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QUEENSLAND Racing Limited (QRL) has today received advice from the Rockhampton Jockey Club (RJC) that at a meeting of members conducted last night, the membership of the RJC provided its approval to enable the committee of the RJC to enter into a company structure with QRL that will own the land and infrastructure at Callaghan Park.

QRL chairman Mr Bob Bentley said the vote by the members of the RJC ensures the racing industry in central Queensland is accountable for its own destiny and is positioned to provide high quality facilities at Callaghan Park.

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RACING authorities should have taken steps to control the fox problem at Rockhampton’s Callaghan Park, claims a jockey whose career was ruined by one of the feral pests.

The Morning Bulletin reports that Justin Welburn, 38, was working the racehorse Guilty on the sand training track before dawn one morning in March 2007 when a fox dashed across his path. The racehorse pulled up and he fell.

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THE Gold Coast Turf Club Board will this weekend offer to lease their racing and training tracks to Queensland Racing in an 11th-hour bid to save the long-term future of Magic Millions and secure an upgrade of facilities.

The Gold Coast Bulletin reports that GCTC chairman Andrew Eggleston last night revealed the board had voted to offer to a `compromise proposal' to Queensland Racing which would see the club lease the course proper and training tracks to the governing body for $1 a year.

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CONGRATULATIONS to the Gold Coast Bulletin on an editorial today which precisely sums up the controversy surrounding the failure of Queensland Racing to allocate a date for the Magic Millions block-buster on the tourist strip next January.

We reproduce this editorial, courtesy of the Bulletin and News Limited. It is a must read for all racing fans and stakeholders and we have added the question and answer that it provoked from Shadow Racing Minister Ray Stevens and Racing Minister Peter Lawlor in the Queensland Parliament today.

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RACING Minister Peter Lawlor was again conspicuous by his absence as yet another Labor mate trashed a Gold Coast sporting and tourism icon, the LNP said today.

Shadow Minister for Tourism and Fair Trading Ray Stevens said because of Labor mate Terry Mackenroth, the Gold Coast lost the Indy car race.

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OVER a dozen e-mails concerning the controversy confronting Gold Coast Magic Millions day had been received by this web-site within a few hours of the news breaking and the majority was critical of Racing Minister Peter Lawlor.

There were two supporting the move by Queensland Racing not to assign a date pending some resolution between the Gold Coast Turf Club and the Magic Millions Company. Most described the threat as a ‘stunt’ while others accused QRL chairman Bob Bentley of playing a behind-the-scenes role.

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QUEENSLAND Racing and the Magic Millions company have aimed a shotgun at the head of the Gold Coast Turf Club - one refusing to sign a deal and the other using that as a reason for not allocating the big race date next January.

According to a report by Daniel Mears in today's Gold Coast Bulletin, QRL chairman Bob Bentley wants the block-buster meeting to stay on the Gold Coast but industry insiders say his support hinges on the GCTC agreeing to redevelopment demands which 'amount to a takeover of the complex.'

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IN his popular column Silks and Saddles in the North Queensland Register, TERRY BUTTS reports that the only certainty about the future of racing in Townsville is that it will continue. What is not certain is who will be in charge.

It’s doubtful if anyone outside the committee, and obviously Queensland Racing, knows just how much financial strife the century-old Townsville Turf Club is in.

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BARNEY’S ‘Birdsville Bash’ is on again this year and he has wasted no time informing us of a couple of changes designed to make the trip less taxing toward the end and also enhance the outback experience.

This year Barney’s Birdsville Cup racing trip will leave the Sunshine Coast on Monday August 30 at 6.30am and travel to Roma for an overnight stay in a motel.

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OF all the racing States in Australia, for some unknown reason QUEENSLAND is the hot-bed of rumor mongering and racetrack gossip – perhaps it’s the warmer climate. We will continue to air some of the ‘grievances’ and ‘inquiries’ received in dozens of e-mails to this web-site daily in a regular racing 'BELIEVE IT OR NOT' column.

The hottest topics to the e-mail box in the past week have seen a stunning new twist to the Baby Boom race inquiry; concerning allegations about what is happening in the betting ring on Brisbane race days; questions about the financial plight and enforced takeover of clubs throughout the state by Queensland Racing; and a number of other contentious issues.

 

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