#King Of The Mountain

The big day and 10 super races await us. With fine weather for most of the week the track should be good and if anything like last week on-pacers will have an advantage. History has shown that form stands up on this day and I will be with those that can keep out of trouble and have proved their credentials. BEST BET: INDISCREETLY (Race 10 No…

Spacewalk and Steel City have attracted plenty of support from TAB Fixed Odds punters going into the Rosehill Gardens meeting on Saturday. "When markets opened on Wednesday, Spacewalk was the first horse backed," TAB spokesman Andrew Georgiou said. "We wrote a lot of big bets against him in the first 20 minutes of betting and since then, although…

A close relation to Caulfield Cup winner Incentivise is favourite with Ladbrokes.com.au for the feature race at Toowoomba on Saturday night, the King Of The Mountain (1200m). Argyle Lane is the little brother of Incentivise and has done little wrong in his short career to date. He is trained on the track and off the back of a dynamic win at Eagle…

Trainer Cameron Richardson with Zuma California and jockey Angela Jones. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography Cameron Richardson is a captain in the Australian Army but has given up full-time service to focus on his racing passion. And the Toowoomba trainer could on Saturday march away with a $3m Stradbroke Handicap golden ticket for his…

Northern Express takes on the Pierata Plate at Doomben on Saturday. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography Toowoomba trainer Michael Nolan could be spoiled for choice in rich races if his underrated but high performing sprinter Northern Express tangles with the big guns with success at Doomben on Saturday. Northern Express, owned by a north…

Bloody "Pop-Up" races - they are everywhere these days. Call them what you like, Everest's, anything "Golden" in Sydney, Gong's, Hunter's, All-Star Miles in Melbourne, even a Quokka in the West or an Archer or King of the Mountain in Queensland. Shame the idea wasn't patented. But before all of them came Bill Gibbins and such a fanciful idea at the…

A betting blackout on Queensland racing is again looming with some corporate bookmakers seething over the Point Of Consumption tax hike, due to kick in on December 1. It can be confirmed at least one major corporate bookmaker is set to remove all Queensland products from their home page and put any product from the Sunshine State last on their site…