Racehorse TALK

each way, each way,  each way !

I think Bob needs a spelling lesson - it's the bloody L A BO R PARTY.

I just want to know if we can get some more sms's sent out advertising this forum again 

edit: Yes looks like Boby has been reading Ted e's ramblings and is getting worried

That dope who writes on the justracing website gives Bob full billing on yestys post.  At least we know which side that website is on.  Whenever he posts something on a raceclub he gives em full blast.  But if it is about QRL then you would swear he is simply a notice board.

poor silly ole humpty dumpty...he knows the lnp policy horan spelt it out in parliment...that is he plans to remove the despised despot and restructure qrl to a control body to foster the industry and its clubs...not a secretive racetrack operating competing organisation with the very clubs around caloundra that he has stripped of meetings for his own benthead park and his soon to be built oncourse stables...panic setting in? you betcha...see ya at the polling booths humpty ill bring a spoon

ps as if the opposition racing minister who has been labelled a dinosaur along with domed-bens saviour in bill carter will or should take any notice of the grim reaper of country racing......his propoganda website release playing politics and calling parliment "cowards castle" shows the despots labor slant.....his further pathetic attempt to somehow link mssrs horan and carter to "fine cotton" was a desperate act by a desperate man
his integrity statement is a joke surely?
after the disappearance of mssr woods,dr bob,andy hedges and numerous stewards to be replaced by a new onion in the we investigate "ourselves" rort is evidenced by the  "silence" the media debacle that is/was the terry butts saga-licence back in secret-egg on bob and the onions face



the very fact that in the prescence of wee andy fraser and the minister in charge of dipsticks inc in timmy mulherin and broadcast live to a national melbourne cup day audience at mackay 07 -they covered up the most serious breach of workplace health and safety seen in queensland racing and did not acknowlodge or dissmiss one john hackett over the endangerment of jockeys lives and the general public surely shows how rotten to the core this crew of despots are....for a deputy chief steward of qrl to allow not one but 2 races to proceed with no ambulance following the field and the same ambulance abandoned on the course proper-yep in front of the winning post is testament to th low-missing integrity that poor silly dribblin bob espouses....ditto

you dont need ole ted e when page 12 of the courier snaps it out with the head line----lnp would dump racing boss
one of qld sports most controversial figures will be sacked as the coalition courts the bitterly divided qld racing industry...........what press release now bob ? united we can never be defeated ?

bring it on

They pay him for advertising 

Can't be biting the hand that feeds ya 

To his credit, PP on his Justracing website did bag the Cushion Track as the Toowoomba main course pretty well. Given his comments on that topic it is hard to perceive him as a QRL noticeboard.

its a un-even balance to bag your sponsors so he has treaded that line and have to agree with grega....magic is in competition al-be-it a diferant one....ah you gotta love it like phil love him or leave him but his journalistic style is a bit down the path of my "rambling rants" as magic and others put it...

Bob Bentley will be dumped if LNP wins election
Article from: Courier Mail
Michael Crutcher
March 02, 2009 11:00pm
ONE of Queensland sport's most controversial figures will be sacked if Labor loses office as the Coalition courts a divided racing industry.

Bob Bentley will be dumped as Queensland Racing chairman if the Liberal National Party wins the March 21 election after his long-running battle with the Opposition racing spokesman Mike Horan.

Last month, Mr Bentley labelled Mr Horan a "dinosaur" and as someone whose "achievements in racing could be written on a postage stamp with a carpenter's pencil".

He was responding to a speech in Parliament, where Mr Horan described Mr Bentley as a "dictator".

"I do not believe he is fit to hold the job and I believe that the minister should step in and get rid of Queensland Racing and Mr Bentley," Mr Horan told Parliament.


The headline, no doubt,  is the work of a sub editor ,nowhere in the body of Michael Crutcher's story is there any statement by Horan that Bob will be sacked .He's relying on Horan's speech in State Parliament a few weeks ago.Whether Horan  reiterated that  off the record as his intention may or may not be the case.

But while there is significant antipathy towards Bob Bentley and possibly other Directors there are a couple of obstacles that Horan has to clear before being in a position to bring about any changes in the management of the racing industry.

First the LNP has to win government and despite the ALP's numerous failings and IMO   it doesn't deserve  to win  even though  the opposition is suspect  it will require a massive swing for LNP to top them on election day.
 Secondly as indicated in the QRL press release posted by DD  QRL is not  a statutory authority but a limited company and the Directors are elected by the 15 or so representative comprising Class A members and is  licensed to control racing to 2012.So it won't be an easy task to dismantle QRL and/or sack Bob Bentley simply because Horan doesn't like him or that sections of the industry hate him as we've seen evidence of on this forum and elsewhere.

I had to laugh yesterday in Obi's CM EAR column he remarked on rumours that the control  of racing would revert to the QTC adding that the QTC wont exist having mergeed with the BTC to form the BRC .It would be  a million to one imo  and drifting for this to happen and no sensible person would support this IF and it's a pretty big IF the LNP happens to get over the line on Mar 21.

So Bob's  appeal to both parties to disclose their Racing policy imo is a good move, one that assuming they respond will be of benefit to all of us with an interest in the game.More to come.

Arsenal, I agree with you about the odds of Obi's rumour.

However, the article in the paper today had this quote:



If it is LNP policy to get rid of Queensland Racing, then they probably should tell us what they are going to replace it with ?

the swing you seem to think is too much of a ask is 7.3 per cent i think.......thats gunna be easy as racing stakeholders are in the major major majority wanting to see him punted
queensland voters who will be responsible for the swing have been waiting with baseball bats for months....the many that know understand how broken we are and how much of a liar bligh after her "im going full term" and under 2 weeks later launches her victorian website and calls a snap early election have joined the team...labor promises tax rises lnp none....labor promises to fudge all their upcoming court cases the lnp will not....to give these broken corrupted and incompetant labor stooges another 3 years...please! why did she call a election again? beware cornered rats on the sinking hmas blight they will do and say anything to avoid the voters rat-sack
hi bob and the spinners...you out there porky