had a large ...

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Melbourne Cup winning jockey Robbie Dolan will join forces with Rockhampton trainer Tom Smith in a bid to win Saturday’s Country Cup Challenge at ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Bill Reid – Rocky Amateurs Chairman and Brandon Diplock – RJC Deputy Chairman about the revised concept ...

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Rockhampton young gun Will Johnston has a chance to grow his winning record and get his first Callaghan Park winner on Friday. Johnston trains ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Cocobrew Participant Award winner Clinton Taylor

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Hell is Rockhampton’s hottest racehorse with four straight wins at his last four starts, including another commanding victory in Brisbane last ...

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It would come as no surprise to local racing fan that jockey Justin Stanley and trainer Clinton Taylor have all the running in the local ...

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For over half a century, Graeme Green has been an important figure in regional racing. At the end of November, the celebrated Rockhampton ...

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LOTS OF LOVE FOR THE LADY IN THE BREEDERS PLATE “The pressure’s off now”, they were the first words from premier trainer Clinton Taylor as he ...

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Lock in the dates for the 2025 Capricornia Yearling Sales weekend. The $600,000 Racing and Sales event has been scheduled for Friday 11th, ...

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With three of his Rockhampton team in Brisbane, John Wigginton, leads a local charge for the big dollars on offer at Doomben today. Callaghan ...

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Russell Leonard talks with trainer Kris Hansen about his entrant Run Freda Run

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It could be a feeling of déjà vu for Rockhampton’s top trainer and jockey duo Clinton Taylor and Justin Stanley, as well as the army of punters ...

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The Rocky Amateurs and the Rockhampton Jockey Club are delighted to announce an ongoing tenancy agreement for the running of the CQ Amateur Race ...

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Rockhampton is getting ready for a big race day on Friday with the annual running of the $35,000 Breeders Plate at Callaghan Park. With big ...

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Mocambo will line up to try to win its fifth race in a row in Saturday’s Yeppoon Cup after scoring an emphatic win at Gladstone last week. ...

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STANLEY RIDES A ROCKY QUARTET Justin Stanley started the Tony McMahon Recognition Race Day where he left off on Caulfield Cup Day at Callaghan ...

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The RJC will recognise long-standing racing all-rounder Tony Mc Mahon’s contribution to Rockhampton racing at the club’s TAB seven race meeting ...

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Trainers Jared Wehlow and Ricky Vale have top chances to snare a double victory for Rockhampton gallopers at Doomben on Saturday. Wehlow has ...

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Premier combination Justin Stanley and Clinton Taylor celebrated a day to remember at Callaghan Park’s Caulfield Cup Race Day. Stanley rode five ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Clint Taylor about his prospects this Saturday

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Jockey Raul Silvera Olivera returns to the races in Mackay on Thursday. When acceptances came out today Silvera Olivera was listed for one ride ...

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A solitary bunch of flowers was left at the mounting yard gate at Callaghan Park today, marking the 10th anniversary of the tragic loss of ...

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HELL IS A LIVE CHANCE IN BRISBANE One Syndications-owned racehorse Hell is back in Brisbane tomorrow chasing its second metropolitan victory in ...

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APPRENTICE JOHNSON RETURNS TO RACING A WINNER Apprentice jockey Brooke Johnson returned to the winner’s circle on her first day back at the ...

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Four-year-old Doubting Eye has an admirable Callaghan Park record and the talented galloper, last year’s Horse of the Year runner-up, looks ready ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Trent Williams about the recent track Refurbishment

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Talented apprentice Brooke Johnson hopes to be riding in races again as early as next week. Johnson who has been out of action with a broken arm ...

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They’re talented horse people who with their equine companions keep our racing competitors safe at their workplace, the racetrack. Like a ...

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Bill Trimble knows better than anyone that owning a thoroughbred with a regal pedigree doesn’t necessarily mean it will be running at Royal ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Ashley Butler about his rides for Tuesday

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Raul Silvera Olivera is in transit from South America to Australia. The Uruguayan jockey who had to leave Rockhampton earlier this year when his ...

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Three last-start winners Lonhy’s Fabre, The Home Team, and Better Than Words could be in for a head-to-head clash in the program opener for the ...

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There’s a touch of Black Caviar about Chinny Boom’s return at Caulfield on Saturday. The Rockhampton rocket steps out for the first time for the ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club races at Yeppoon’s Keppel Park on Tuesday. It will be a great family day out a Keppel Park and if you’re ...

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Uruguayan jockey Raul Silvera Olivera is set to return to Rockhampton to ride in the coming weeks. Silvera Olivera left Rockhampton earlier this ...

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Clinton Taylor and Ricky Vale will saddle up runners in today’s Restricted Fillies and Mares Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm. Divine Purpose is ...

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The Callaghan Park turf track renovations were completed by Twin View Turf late last week. After dethatching, aerating, coring, and ...

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Rockhampton’s 2023-24 Horse of the Year, Dragon’s Snip will shoot for his sixth straight victory in tomorrow’s Thangool Newmarket Handicap ...

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A year ago, he was matching strides with Stakes horses and finished fourth to Golden Gift winner Shangri La Express in the Kirkham Plate at ...

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With a 50 percent winning strike at Yeppoon’s Keppel Park, seven-year-old Letmeletgo is certain to have plenty of admirers on Tuesday. The ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club’s most outstanding performers of 2023-24 was celebrated on Saturday night at the Gala Awards evening at Callaghan ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Kerrod Smyth about his runners Murrajong Road and Lamentum

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Rockhampton Newmarket Handicap winner Honkytonk Diva has retired from racing. The Under the Louvre mare raced 18 times for eight wins and five ...

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Early start at Callaghan Park races for Thursday’s eight race program, with the first of the day set to jump at 11.07am. Justin Stanley takes ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Cocobrew Participant Award winner Kevin Hansen

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The backbone of the racing industry throughout Australia since its crude formation in the 1790’s has been the little player. It has been no ...

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Thank you to everyone who took the time to read our Racing Year in Review series. We are sure you will agree it has certainly been a massive year ...

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The Variety Bash arrived in Rockhampton at Callaghan Park racecourse this evening, and its participants will celebrate their visit with a night ...

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Take your minds back to the early part of last week when Rockhampton was “water bombed” with deluges of rain. In fact the official BOM readings ...

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We’re getting close to the end the RJC’s Year in Review, this instalment summarises three very busy months at Callaghan Park, from ...

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By Tony McMahon. So much news to report- so where do I start? That’s simple with premier Rockhampton apprentice jockey, the now Brisbane based ...

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We hope you enjoyed the first edition of the ‘RJC’s Racing Year in Review’ and now present Part Two: A snapshot of November 2023, through to ...

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Racing in Central Queensland has almost doubled in size and worth over a decade, according to Racing Queensland’s latest survey data. A study of ...

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As I pen this column Wednesday afternoon it was a case of “racing going ahead as scheduled” in relation to the seven event TAB card at Callaghan ...

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Russell Leonard presents his selections for Thursday, 15th August

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Tasmanian Aiden Nunn’s training performance was only matched by the ride of South Australian-based jockey Teagan Voorham and the brilliant ...

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Seriously, I’ll wager at first glance you did not recognise the two Rockhampton racing toffs in the attached photograph taken by Kylie Welburn in ...

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The RJC sincerely thank all racing stakeholders, members and guests for what has been a sensational year of racing  in Rocky. We hope you enjoy ...

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Premier Rockhampton trainer Clinton Taylor, well known for being in for the “long haul “with his horses will be clocking up the kilometres in the ...

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Rockhampton Cup winner Hype will strive to win a Northern Winter Carnival Cups double on Saturday in Mackay, and South Aussie jockey Teagan ...

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Fabulous meeting at Keppel Park, Yeppoon last Saturday with an official crowd of 1200 spectators which did not include stakeholders and workers. ...

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It’s become a regular phenomenon, so much so it is taken for granted. What would that be, I envisage you thinking?   ANSWER: Callaghan Park, ...

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He is a giant racehorse and at his best commands the turf. This year’s Rockhampton The Archer winner Namazu is back at Townsville’s Cluden Park ...

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On the surface it may just seem generic that Clinton Taylor will win his second Rockhampton Jockey Club trainer’s premiership at the conclusion ...

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Russell Leonard talks to Clint Taylor following his Trainers’ Premiership Award win

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You may recall I said in an earlier article, “24 hours in racing is a long time” or to be precise, words to that effect. So true. On Thursday ...

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Apprentice jockey Tahlia Fenlon “miraculously “escaped serious injury when a mount she was riding stumbled and dislodged her at Ipswich races ...

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Rockhampton racing’s latest rising star, last Saturday’s stunning Eagle Farm winner, the Clinton Taylor trained Astapor is headed south to Sydney ...

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The Clinton Taylor and Justin Stanley juggernaut looks set to blaze away again at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park races tomorrow (Tuesday). At Eagle ...

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Young lightweight Deagon-based apprentice jockey Shania Willis will experience Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park for the first time on Tuesday and ...

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Highlights abounded at Callaghan Park racecourse last Friday and Saturday for the Rockhampton Newmarket and Cup race meetings. It’s just a matter ...

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Rocky trainer Clinton Taylor staved off the might of the Tony Gollan stable to win the 2024 TAB Rockhampton Cup Carnival Trainers Award. Taylor ...

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The TAB representatives and the RJC guest speaker at the Rockhampton Cup proved to be canny form analysts, winning the 2024 Cup Calcutta. The ...

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Radio 9904RO listeners Peter and Leandra took their seats on Saturday as winners of the Rocky Cup Best Seats in the House competition held on ...

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Assuredly it was a classic case of “my Cup runneth over” with records which the result of last Saturday’s $150K TAB Rockhampton Cup (1600m) ...

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The 2024 Phil Peel Jeweller Rockhampton Cup Fashions on the Field was almost as hotly contested as the action on the track, with entrants dressed ...

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While local Cups king Master Jamie was denied a record third Rockhampton Cup, two Tasmanians, and an imported Irish gelding stepped into the ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Ashley Butler about his rides in the Rocky Cup Day races

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Friday’s One Syndications Rockhampton Newmarket race meeting has mushroomed to a record nine race TAB card with no fewer than 123 horses ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Cocobrew Participant Award winner Clinton Taylor about his runners for Newmarket Day

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Callaghan Park is the hub of racing north of the south east Queensland corner, and boasts a rich and proud history. Here’s just a snippet ...

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 The stage is set for multiple records to be achieved when both locally trained gallopers Namazu and Master Jamie contest this Saturday’s ...

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New distance marker poles have been put into place at Callaghan Park this week, making a bold statement on the racetrack. The red and white ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club is buoyed by the entry of 280 horses for the two feature days on its annual racing calendar which gallop into reality ...

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Tasmanian horseman Aiden Nunn loves nothing better than following the sun to Queensland each winter. This week the thoroughbred trainer is ...

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Well just a few more sleeps before the RJC Winter Carnival of Racing is upon us. All the social activities which are associated with it are well ...

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Robbie Dolan will be a headline act when he takes to Callaghan Park’s  turf “stage” during the Rockhampton Cup Carnival 12-13 July. The dual ...

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There were 11 race winners to celebrate at the expanded TAB Tattersalls Cup race meeting on Sunday at Callaghan Park but in my mind the biggest ...

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Capricornia Yearling Sale Graduate Under The Cap, Sunshine Coast trainer Stuart Kendrick, and apprentice jockey Cody “Chip” Collis posted their ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Cocobrew Participant Award winner John O’Sing

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Sunday’s 11 race megacard will commence at 10.55am with the last just over six hours later at 4.58pm. Sunday’s meeting will be the second ...

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Callaghan Park will be Australia’s busiest racetrack Sunday with 11 races to be run, featuring the $35,000 TAB Tattersall’s Gold Cup and the ...

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Russell Leonard talks with David Aldred about the up coming 2024 Winter Carnival at Callaghan Park

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Weather and not weight will play a deciding factor as to whether giantkiller Namazu takes his place in Sunday’s $35,000 Tattersall’s Gold Cup ...

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The prospects of another Rockhampton Cup staying local has been enhanced by today’s (Monday) confirmation that Cocobrew Express has been set for ...

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Callaghan Park racecourse’s busy sand training track underwent a renovation grading on Thursday in preparation for the high traffic expected to ...

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If you read the stewards report in relation to dual Rockhampton Cup winner Master Jamie regarding his out of character 7.56 lengths second last ...

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By David Aldred – RJC CEO Two of Rocky’s young racing participants landed a Rockhampton Regional Show double last week, 24 hours before ...

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Russell Leonard talks with John Wigginton about his runners More Stylish and Rivelly

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The Pink Ribbon Stradbroke Charity Race Day at Callaghan Park on Saturday will feature a star studded lineup of jockeys. These include SEQ ...

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For sheer guts and determination in not allowing a most dire form of adversity prevent him forging a “new life” career in horse racing, you just ...

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First and foremost, the Pink Ribbon Stradbroke Charity Race Day this Saturday June 15 to benefit Breast Screen Rockhampton, is shaping as highly ...

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Rockhampton’s newest horse trainer Will Johnston, 20, who was only granted his trainer’s brief on Wednesday, may well be currently the city’s ...

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Busy times ahead for the RJC out at Callaghan Park with the Winter Carnival race meetings fast approaching. It commences iwith the time-honoured ...

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Spare a thought for the would-be buyer who made a final bid of $48K for a Spirit Of Boom-Imanoremiss filly on Monday, March 15, 2021, at the ...

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Four Rockhampton Capras footy players, including three from the current Hostplus first-grade squad, have proven valuable assets to the track ...

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Best of luck at Callaghan Park TAB races tomorrow (FRIDAY) to former jockey turned trainer Michael John Stephens and his stable representative ...

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Callaghan Park has another new trainer now calling Rocky home. Raymond Chan arrived from Brisbane this week to set up stables at the Rocky ...

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Connections of Namazu, the recent winner of the $775K Rocky Amateurs The Archer (1300m) certainly acted in the best interests of their horse when ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club will proudly support BreastScreen Queensland on Saturday, 15 June at Callaghan Park to raise funds for much-needed ...

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Cherry Rose completed its picket fence of wins at Callaghan Park yesterday and now her trainer Jamie McConachy is focused on winning next week’s ...

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First and foremost, congratulations to Callaghan Park trainer Darryl Johnston and retired mentor Jack Garland. Darryl or “Dags” as he is known ...

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Russell Leonard talks with Cocobrew Participant Award winner Kerrod Smyth

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Trainer Clinton Taylor believes the usual coveted rails barrier worked adversely against star mare Chinny Boom when she failed in last Saturday’s ...

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The luck of the draw, one of the factors which plays a crucial role in the outcome of a race, seems to have worked in favour of Rockhampton’s ...

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Three girls, three doubles, and a historic day for the Rockhampton Jockey Club summarises Tuesday’s race meeting where Brooke Johnson, Georgina ...

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The successful Rockhampton trainer, jockey and owner combination of Kerrod Smyth, Warwick Satherley and Glenda Smyth will be out to extend their ...

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Russell Leonard presents his selections for Tuesday’s meeting

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Given the spate of race meetings scheduled throughout Queensland currently, the RJC has done really well in receiving 95 entries for next Tuesday ...

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The exodus of Callaghan Park trained horses to contest races at the Mackay Turf Club TAB meeting next Saturday is likely to set a new record. No ...

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Rising star, the Clinton Taylor trained juvenile colt Astapor looked simply awesome in winning his 900 metres trial at Callaghan Park this ...

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A great  round up of local racing thanks to RJC CEO David Aldred: The big prize on offer at last Sunday’s Rocky Amateurs stayed local with ...

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What a sensational month April has been for the Rockhampton racing industry. It commenced “on cue” with the first day of the RJC’s Festival of ...

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It’s an old chestnut but why not use it? “All roads will lead to Callaghan Park racecourse on Sunday!  The Rocky Amateurs The Archer Race Day is ...

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Russell talks with Matt Jones about his Archer entrant, Super Helpful

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The final cards have been dealt for Sunday’s $775K Bentley’s The Archer (1300m) at Callaghan Park after a novel barrier draw at Ian Weighs Lexus ...

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Naturally, all the racing hype in and around Rockhampton as well as elsewhere for that matter, focuses on the Rocky Amateurs Race Day at ...

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Thursday’s historic 12 race Rockhampton Jockey Club TAB card at Callaghan Park racecourse was deemed an outstanding success, however, on a sad ...

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Bowen trainer Tom Button won his third Capricornia Yearling Sale 2YO Classic on Thursday with his filly Silver Glitter coming with a big finish ...

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2024-04-18RACAROUNDRECORD By Tony McMahon. Seems unbelievable really to be writing about the Rockhampton Jockey Club staging a 12 race TAB card ...

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With the consensus of opinion of forecasters of “little to any rain and the possibility of a late shower tomorrow (Thursday),” it seems that the ...

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Russell talks with Centelle Winstanley about the upcoming Rocky Amateur’s Home of the Archer

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In what well may be unprecedented in Australian racing, the Rockhampton Jockey Club on Thursday will stage a mammoth 12 race TAB card at ...

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NOMINATIONS for the $75,000 FITZROY Open Handicap (1300m) on Archer Day CLOSE through Racing Australia on Wednesday 17 April 2024 at 1.00 pm. The ...

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More than likely next Thursday’s Rockhampton Jockey Club race meeting will break records for the club. As you are aware 12 races are programmed, ...

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Next Thursday (April 18) could well be the biggest race meeting – numerically speaking on the criteria of race numbers, ever staged in the ...

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Sales receipts from Sunday’s (April 7) Capricornia Yearling Sale topped the million dollars mark when 87 yearlings sold grossing $1.080.500 ...

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Racing Queensland (RQ) confirms that following a further track inspection this afternoon the Rockhampton Jockey Club (Capricornia Sales) Race ...

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Rockhampton Jockey Club has scheduled the richest race run in Queensland on Saturday with the running of the $168K QTIS Capricornia Yearling Sale ...

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Russell talks with David Aldred about the 2024 CAPRICORNIA YEARLING SALE Carnival

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Russell talks with Warwick Satherley, Cocobrew’s Participant Award winner for March

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Wow it’s all about to happen – the RJC Festival of Racing and Sales – Where do I start? Friday’s racing fields are out and about for Callaghan ...

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In excess of  $1.5 million is likely to change hands over three spectacular days this “long weekend” from prizemoney distribution and sales ...

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Lot to like about the win of the John Wigginton trained Bencoolen at Callaghan Park on Tuesday when barely hitting overdrive to record a soft win ...

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You don’t need me to tell you, but “doesn’t time fly?” Sure, it is “an old chestnut” but it is ever so true. This came to mind as I started to do ...

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Flushed with success after a 474km return road trip from Rockhampton to Monto races last Saturday, talented jockey Ashley (Ash) Butler will be ...

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A Raheen Stud yearling wearing hip number 29 at the Capricornia Yearling Sale is expected to be popular at the auction on Sunday week after the ...

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First things first. Racing Queensland has advised that a $23K Maiden Plate (1200m) has been hastily added to the RJC’s TAB program scheduled for ...

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The $168K Capricornia Yearling Sales 2YO Classic (1200m), the top act on the RJC’s three days Festival of Racing and Sales is fast approaching on ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club’s St Patrick’s Day races will be conducted at Callaghan Park racecourse on Saturday setting the stage for a colossal ...

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Russell talks with David Aldred about the upcoming Capricornia Yearling Sale Race Carnival

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Rockhampton trainer Clinton Taylor went to $230,000 to acquire a full sister to his outstanding mare Chinny Boom at the Gold Coast March Magic ...

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Two Rockhampton apprentice jockeys have been chosen among a team of eleven to represent Queensland in the upcoming National Apprentice Race ...

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Russell talks with Mark Unwin, Cocobrew’s Participant Award winner for February

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club have put back trials and jump outs originally scheduled for Callaghan Park next Tuesday to the following Monday ...

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It was just fantastic to see popular horse trainer John Poots, who sustained serious brain injuries from a horse related incident at his ...

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The Rocky Amateurs Race Club has announced that recently retired Australian record Group 1 race winning jockey Damien Oliver will be the official ...

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Young Rockhampton couple Mitchell and Anna Power are in the enviable position of having the first two horses they have raced together qualify for ...

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Russell talks with trainer Graeme Green about Blue Kentucky Moon and Aleaco as well as an update on Master Jamie’s preparations for his ...

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You have to give it to Oscar Wilde; he was “spot on” if you will excuse the modern vernacular. Wilde (1854-1900) a famed Irish playwright and ...

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It’s a well- worn quote, phrase, term or however you wish to refer to it, “the harder I work, the luckier I get.” Of course, “hard work and luck” ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club’s oldest member Bruce McKenzie is its newest Life Member after being awarded the honour by Club Chairman Rob Carr ...

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Figuratively speaking, Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse won’t know what hit it tomorrow (Friday) with a mammoth 10 race TAB card featuring ...

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Russell talks with trainer, Jamie McConachy, about his four runners on Friday

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club this Friday, through a set of mitigating circumstances, may stage its busiest race meeting in 155 years of operation. ...

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There has been a run of jockeys who service Capricornia racing being “in the wars” through in the main – injuries. The latest is Callaghan ...

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Russell talks with Jared Wehlow, Cocobrew’s Participant Award winner for January

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As I have said before and allow me to say it again, as long as I can remember a poster horse arrives around this time of year – year in and year ...

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Nominations for the forthcoming Capricornia Yearling Sales to be held at the Robert Schwarten Pavilion in Rockhampton on Sunday, April 7 were to ...

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It was an Australia Day long weekend to forget for Callaghan Park trainer Graeme Green and his stable stars Master Jamie and Top Spy last week. ...

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Graeme Green, the Callaghan Park trainer and part-owner of Rockhampton racing’s millionaire equine Master Jamie, shrugged off the horse’s outside ...

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Russell talks with Brandon Diplock about the new startup venture, One Syndications and its two racers Awol and Shadowen

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club will host its biggest meeting for the new calendar year to date  with a bumper nine race TAB program this Thursday, ...

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In horse racing it is a given that you have to experience losing to really appreciate the value of winning a race. That applies to jockeys, ...

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The thrill of winning a horse race, be it as a jockey, trainer or owner is hard “to beat” if you will excuse the pun. While I will not disclose ...

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Even at this early stage with slightly less that half of the current racing season competed, it seems the stage is set for an enthralling battle ...

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Callaghan Park trainer Kerrod Smyth is certainly the in-form mentor among the racing ranks presently having prepared six winners between December ...

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Russell talks with Graeme Green, Cocobrew’s Participant Award winner for December

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As I keep on saying, year-in and year-out around this time graduates from Rockhampton’s Capricornia Yearling Sales really fire. For instance, ...

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With so many news items around local racing this week, I’ll submit the Racing Around Rockhampton Column in two issues – Thursday and Friday.  ...

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… Granted it is the name of the popular television program but Rockhampton’s star racehorse Master Jamie has become just that – a ...

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Russell presents his selections for Tuesday’s meeting

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In a plan designed for “strategic placement,” Sunnycoast, the winner of this year’s $150,000 Capricornia Yearling Sales 2YO Classic (1200m) at ...

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I am a great believer in fate. Some things are just destined and meant to happen.  Such was the case today when I noticed on Facebook it was ...

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Dual Rockhampton Cup winner Master Jamie has gained a slot in the $750,000 Mort and Co sponsored King Of The Mountain (1200m) at Toowoomba’s ...

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A mix of trainers, owners, and jockeys got some extra cash for Christmas with some long-priced winners and some well-supported favourites sharing ...

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Good to see some former familiar older faces on the listings of the jockeys ranks riding at the Callaghan Park, Rockhampton meeting tomorrow ...

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Russell talks to David Aldred about some highlights coming for 2024

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Gun Rockhampton colt Astapor will be in the hot seat at Eagle Farm on Saturday when he attempts to cement his position as “the real thing” for ...

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Mercurial Rockhampton warhorse Master Jamie has come through last Monday’s win in a Callaghan Park barrier trial with flying colours as he ...

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It’s well known that “positivity breeds positivity” and there is an abundance of that quality emanating from Callaghan Park racecourse after last ...

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The topical theme “it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” appropriately sums up what will be taking place at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park ...

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Russell talks with Ashley Butler, Cocobrew’s Participant Award winner for November

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A sizzling summer awaits the Rockhampton stable of Clinton Taylor after he gave glowing reports today (Tuesday) on the progression of his star ...

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Rockhampton racing’s complete domination of Mackay Turf Club TAB race meetings reached its zenith on Thursday when it provided six of the seven ...

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Busy lead-up to Christmas with race meetings throughout Capricornia. Commences in earnest tomorrow (Friday) with an excellent eight race TAB card ...

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Clint Taylor discusses his hopes for Donmore Girl, Chinny Boom and Valorous Performer

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The reappearance of that special talent, the Clinton Taylor trained Chinny Boom will highlight the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s attractive eight ...

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2023-111-28ASTAPOR The phones have not stopped ringing with offers of as much as $1,000,000 being made (to buy) after Rockhampton racing’s latest ...

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Boom Rockhampton juvenile Astapor gets his chance to display his skills in Brisbane on Saturday when he contests a $130K QTIS 2YO Plate (1100m) ...

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Russell’s selections for Tuesday, 21st November

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Two great advertisements for the forthcoming 2024 Capricornia Yearling Sales in Rockhampton on April 7 next year focusing attention on that venue ...

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When Rockhampton horse trainer Jared Wehlow purchased a seven-year-old nondescript sight unseen gelding from an online auction in April for a ...

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Emerald trainer Raymond Williams looks like playing a strong hand in the finals of the $200K Country Cups Challenge (1600m) and $105K Country ...

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Spring, summer, autumn or winter you can bet your life Rockhampton racing stakeholders will be ON THE ROAD AGAIN. Such as this Thursday (16/11) ...

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Rockhampton trainer “Tash” won’t be able to blame the jockey if her horse “Jack” gets beaten at the Sunshine Coast’s metropolitan meeting on ...

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The “Not For Sale” sign has been firmly entrenched around last Friday’s brilliant Clinton Taylor trained Rockhampton debutant colt Astapor after ...

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Rockhampton’s racing’s latest rising star, the apprentice Brooke Johnson, riding on the crest of a winning wave has a new adaptation for the ...

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Rockhampton trainer Nick Walsh leads the way in this week’s column with a two-pronged attack on Saturday’s Doomben card in Brisbane. Walsh 25, ...

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Over to Callaghan Park, Rockhampton tomorrow (Friday) for what traditionally is known as the Breeders 2YO Plate Race Day. Once both heats of the ...

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Russell talks to Cocobrew’s October Participant Award winner Jason Morgan

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Keeping up the namesake of others before him, Gracemere owner Colin Bell has his hopes pinned on Ask Me Mate winning Friday’s $47,000 TAB ...

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Weight, usually in the form of that allocated by the handicapper is often a bone of contention in horse racing. This racing tale is about weight ...

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The most interesting ON THE ROAD AGAIN trip this week is that of Callaghan Park trainer Jared Wehlow. He left Rocky earlier in the week floating ...

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You can’t keep a good man down and John Poots is a good man! Almost four months after suffering serious brain injuries and undergoing multiple ...

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Without question the best field ever to contest a race at Yeppoon’s Keppel Park racecourse will contest Saturday’s thrilling $15K G.J. Gardner ...

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Introducing, “Kobe” as members of his 20 strong fan-base reckon he “rocks”. More so on sand of course which understandably could ponder the ...

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Rockhampton racing stakeholders and indeed all associated with the Rockhampton Jockey Club as well as the people of this city, should be ...

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Horse racing which commenced on the Capricorn Coast under the auspices of the Yeppoon Amateur Racing Club on Wednesday, September 23, 1981, has ...

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The line from the 1969 hit song the Age Of Aquarius “let the sunshine, let the sunshine in” would have set the scene for Rockhampton dual ...

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Rockhampton racing’s longshot king, trainer Stephen Rundle top scored when his rank outsider, the quirky named Whatjeudin’ scored at the odds of ...

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What is it that is said – “practice what you preach” which in a biblical idiom albeit ironic as I lead into this week’s road trips. You see, I ...

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Russell talks to trainer Nick Walsh about Fine Shot and Queen Assassin

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Piggybacking from the unqualified success of last Saturday’s Rockhampton Jockey Club Caulfield Cup Race Day, the club has scheduled a first-class ...

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Busy set of trials and jump outs at Callaghan Park racecourse on Monday morning. Apart from the “babies” (2YO’s) strutting their stuff, there was ...

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Delighted to hear nothing but positive reports about the success of the last Saturday’s Caulfield Cup race day at Callaghan Park. I did the ...

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Russell talks to David Aldred about the new member’s facilities at Callaghan Park

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club’s Caulfield Cup Day races has for over 30 years enjoyed the reputation of being the highlight of Spring racing in the ...

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The hammer has almost come down on the livestock and thoroughbred auctioneering career of well-known Rockhampton racing and cattle identity Ken ...

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The recent increase in numbers of the Rockhampton jockeying ranks, was evident out at Emerald last Saturday where they rode the card of five ...

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2023-10-17ROCKRACLTHYEARS ROCKY RACING THROUGH THE YEARS During her whirlwind jockeying career, racing was always at the forefront for ...

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Rockhampton apprentice jockey Erin Molloy is the undisputed winner of “Taking the Gong” for her ON THE ROAD AGAIN marathons over the last week. ...

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Do you ever answer your own questions? I certainly do. Don’t we have some excellent racing coming up in the weeks ahead in the Capricornia ...

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There was no prouder man on Callaghan Park racecourse on Sunday than Uruguay jockey Raul Silvera Olivera and with understandable justification. ...

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Russell talks to Trent Williams about recent track renovations at Callaghan Park

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In what is being described as a miraculous recovery, Rockhampton horse trainer John Poots who suffered serious brain injuries in a horse related ...

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Another week and more travelling ON THE ROAD AGAIN for our intrepid stakeholders from Rockhampton and the Capricornia region. Passionate Central ...

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Rockhampton comeback jockey Dale Evans experienced the highs and lows of racing in just under an hour at Townsville’s TAB meeting where he was ...

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Sunday’s Rockhampton Jockey Club race meeting is shaping well with 79 entries to date. More are expected to come in with the extension deadline ...

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Comeback Rockhampton jockey Dale Evans hasn’t wasted any time in getting back ON THE ROAD AGAIN. Dale returned from a four-year hiatus at Keppel ...

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Certainly, some great racing coming up around Capricornia and in the surrounding regions in the next couple of weeks. Before progressing there, ...

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Change is one of the inevitable and certain ‘’constants’ of life. What better way than to illustrate it as an adjunct to recording change, than ...

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Racing heads down to Keppel Park, Yeppoon tomorrow (Tuesday) for the final of the RJC race meetings there over the refurbishment period of ...

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Dale Evans, one of Rockhampton’s most naturally talented jockeys will make a low-key comeback to race riding at the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s ...

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This is the first of a weekly pictorial series compiled by Tony McMahon titled ROCKY RACING THROUGH THE YEARS. The idiom “a picture paints 1000 ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club have had a good response from trainers for the meeting to be held at Keppel Park, Yeppoon next Tuesday. Some 72 ...

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In a move that will be beneficial to Rockhampton racing, five times former premier Callaghan Park trainer Tom Buton is to relocate from his ...

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Callaghan Park trainer Dale Whyte will travel his maidener SHOOTINGOFFTHEHAND to Doomben on Wednesday to make his debut in a $62,500 QTIS 3YO ...

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Two Rockhampton horses trainers figured prominently winning awards at the Queensland division of the Australian Trainers Association celebratory ...

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We are ON THE ROAD AGAIN with a group of Rockhampton trainers and jockeys heading to the Bowen Turf Club’s race meeting on Thursday. Bowen’s Ben ...

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I found it hard to believe that former Rockhampton premier trainer Lyle Rowe celebrated in very low-key fashion his 83rd birthday at a ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club will stage a seven race TAB card with a difference tomorrow (Tuesday) as the venue will not be the customary ...

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A new name among the riding ranks emerging at the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s TAB race meeting at Keppel Park, Yeppoon on Tuesday is that of ...

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It has been ages since Rockhampton boasted such a talented array of apprentice jockeys that presently are based in the city. I speak of Brooke ...

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The report cards are excellent as are the barrier draws for a trio of top Rockhampton horses ON THE ROAD AGAIN heading south 634km down the Bruce ...

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Seriously injured Rockhampton horse trainer John Poots has been transferred from the Royal Brisbane’s Women’s Hospital to an adjoining facility ...

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Premier Rockhampton apprentice jockey Tahlia Fenlon will be anxious to make up for lost time when she gets back among the swing of things with a ...

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South American jockey Raul Silvera has been granted a provincial jockey’s licence by QRIC. He will commence riding track work at Callaghan Park ...

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ON THE ROAD AGAIN before we know it will be popular Callaghan Park and former Central Western based trainer Allan Clark, renowned for his ...

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Rockhampton Jockey Club (RJC) Chairman, Rob Carr this week welcomed successful international jockey Raul Silvera to the riding ranks at Callaghan ...

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To ensure that everybody is aware, just a repeat serve here. There will be no racing at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse during September ...

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Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park Racecourse is undergoing its annual turf track spring renovation. RJC Track Manager Trent Williams, the RJC track ...

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Callaghan Park regular, the Gold Coast based FIFO hoop Jason Taylor has been very much in the news this past week after a career best five wins ...

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Jockeys Jason Taylor, Ryan Wiggins and Adam Sewell, who between them rode eight winners on the 10 race Cairns Cup card last Saturday are expected ...

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While in the process of compiling this week’s ON THE ROAD AGAIN COLUMN the song ‘’It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” came to mind. Many of you younger ...

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‘’All good things come to an end” is what Gracemere trainer Jim O’Shea said in the moment of announcing the retirement of his good old mate the ...

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Hi folks, what a sensational weekend for the Rockhampton horses, trainers and owners in Brisbane at Doomben last Saturday. As you would be well ...

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Buckle up everyone as we are ON THE ROAD AGAIN with our intrepid Rockhampton racing stakeholders. Our first port of call will be Brisbane’s ...

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Apprentice jockey Stacey Callow, 21, who is making a name for herself in SEQ will make her first sojourn to ride at Rockhampton’s TAB race ...

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Those of us who work with our beloved thoroughbreds or with any horses for that matter are well aware of the inherent dangers that exist. As is ...

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Russell talks to David Aldred about his new position as CEO of the Rockhampton Jockey Club

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Wow what a weekend for Rockhampton racing stakeholders and their horses. Callaghan Park trainer Jared Wehlow started the ball rolling winning the ...

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Here we go again folks on the highways and byways with our Rockhampton racing stakeholders for another report of ON THE ROAD AGAIN. Didn’t the ...

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As expected, Rockhampton’s St Joseph’s Cathedral was packed on Wednesday morning (9/8) for the celebration of the life of Ray “Feno” Fenlon”. ...

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Rockhampton apprentice jockey Brooke Johnson continued her amazing winning streak at Yeppoon races last Saturday riding her second consecutive ...

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Multiple Rockhampton premiership winning trainer John Wigginton couldn’t recall the last time he prepared a Callaghan Park winning treble after I ...

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Tighten your seatbelts everyone and let’s get back ON THE ROAD AGAIN. Firstly, though, thanks for the positive feedback regarding the ...

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Remember the song “Duncan”? You may know it better as Ï love to have a beer with Duncan” released by Slim Dusty in 1980. Slim in his inimitable ...

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While it is regarded as a truism that “weight stops trains”, it certainly hasn’t stopped Rockhampton heavyweight jockey Ashley Butler, 31, from ...

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Ian Mill, the outgoing Rockhampton Jockey Club CEO had his last day in that capacity at Callaghan Park today, Friday (July 28). Ian commenced his ...

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Introducing the first edition of a new column written by Tony McMahon and titled ON THE ROAD AGAIN designed to keep the Rockhampton racing public ...

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First things first, congratulations are in order to Rockhampton apprentice Tahlia Fenlon on becoming the first female apprentice to win a Mackay ...

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Callaghan Park trainer Ricky Vale, in no uncertain fashion comprehensively won his second Rockhampton Jockey Club trainers’ premiership with a ...

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Rockhampton trainer Clinton Taylor’s confidence in Princess Tenko winning at Doomben on Saturday nosedived before resurfacing somewhat after the ...

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Rockhampton’s trainer’s premiership for the 2022/23 season which concludes on Thursday is shaping up as almost certainly the closest result in ...

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Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse on Thursday will become part of “the battlefield” in deciding the outcome of the current season’s ...

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Another chapter in a book that could be titled “Namazu” was written at Mackay races last Friday when the giant horse provided rookie apprentice ...

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Leading Rockhampton trainer Nick Walsh is hopeful that his charge Bollente, an unlucky fourth in last Friday’s Rockhampton Newmarket (1300m) can ...

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Seriously, it never ceases to amaze me how jockeys “get around” so much these days. They bob up “here, there and everywhere” so to speak. Les ...

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Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse spontaneously erupted around 3.42pm Saturday with racegoers from all walks of life screaming and cheering ...

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Family ties and memories came to the fore when “Junior” won the $100,000 TAB Rockhampton Newmarket (1300m) for three generations of Brisbane’s ...

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Hall of Fame trainer Lee Freedman, with five Melbourne Cups among the 127 GR 1 winners to his credit has called on local apprentice Tahlia Fenlon ...

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Russell talks to Clinton Taylor about his entries for this weekend

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On the eve of its most important annual race days, the Rockhampton Jockey Club is thrilled to announce the appointment of highly skilled racing ...

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Clearing skies over Rockhampton today (Wednesday) and huge fields for Friday’s rich TAB Rockhampton Newmarket Handicap race meeting have ...

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Champion New Zealand jockey Samantha Collett who now calls Brisbane home will be hoping that the Callaghan Park track which holds special ...

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Excuse the pun but there will be considerable “hype’’ around if the Irish horse so named Hype (IRE) contests Saturday’s $150,000 TAB Rockhampton ...

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Rockhampton Jockey Club officials are buoyed after having received 248 entries for the two-feature race days of the Winter Racing Carnival at ...

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The Graeme Green trained Master Jamie never ceases to amaze me. I’ve written reams about the Poet’s Choice (GB) – Verkko 6YO gelding from ...

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Globe trotting five times GR 1 winning jockey Martin Harley has provided the Rockhampton Jockey Club with priceless rave comments about Callaghan ...

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Russell talks to Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds about his prospects for Sunday’s meeting

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“Visiting’’ horses will be chasing the spoils at Friday’s TAB races at Callaghan Park when 41% of the 76 starters are trained outside of ...

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Russell talks to jockey Warwick Satherley about his expectations for Friday

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Quality racing is guaranteed for the first official two days of the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s Winter Racing Carnival after 189 horses were ...

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What a beautiful day for a winter race meeting with predictions that it will be picture-perfect for the 21st annual Rockhampton Girls Grammar ...

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Russell speaks with Cocobrew’s May Participant Award winner, trainer Jess Kuhn

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In an about way, Saturday’s Rockhampton Girls Grammar School race day at Callaghan Park is the unofficial commencement of Rockhampton’s Winter ...

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Congratulations to Rockhampton’s Mitchell and Anna Power who were two times winners this week. Firstly with the birth of their baby  daughter ...

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From a journalistic perspective I have always enjoyed writing newsy quirky columns such as Racing Around Rockhampton. Columns allows the creator ...

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It has been a huge couple of weeks for Rockhampton jockeys both juniors and one very gifted senior. On this occasion I’ll go along with “age ...

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Russell talks to Ian Mill about the introduction of the RJC Gold Club

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Premier Rockhampton trainer Clinton Taylor was full of praise for GROUP 1 winning Brisbane jockey Ben Thompson after he made a whirl wind visit ...

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In keeping with the saying “the early bird catches the worm” ensure you get to the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s TAB races on Friday early. The first ...

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Russell talks to trainer Jason Morgan about his aspirations for Media Empire

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club is seeking an experienced professional for the important position of Chief Executive Officer. Rockhampton, with a ...

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I was delighted to see trainer Pat Dillon and his wife Louse win a race double at Callaghan Park last Thursday. How fantastic for Pat to train ...

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The glorious uncertainty of racing prevailed at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park races last Thursday when trainer Pat Dillon ended a 40 years winning ...

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Rockhampton Jockey Club’s CEO Ian Mill’s tenure is coming to a close, after a very successful period at Callaghan Park. However, his association ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club will present one of its busiest TAB race meetings for some time at Callaghan Park on Thursday (18/5) with an ...

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In an incredible feat believed to be unprecedented in the history of the  Mackay Turf Club TAB race meetings, Rockhampton trainers made a clean ...

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Russell speaks with Cocobrew’s April Participant Award winner, Course Curator, Trent Williams

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club will be one of 11 Queensland race clubs that stages racing this coming Saturday. The six event Callaghan Park TAB ...

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I was a disbeliever when Jean told me Mackay apprentice Jade Doolan rode at Warrnambool on Tuesday. I delved into RISA for Warrnambool  race ...

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Good news that all is well with Clinton Taylor trained topliner Chinny Boom. The filly reportedly pulled up sore after her out of character 7.7l ...

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To put it succinctly, Sunday’s historic first $1 million race day at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse, starring it’s richest ever run race ...

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Russell’s selections for Rocky Amateur’s richest Archer Race Day

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Startantes and Vega One, the two GR 1 race winners engaged in Sunday’s $775,000 The Archer (1300m) at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse, ...

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Just while compiling today’s (27/4) Racing Around Rockhampton Column, I feel rather emotional after just watching Bush Diamond win the QTIS 2YO ...

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The theory “that numbers don’t lie” is contentious but in the case of Rockhampton’s richest race the $775,000 The Archer (1300m) it is simply a ...

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The field for Sunday’s $775,000 The Archer (1300m) at Callaghan Park has been realigned after the declared slots for Inver Park (GB) and Soxagon ...

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The seven hours drive from one coast to another proved worthwhile on Saturday when Sunshine Coast jockey Adam Sewell rode a winning double on the ...

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Just when you think it can’t get any better it certainly does as far as the Rocky Amateurs glamour $1 million The Archer race meeting goes at ...

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If ever a young lady deserved a break, albeit not the ones she has become accustomed to, it was Sunshine Coast apprentice jockey Montana Philpot. ...

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TONY MCMAHON brings to life the voluntary efforts of the members of the Yeppoon Turf Club and that of other such race clubs in country ...

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A new name appears in the jockey listings for Thursday’s Callaghan Park, Rockhampton races in the form of apprentice jockey Ms Kiran Quilty. ...

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The much-awaited final composition of the field for Rockhampton richest race, the $775K The Archer (1300m) on April 30 came to light today when ...

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Russell talks to Bill Reid about the up coming Rocky Amateurs Archer Race

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Every picture tells a tale. The accompanying photographs certainly attest to that. The colour picture is from the front page of The Morning ...

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The all-consuming welcomed news bulletins which come out daily from Jonathon Offord (Rocky Amateurs) about Rockhampton’s richest race the ...

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The idiom “if you build it, he (they) will come” originating from the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, sits comfortably within the foundations of ...

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Rockhampton racing’s richest race the $775K The WFA Archer (1300m) has earned its rightful recognition through today’s (Thursday) announcement ...

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After a highly successful Capricornia Yearling Sales two days racing carnival almost a fortnight ago, racing returns to Rockhampton’s Callaghan ...

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It’s a writer’s dilemma more commonly known as “writer’s block” when “words don’t come easily”. I am faced with it now.  How can I do justice to ...

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Russell talks to Cocobrew’s March Participant Award winner, trainer Tom Smith

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Much Rockhampton attention will focus on Saturday’s Royal Randwick races where Maotai, Aquis Farm’s confirmed slot holder for The Archer ($775K) ...

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Exciting filly Chinny Boom will launch the first salvo for premier Rockhampton trainer Clinton Taylor in a “triple Brisbane attack” when she runs ...

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Well, the 2023 Capricornia Yearling Sales Racing Carnival which embraced Callaghan Park races on Friday and Saturday and the CYS on Sunday is as ...

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It is not always an enviable predicament to deal with when the support act goes very close to upstaging the main act. Well in a roundabout way ...

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It is not always an enviable predicament to deal with when the support act goes very close to upstaging the main act. Well in a roundabout way ...

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Home town parochialism decrees that either Jamie McConachy’s Sunnycoast or Ricky Vale’s Track Tale are the pair to beat in Saturday’s rich DLV ...

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Well before dawn which occurred at 6.05am this morning, stud grooms, horse handlers and vendors were going about their business at the ...

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Russell’s selections for the Capricornia Yearling Sale 2YO Classic Race Day, Saturday, 1st April.

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Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse and the Robert Schwarten Pavilion at the Rockhampton Showgrounds are a hive of activity presently, being ...

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Russell talks to Ian Mill about the up coming Capricornia Yearling Sales

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This weeks Capricornia Yearlings Sales Racing Carnival is poised for a spectacular start with an expanded nine race TAB card at Callaghan Park ...

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The Rockhampton racing industry is gearing for a huge week with the clock well and truly ticking away towards the Capricornia Yearling Sale ...

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Well, it is finally here, one of Rockhampton racings biggest weeks on the calendar and I wish everyone involved with the two colossal days of ...

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I write with a sad heart commencing this column today (Friday) to record the passing last Sunday of Rockhampton’s Len Milner 80. I had planned in ...

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Rockhampton Jockey Club CEO Ian Mill was elated with the success of last Saturday’s St Patrick’s Day race meeting at Callaghan Park. “Great ...

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A surplus of jockeys for a Saturday race meeting in Rockhampton and throughout country Queensland is a rarity with horses often having to be a ...

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The KGB has come out firing by capturing its sought after “man” in Toowoomba with judgement day set for April 30 in Rockhampton. Fear not, no ...

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Russell talks to Cocobrew’s February Participant Award winner Wally Welburn about his career and work at Callaghan Park

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Interest aplenty on dual fronts will centre around the mammoth Doomben nine race card on Saturday featuring both age divisions of the $500,000 ...

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Rockhampton based trainers have certainly been cleaning up when racing away from home during March. At Monday’s Mackay meeting Clinton Taylor ...

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The second piece in the 12-horse jigsaw puzzle which is the $775K WFA The Archer (1300m) has been cemented in place with the slot of talented ...

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St Patrick’s Day races at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park next Saturday has all the hallmarks of a saintly day out. The RJC would be delighted with ...

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The $150K Capricornia Yearling Sales 2YO Classic (1200m) received a well-timed “booster injection” filled with interest when Jamie McConachy ...

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In an abstract sort of way, I can imagine that the name Peaks Crossing could conjure images of a “ringer” if you were accustomed to working on ...

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Rockhampton racing history which dates back 155 years will herald a new chapter next month with the city’s first $1M race day. To be exact the ...

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Rockhampton’s richest race for juveniles, the $150,000 Capricornia Yearling Sale 2YO Classic (1200m) is just 26 days away and the big guns are ...

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Glad to be able to report that the “nominations” for the $150K Capricornia Yearling Sale 2YO Classic (1200m) and comparable 3&4YO Classic ...

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It’s almost upon us again Rockhampton’s Capricornia Yearling Sale Racing Carnival. Two days of racing at Callaghan Park over Friday, March 31 and ...

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While the party had to be put on hold for the connections of $2M GR I Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) contestant Party For Two, the bonny filly gave ...

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Brisbane’s FIFO jockey Ryan Wiggins, so dominant in Rockhampton racing over the last two seasons has broken ribs after a freakish fall at Mackay ...

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It’s a world apart from the Rockhampton Showgrounds to Melbourne’s Sandown racecourse (2040 km) but unwanted yearling sales filly Party For Two ...

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Russell talks to jockey Tahlia Fenlon about her rides this Friday

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Displaced from Victorian and New South Wales only to discover his racing bling in Queensland, budding sprinting star Milo Man will be out cut ...

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Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse is a hive of activity presently. Ian Mill of the Rockhampton Jockey Club reports that weather permitting ...

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For those smitten by the racing bug of loving the thoroughbred, birthday presents don’t come much better than winning a race. That in itself ...

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Despite the scheduling of six TAB race meetings within 17 days at Rockhampton, Mackay and Thangool this month, the RJC has done very well to get ...

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Russell talks to trainer Stephen Rundle about he’s runners Moonscape, Yandoobie and Naughty Possum

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That well-worn track bearing the name of the Bruce Highway awaits Callaghan Park trainers Adrian Coome and Tom Smith in the next day or so. Both ...

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While Rockhampton’s Capricornia Yearling Sale (CYS) gained further recognition after Party For Two ran so splendidly in Melbourne on Saturday, ...

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Presentation to Cocobrew’s January Participant Award winner Will Johnston

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After a slow start this season in regards to field sizes for 2YO races not just in Rockhampton but throughout Queensland, the numbers have ...

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Russell talks to Clint Taylor about Chinny Boom and his other runners on Friday

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Rockhampton’s Capricornia Yearling Sale, the only one of its kind in this state outside SEQ, has been inundated with record entries for its 2023 ...

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Rockhampton racing’s flagship race the $775K The Archer (1300m) has scaled unprecedented heights with the announcement that Hall of Fame trainer, ...

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Former Rockhampton apprentice jockey, the now Mackay based Nicole (Nicky) Seymour 27 was seriously injured in a freak accident at Townsville ...

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Happens every year and 2023 is no exception. Rockhampton’s Capricornia Yearling Sale keeps punching above its weight. Latest poster girl is the ...

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Allenstown butcher Geoff Elliott has a reputation for dealing in good steaks but when it comes to horseflesh the stakes have become very enticing ...

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Entries for Rockhampton’s Capricornia Yearling Sale to be held on Sunday, April 2 are looking good with reports that all the southern past big ...

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Russell talks to Jeff McKay and Shane Scriven about Racing Queensland’s training for apprentice jockeys.

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Despite falls totalling 134mm of rain over the last 12 days and massive falls in the Mackay region, the Rockhampton Jockey Club has a bumper nine ...

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It’s little wonder that a large proportion of children of racing stakeholder parents choose the racing industry as their career path. Let’s face ...

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Admittedly it is early days yet but this year’s Capricornia Yearling Sale 2YO Classic (1200m) shall we say is shaping as one “right out the box”. ...

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There’s a great chance that the Capricornia Yearling Sale Racing Carnival will get a big boost with the appearance of Rocky’s racing’s latest ...

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As if scripted, outstanding prospect Divine Purpose treated her older rivals with contempt with an audacious all-the-way win at Rockhampton’s ...

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It was a “big call” but I just had to make it. The answer came two-fold but in the first instance it was to the phone call. “Clinton speaking”, ...

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“He’s not a budgerigar or a pet as after all he is a racehorse” is as about as true a statement that trainer Kerrod Smyth has ever made. The ...

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Russell talks to Robin Adams from Cocobrew about how his interest in horse racing began.

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Of course, the big news to come out of the region this week was that Max Whitby became the first of the 12 slot holders to secure a horse for the ...

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Trainers, just expanding on an earlier message Australian Trainers Association members would have received today from Queensland’s ATA chief ...

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Let’s start off 2023 with some good news which is exactly the case for top local apprentice jockey Tahlia Fenlon. After riding trackwork for the ...

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Off the track the race is hotting up for the $775K The Archer (1300m) with prolific racehorse owner, the now Gold Coast based Max Whitby ...

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The Greek mathematician Archimedes (287BC) is regarded as the Father of Mathematics so in a diverse form Rockhampton trainer Kerrod Smyth is ...

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A new player has emerged in the rundown to the $150K Capricornia Yearling Sales 2YO Classic (1200m) staged at Callaghan Park on Saturday, April 1 ...

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Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse will host its third meeting in less than a fortnight and it’s last for 2022 with a seven race TAB card ...

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Russell talks to Nick Walsh about his upcoming star Milo Man

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Russell talks to Ian Mill about the infrastructure improvements at the Callaghan Park Complex

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Sunshine Coast apprentice jockey Sophie Blunt 21, was naturally all smiles after riding her first winner at the Gladstone Turf Club’s Christmas ...

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Sometimes you just happen to be at the right place at the right time which explains the accompanying photo. I had virtually just walked onto ...

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It will be a case of turning the clock back about 24 years when widely travelled Townsville based jockey Bonnie Thompson goes riding at ...

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Russell talks to trainer Jamie McConachy about his runners Dollar Dollar and Parkburn

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Emerald trainer Raymond Williams, enjoying a few days RAR with his partner Tracey Leake at Mooloolaba has one more run this campaign in the ...

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Rockhampton jockey Ash Butler has returned home “all the wiser” for his riding expedition to Darwin races last Friday. He had four rides for his ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club received a timely Christmas present today (Monday) by receiving the biggest list of nominations for a Callaghan Park ...

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Rockhampton jockey Natalea Summers is very fortunate to have escaped serious injury after a nasty pre-race incident at Roma races last Saturday. ...

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In nothing short of a freakish achievement, last season’s premier Rockhampton jockey Ryan Wiggins has ridden 12 winners in the last 10 days. ...

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Rockhampton jockey Ash Butler has been literally flying of late sitting on sixth place in the Queensland jockeys’ rankings with 36 winners for ...

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Once again when going through my racing memorabilia, I came across the accompanying unique photograph that just screamed out at me to share. It ...

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A late pick-up ride was the catalyst that led to Sunshine Coast based jockey Adam Sewell landing a winning double at Rockhampton races last ...

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Enormous Central Queensland interest will focus on Brisbane’s Doomben races tomorrow (Sat Dec 3) where the “country cousins” will come out in ...

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Despite 165.5mm of rain having fallen on Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse since 3am Tuesday, course manager Trent Williams believes racing ...

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Russell talks to jockey Ashley Butler about his rides on Saturday

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Rockhampton trainer Clinton Taylor’s horses have come up with their fair share of the “visitor’s draw” when they campaign away from home but ...

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An exciting second phase in the remodelling of facilities at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse commences this week after a Racing ...

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The saying goes in racing “gone from the penthouse to the outhouse” (there is a more commonly used description) and it is so true. Ipswich ...

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Hot off the press as I commenced to pen this column at 10.28am today (Friday, Nov 25) Chinny Boom has arrived safe and sound in Brisbane. “She ...

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Here’s a QRIC media release with a preamble  by Tony McMahon. Josh Adams was appointed by QRIC as the Chairman of stewards for the ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club (RJC) has announced a sizeable prize money increase and race program expansion for the Capricornia Yearling Sale ...

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Lovely to see the Heroic Valour filly Valtino score at Callaghan Park last Saturday for Jesse Beak and his grandmother Val. A $24K purchase at ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club staged the 2021-22 season Industry Awards presentation ceremony in The Members at Callaghan Park on Thursday night ...

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Lone behold it must have been meant to be, as by chance I stumbled across this brilliant photograph published in The Morning Bulletin, ...

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Highly talented Central Highlands race caller Scott” Scotty” Power has received a surprise early birthday and anniversary present through his ...

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Thursday’s eight race TAB program at Callaghan Park racecourse Rockhampton will feature some of Central Queensland’s most promising and ...

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Russell talks to Rocky Amateur’s Jonathon Offord about The Archer 2023

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What a phenomenal run the Callaghan Park trainer Jared Wehlow and jockey Ash Butler are experiencing. From my calculations Jared prepared 12 ...

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The proactive Rocky Amateurs has announced spectacular stakes increase for its signature race The Archer thereby reaffirming it as the richest ...

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That’s right – “time is a great healer”. Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racehorse trainer Craig Russell can certainly attest to that. Currently, ...

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Rockhampton trainer Graeme Green reports that the city’s champion racehorse Master Jamie has been treated for “a couple of slight blood ...

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Rockhampton trainer Jared Wehlow’s freakish winning trot gathered further momentum at Townsville races this afternoon (TUESDAY) when he trained ...

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Rockhampton trainer Graeme Green has arranged for “bloods” to be done on Master Jamie after his uncharacteristic lethargic effort in a Callaghan ...

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I have unearthed some racetrack stars in years gone by and that’s the likely scenario again after the 2022 editions were run at Callaghan Park ...

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It’s kindergarten time at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park races tomorrow Friday, November 4. Let me explain! That’s a light hearted reference to the ...

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Russell talks to trainer Craig Russell about his two last start winners ‘Round The Fire’ and ‘Way Back When’

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Another Rocky winner at Gladstone today and another class record time. Round The Fire looked a picture and raced accordingly. Congratulations ...

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You have no doubt either watched it, heard it or read about it, so I won’t procrastinate on the race any further. What? Chinny Boom’s courageous ...

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It’s Derby Day races at Yeppoon’s Keppel Park racecourse on Saturday where a huge turnout is expected to take in the five local races from ...

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“You can’t keep a good man down” so it came as no surprise that gifted prolific winning FIFO jockey Justin Stanley was back in his second home, ...

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Rockhampton and indeed Central Queensland racing has lost a grand stalwart with the passing on Tuesday night of Ron Beak. Ron 85, had been ...

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Unbeaten Rockhampton filly Chinny Boom is expected to provide trainer Clinton Taylor with his second windfall for the week when she makes her ...

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Russell talks to trainer Jared Wehlow about Malted Missile, Tricology and Sabor.

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Rockhampton racing latest pin-up girl the unbeaten filly Chilly Boom is set to start at Eagle Farm on Saturday in a $127,500 QTIS 3YO BM 72 ...

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Rockhampton’s Capricornia Yearling Sale (CYS) and the Hall family’s Graceville Thoroughbreds Mornish had a dream start to the new 2YO racing ...

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A decision will be made early on Saturday morning if star Rockhampton filly Chinny Boom will run at Doomben in the $127.5K QTIS 3YO Fillies ...

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The Gladstone Turf Club will conduct a phantom race meeting tomorrow (Saturday, October 22) with the likelihood the local races scheduled will be ...

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Former Central Queenslander Tom Button confirmed today that he and another young and talented horseman and trainer Ryan Tyrell have formed a ...

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The much-awaited Brisbane debut on Saturday of unbeaten Rockhampton filly Chinny Boom is in jeopardy because of predicted wet weather. Chilly ...

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The St Peter’s School Caulfield Cup day races at Callaghan Park on Saturday was highly successful which was no surprise. RJC CEO Ian Mill ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club is gearing for its busiest race meeting of the year with the annual St Peter’s School Caulfield Cup Day races ...

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Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse is looking spic and span for its date with fun in the sun and of course racing tomorrow (Saturday). The ...

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Russell talks to trainer Clint Taylor about plans for ‘Chinny Boom’ and his runners ‘Boom Boom Becker’, ‘Midnight ...

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Got the latest “goss” on boom Rocky filly Chinny Boom right from the horse’s mouth so to speak – her trainer Clinton Taylor and you can’t ...

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Maybe I am giving away my age of 70 years but do you remember the saying “by popular demand”? Anyhow it’s applicable as it suggests in a positive ...

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Central Queensland’s racing industry and stakeholders figured in multiple wins at the 2022 TAB Thoroughbred Awards Ceremony staged at Brisbane’s ...

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The horses are going, the trainers are going, the jockeys are going and so too will the crowd be going to Emerald’s Pioneer Park racecourse on ...

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Before we know it, the yearling sales will be upon us again. Rockhampton’s long running Capricornia Yearling Sale is scheduled for Sunday, April ...

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Despite offers of “name your price” Chinchilla owner Mark Pascoe has no intention of selling his sensational filly Chinny Boom which shattered ...

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Russell talks to trainer John Wigginton about his runners ‘Denims’ and ‘Sidearm’ for Tuesday, 4th October 2022.

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Before I forget, don’t forget racing returns to Callaghan Park, Rockhampton on Tuesday with a seven race TAB card. Over the last month the grass ...

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Gladstone born jockey Brad Pengelly 45, one of the best of his profession originating from Central Queensland announced his retirement after ...

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Rockhampton trainer Peter Fleming, a quietly spoken unassuming man and very astute in his craft rarely makes a trip to Brisbane with a horse, so ...

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The attached story is one of many in a series I have been penning for the Emerald Jockey Club in the lead-up to its feature race meeting of the ...

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It must have seemed all too surreal when rejuvenated jockey Colin Lennon 51, matter of factly brought Bittergreymagic back into the winner’s ...

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Keppel Park’s grass course proper was rated a Good 4 today (Monday) on the eve of the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s transferred TAB race meeting ...

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Last season’s Capricornia, Rockhampton and Mackay’s premiership winning apprentice Tahlia Fenlon will be sidelined for at least six weeks after ...

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Russell talks to trainer and jockey Tasha Chambers about her runners ‘Smart Rubic’ and ‘The Graduate’.

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Quite frankly it is a fulltime job keeping up with the news around Rockhampton and Central Queensland racing. For this reason, I have today ...

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Congratulations to Rockhampton trainer Nick Walsh for his outstanding achievements at the Queensland Awards ceremony of the Australian Trainers ...

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Scott Power the voice of Emerald’s Pioneer Park racecourse will call his 36th Emerald 100 there on Saturday, October 8. He says he will be just ...

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Racegoers venturing down from Rockhampton for that city’s race club’s meeting at Keppel Park racecourse Yeppoon on Tuesday will see a new ...

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History was made at Mackay’s Ooralea Gardens racecourse on Tuesday when a rank outsider named Blackshaw became the race club’s longest priced ...

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The first of a series written by Tony McMahon for the Emerald Jockey Club’s upcoming Emerald 100 race day. Emerald’s racing patriarch Noel Coyne ...

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The commonest question doing the rounds in Central and North Queensland racing circles “what’s happened to jockey Justin Stanley” has been ...

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PICTURE: Picnic In The Park returns to the winners’ stall under Chris Smith at Callaghan Park racecourse before a packed house in February, 1985. ...

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With so much having been happening around this neck of the woods over the last week I will try to cover as much as I can while attempting to make ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey conducted it’s last meeting at Callaghan on Tuesday prior to its closure for the annual grass track renovations which get ...

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Around midnight (Monday, August 29) trainer Garnett Taylor will load three horses from his Corbould Park stables onto his float bound for ...

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Russell talks to trainer Clinton Taylor about his runners ‘In Order’ and ‘Dawson Diamond’

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Experienced jockey Colin Lennon 51, formerly of Townsville has relocated to Rockhampton in a move designed to resurrect his career after a long ...

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I could write all day about “time” if I had the time. It is the subject of so many truisms including the well work “time flies” and “time has ...

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The accompanying photograph snapped over 30 years ago by master photographer Phil Wiley of The Morning Bulletin and which I don’t think has ever ...

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Trainer Kevin Miller and top apprentice Tahlia Fenlon made for a colourful duo in post-race talks after winning with Zarnado ($5.00) at Callaghan ...

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Although he didn’t say so, Callaghan Park trainer Adrian Coome is hoping it will be a case of “one upmanship” when he starts his in-form pair ...

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Russell talks to Ashley Butler about his mounts for Thursday

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In the frenetic merry-go-round we call horse racing it is so easy to lose track of industry stakeholders that have gone missing in duty. Such has ...

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Rockhampton trainer Clinton Taylor has taken to the road again this week and bobs up at Eagle Farm in Brisbane on Saturday with two starters. ...

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Rockhampton trainer Graeme Green was most forthright about his thoughts relating to his star galloper Master Jamie’s “unlucky” eighth in the ...

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I have been waiting for literally ages to get a snap of retired jockeys Wally Welburn and Geoffrey Booth together on a racecourse again. Between ...

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Rockhampton trained Namazu ($8.00), the biggest horse in training at Callaghan Park matched his stature with a giant-killing win in the $150K ...

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From a lifetime engagement in horse racing, I have always been an advocate of the philosophy that “nothing ceases to amaze me” but believe me I ...

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Stories published on this site in mid-July pertaining to the late champion jockey Ken Russell and his Memorial Garden and sculpture at ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club has announced premiership and awards winners for the 2021-22 season which wound to a close last Saturday. Trainer ...

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The Rockhampton Jockey Club has announced premiership and awards winners for the 2021-22 season which wound to a close last Saturday. Trainer ...

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As the quote goes ‘’even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door” – Douglas McArthur. Replace the door ...

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Rockhampton racing stakeholders were dominant at Saturday’s annual Middlemount Race Club meeting with the jockeys winning all races and Callaghan ...

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The merry-go-round called horse racing starts-up again at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse today (Monday) in what is going to be akin to a ...

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An era in Rockhampton racing that spanned over four decades officially ended this week when four times premier Callaghan Park trainer Lyle Rowe ...

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Rockhampton’s Tom Smith, one of Queensland’s youngest horse trainers has embarked on what he hopes may to materialise to a quantum leap in ...

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How true – “nothing stays the same forever” – which is a roundabout definition of the word change. Take for example Callaghan Park ...

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Always been a great believer in the adage – “credit where credit is due” and Rockhampton trainer Kerrod Smyth fits that bill perfectly. In recent ...

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Last week’s article on the Ken Russell Memorial Garden at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park racecourse inspired widespread memories and comment from ...

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Rockhampton racing stakeholders played dominant roles at Saturday’s feature Mackay Cup races as well as out west at Emerald. Leading the charge ...

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Excuse the pun as I know it is a no, no in journalism but on this occasion, I can’t help myself which leads me to “make hay while the sun ...

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First and foremost, congratulations go out to Rockhampton apprentice jockey Brooke Johnson on riding her debut winner at her first day of race ...

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I have always been a hoarder of old newspaper clippings relating to horse racing. Ironically, on the very day before the Ken Russell Memorial was ...

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Russell talks to Clinton Taylor about his runners for Tuesday

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Hot on the heels of its highly successful Winter Racing Carnival, the Rockhampton Jockey Club gallops back into action at Callaghan Park ...

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Recognition from one’s peers in all walks of life is inspirational which brings me to Mary Kay Ash (12/5/1918-22/1/2001). A self-made American ...

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Remember the song “The Carnival is Over”, written by Tom Springfield in 1965 for The Seekers? Well, I do and I always start singing it in my ...

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Saturday’s Rockhampton Cup winning trainer Graeme Green was genuinely stuck for words after minutes earlier his courageous thoroughbred Master ...