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FINANCIAL PICTURE CONFRONTING RQ IS EVERY BIT ‘DOOM & GLOOM’ 
ALAN GIBSON of BRISBANE sent this interesting observation on the financial state of play at Racing Queensland:
AS a regular reader of your website, but not previously as a contributor, your latest reprint of a media statement by the Chairman of the Queensland Thoroughbred Trainers’ Association has wakened me from complacency.
The QTA Chairman’s description of the RQ loss of $11.8 million for the year ended June 2015 as ‘not brilliant’ was, in my opinion, almost an understatement.
But I was astounded when he went on to justify that loss on the basis of the closure of Eagle Farm and Townsville tracks, the latter for only part of the year.
Bewilderment is the only word that could describe my feelings as I read on and the QTA Chairman followed up with: ‘All is not doom and gloom’
Who is he kidding? The financial picture is a slap in the face with a dead mullet for any racing stakeholder who can read a balance sheet.
For those who struggle to understand the financial standing of RQ the actual trading position is not what it appears. I will stress that there is nothing illegal or shady in how this result is presented.
But what it does is cloud the future of Racing Queensland's viability as a financial stand-alone entity and its actual day to day operation.
Racing Queensland revalued its assets for the 2015 financial year. This is a normal function and should have possibly been done in prior years. The resultant valuation increased the value of RQ’s assets by $36.4 million with the Sunshine Coast racing facility purchased by the Bentley Board in 2011 for $5 million accounting for the biggest rise, increasing the valuation of the Corbould Park complex by $24 million.
The revaluation amount of $36.4 million is not cash. It is paper profit held on the balance sheet and the value will only be unlocked as collateral for borrowings. In the event of a sale the purchase price will reflect the revaluation and will be realized in cash, but until that day arrives the value is locked up in the balance sheet. The catch here of course is that the Sunshine Coast asset cannot be sold. It is a pivotal asset of the industry, as is the likes of Eagle Farm.
The Sunshine Coast Turf Club accounts are in the public domain and report an operating profit of $692,235 as the headline when actually they have not accounted for depreciation and other items in this headline. When other items are taken into account the actual operating result is a profit of $2,794. The accounts reveal that they have taken up the revaluation amount of $3,795,257.
The Gold Coast Turf Club was taken to account by Peter Cameron in The Sunday Mail. The club got cute and booked grants from Racing Queensland and the Queensland Government to revenue to return a profit.
Toowoomba Turf Club has divided its accounting reporting periods, for what reason remains questionable. Enough said on this little jewel of the racing industry.
The solution to all this needs to be a practical and accurate update of the industry as to the collective financial position of the control body and all clubs combined. The result may prove to be a very ugly sink hole of unsustainable current practice and outgoings.
It will need to be done by Ministerial direction and oversight by the Auditor-General. The Palaszczuk Government needs to step up to the plate before it is too late.
The current administration is kicking the can down the road in a similar fashion to the Greek republic and we know what happed there.
The Racing Minister is asleep at the wheel, or getting bad and biased advice, or all three.
There are no good outcomes for the industry by adopting a policy of no confrontation, hoping that the mess will be left to be cleaned up by someone else.
The new man on the block (Interim RQ CEO) Ian Hall (from KPMG) admits he knows nothing about racing and that is self evident. The solution seems to be to surround himself with new employees who collectively know nothing about racing. The sad part about these new ‘gun’ employees is they think they know. This makes them even more dangerous.
Ian Hall inherited a mess from Kevin Dixon's Board but he has been there long enough to make some headway and tough decisions.
It has been widely reported in the media and on your website that the Kevin Dixon Board and administration inherited a sound financial operation with significant assets and cash in the bank. Sadly they squandered the advantage, made numerous unwarranted grants to clubs in the first three months of their administration, all in the misguided notion that popularity was the way forward. The Dixon Board made race clubs the centre of the universe. This was diametrically opposite to the Bentley Board which ran racing as a business and made decisions accordingly.
Finally, to single out the harness and greyhound codes performances is not at all rational or helpful. They are part of the racing industry. They fulfill a function and whether the thoroughbred code likes it or not, they are part of the much publicized fabric of the industry that thoroughbreds have ridden home when it suited to obtain favor with Governments of all persuasions.
‘SHABBY TREATMENT OF TOWNSVILLE CUP DAY BY SKY, UBET & NEWS LTD’ 
ALBERT WILLIAMS, of REDCLIFFE, a regular and valued contributor to the WHINGE, sent this email protesting the shabby treatment of Townsville Cup day:
‘AS a former proud North Queenslander – and a passionate racing follower for longer than I care to remember – I cannot for the life of me understand this snub of the Townsville Cup by some big entities.
I was amazed to read in the Silks and Saddles column by Terry Butts – who has his finger on the pulse of all things racing in the north – how SKY and UBET had turned their backs on the Cup meeting.
Not for one moment am I degrading the importance of racing in Longreach but surely Townsville should have taken precedence even if this Cup was slotted into a later date because of the track redevelopment. It was important to showcase the new Cluden to the racing world.
What we saw instead was a total snub of Townsville Cup day by SKY (if they couldn’t find a talking head to host the meeting I’ll give up – especially after they flew one from Sydney to work at the Sunshine Coast last Friday night).
As for UBET, well the least said about that weak-kneed betting entity the better. They would rather put their mobile betting van on the ground at Longreach (after driving it all the way to Cairns). How can that be justified from a betting viewpoint when there were five times as many people at the Townsville Cup meeting than the races at Longreach?
I see where they had the biggest crowd in two decades at the races after over 2,000 attended a drought relief concert at the Stockman’s Hall of Fame the previous night. Well there were over 10,000 at Cup day in Townsville – reportedly the best crowd in a decade. I am also advised that the TAB turnover on Townsville was almost $1 million compared to $100,000 at Longreach. Perhaps I should have compared it to Toowoomba.
Having been dealt the ultimate insult by SKY and UBET, two lightweights of the racing industry that wouldn’t survive without industry money, the Townsville Turf Club was then dealt another blow by The Courier-Mail.
I am one of the few who still get my daily thrown over the fence – that will soon end – but to my dismay when I went looking for the Townsville Cup day fields in the Form Guide on Friday morning I could not find them. There was Longreach – all six races of that club’s big day – but no coverage of the 10 races from Townsville. Yet we had fields for some of the most obscure meetings in the land. Eventually I got to see the fields on Saturday but that’s not good enough for an organization that gets paid millions by the TAB to run its Form Guides every year.
All I can say is that after Honey Toast won the Townsville Cup, I hope that one of its owners – Glenn Butcher – was made aware of the shabby treatment the club received from SKY, UBET and News Limited (I am told the coverage in the local daily was woeful a well). You see, Glenn does have the ear of the Premier. He is the new Labor Member for Gladstone.’
NEWS FROM OUR SPY IN THE DEAGON BUNKER 
IS FORMER SKY CHANNEL HEAD HONCHO LOOKING FOR A JOB AT RQ?
THE story goes that former SKY Channel Head Honcho Brendan Parnell has been sounding out the prospects of a top job – apparently CEO – for the newlook Racing Queensland.
Apparently Parnell, who hails originally from the Sunshine Coast, took a redundancy from SKY, where he made a meteoric rise to one of the top jobs but in the process copped a backlash over some of the decisions made.
Parnell arguably has better credentials than most for the role of CEO but that job isn’t likely to be advertised until after the new Board is in place by the New Year which is expected to coincide with an announcement about prizemoney which won’t be the Christmas present that most industry stakeholders are hoping for.
‘SHOULDN’T THEY WAIT FOR A NEW BOARD BEFORE MAKING APPOINTMENTS?’ 
‘THE joke doing the rounds in the Deagon Bunker surrounds the number of new job appointments.
The wags reckon if ‘short haul’ keeps spending on new high paying roles at RQ he will eventually reach than $28 million loss that has been forecast this financial year.
What many stakeholders want to know is why he wouldn’t wait for a new Board and more importantly a new CEO to be appointed before calling applications for these positions.
Surely they are the people that should be deciding who can best serve the newlook RQ.
And by the way what is the timeframe for the establishment of the new Integrity structure and will the acting Head of Integrity and Stewarding be required to apply for that position?’
HOW MUCH ARE THESE JUNKETS TO COUNTRY RACE DAYS COSTING RQ? 
PLENTY of key staff from RQ have been enjoying junkets around the state to feature race days from Cairns to Longreach and Rockhampton.
It would be nice to know what the travel and accommodation expense bill has been for these free-loaders.
More to the point what does having them on the ground achieve on these big days? About all it does is give the ‘locals’ a face to put to the ‘name’ that is of little use to them when they call RQ for assistance. The least said about ‘the German’ on that front the better.
As for ‘short haul’ well he’s floating around everywhere, making himself known and his presence felt but ask a question and don’t expect an answer you can understand.
The biggest surprise on Townsville Cup day came with a suggestion that the Racing Minister has been ‘gagged’ from talking freely to stakeholders or the media on important or contentious issues.
This was confirmed by a couple of key industry figures who found Bill Byrne to be quite evasive and less than comfortable in their presence on Cup day at Cluden.
The word has been out there for some time that the new Racing Minister’s hands are tied. What those at the coalface want to know is who has ‘gagged’ him, who is calling the shots and an undertaking that a key figure from the ‘worst performer’ of the three codes isn’t having the ‘greatest influence’ on the direction the industry is heading.
‘IS CHRIS WALLER A BAD JUDGE AS A TIPSTER OR JUST ANOTHER CAGEY KIWI’? 
‘ONE of the things I most look forward to in retirement is having a punt on weekends.
I like to do my form and try to find the time to listen in to Shane Anderson on his RSN Show of a morning keeping a close ear to the interviews he does with trainers.
In the past year I have managed to back plenty of winners thanks to his informative chats with trainers, jockeys, owners and any number of people.
But I want to have a bitch about Chris Waller. He might be a champion trainer but he’s an awful judge – at least when it comes to publicly tipping his horses.
I am struggling to work out whether he is a bad judge or just a cagey Kiwi. My gut feeling is you don’t train that many winners being a bad judge.
Last week I listened intently as Anderson waded through the large number of runners that Waller had on Saturday. He had an amazing number, something like 15 starters at Rosehill and five at Caulfield.
At the end of the very informative interview, Anderson asked: “And what’s your best?” To which, Waller replied: ‘Catkins’.
So I thought, Chris is a better judge than me so I will have the majority of my bank on Catkins on Saturday even though she was at short odds.
I can handle losing but when an odds-on favorite performs that badly after being declared the best of a strong bunch by the trainer then I get a little annoyed.
Surely Waller can’t be that bad a judge. Then again when Catkins was resuming he told the racing media that she was ‘a risk’. Out the gate she went to an unbelievable price in the betting and home she strolled.
I did note that Waller still had two winners – Press Statement – not my odds at $1.30 and Vanbrugh, another favorite at $2.8, which I didn’t manage to back.
Sydney racing is quickly becoming a no-go zone for me. I used to live in Brisbane – that’s how I follow your website – but moved to Melbourne when I retired to be closer to my grandkids. I gave up on Brisbane racing a long time ago and looking through the results nothing much has changed up there.
I cannot catch Waller. Many times when I back one of his I find that it gets knocked off by a lesser fancied stablemate. If I listen to the one he suggests, it mostly gets beaten. Catkins was the last straw on Saturday.
From here on in I am going to restrict my betting to Melbourne racing or Victorian horses that race interstate. That way at least I am going to get a run for my money and most of all, at the end of the day, I won’t feel as though I’ve been robbed.’
‘WHO NEEDS STEWARDS WHEN YOU HAVE THE RACING MEDIA APOLIGISTS FOR WALLER’? 
‘ONCE again we have another hot favorite floperoo from the Waller stable and what do we get – nothing but excuses from the racing media.
Rather than ask some tough questions as to how Catkins could perform lengths below her best at Rosehill on Saturday, here’s what was served up by Ray Thomas in the News Limited papers and to call it a ‘suck up’ to Waller would be an understatement.
CATKINS ran below her best but trainer Chris Waller was still able to maintain his phenomenal Sydney Saturday winning streak this season at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.
Press Statement and Vanbrugh gave Waller a winning double meaning the trainer has now prepared at least two winners at every Sydney Saturday race day since the start of 2015-16 — that is nine weeks in succession!
Racing NSW stewards did ask questions about the run of Catkins, the $1.75 favourite who struggled when fifth to Peeping in the Golden Pendant.
Although there was no obvious explanation for the flop, perhaps Catkins was flattened by her comeback win in the Sheraco Stakes two weeks earlier. Also, although everything is much easier in hindsight, Catkins has now had 10 starts at 1400m for one win and she has lost more times than she has won (eight starts, three wins) when second-up from a spell.
The question I would like answered is: How could such a great trainer get it so wrong with one of his stable stars?
At the end of the day Catkins could come out next start and bolt in and it would be put down to just one of those things or in the eyes of the racing media another great training performance by Waller to turn her form around.
What a joke!’
‘ODDS-ON FLOPS ARE BAD ENOUGH WITHOUT MENTIONING FORM REVERSALS’ 
MUCH has been made of some big flops in weekend racing but what about the form reversals that little has been said about?
Mourinho couldn’t pick his feet up in the G2 Feehan at the Valley when sixth to The Cleaner then he comes out in the G1 Underwood last Saturday and upstages Fawkner and The Cleaner. He was $5.5 in one and $18 in the other.
Peeping ran last of nine – beaten 10 lengths by Catkins in the G3 Sheraco – then comes out and makes that same mare look second rate with an upset win in the G2 Golden Pendant. She was $9.5 when beaten and $16 when she won. And yes, I am aware that she pulled up with cardiac arrhythmia in the Sheraco – so did the punters after Catkins went so poorly last Saturday.
Apart from short priced favorites getting bowled over like nine pins it becomes even tougher for punters when the winners turn in major form reversals.
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BE WARY WHEN THEY LOOK A GOOD THING – HALF OF THEM GET BEATEN 
‘WHY is it whenever something looks a good thing in racing, about 50 per cent of the time it gets beaten?
Are the market framers and the punters that bad a judge?
Saturday was another classic example when Catkins was bowled over at odds-on in Sydney and Craftiness stopped like he was shot in Melbourne. If someone had suggested that both wouldn’t run a place you would have had them certified.
Jockey Hugh Bowman told a stewards’ inquiry that Catkins was disappointing in that she raced flat and could not quicken when asked to improve prior to straightening. Tell the punters something they didn’t already know or see.
A stable representative – once again a top trainer was apparently not required to attend an important inquiry in Sydney racing – told stewards that Catkins had returned to racing overweight and was still 10kg heavier than at her previous campaign going into Saturday’s race.
Well it didn’t seem to bother her when she won the Sheraco first-up after trainer Chris Waller had cast some doubt on her ability to do so which saw her price drift alarmingly yet last Saturday he declared her his best chance of the day. Work that one out.
I couldn’t even find a reference to any questions being asked about Craftiness at Caulfield but might I suggest that Blake Shinn got a shade trigger happy and went far too fast in the early stages. That favorite had to tire.’
The flops of hot favorites weren’t restricted to the big states with another biting the dust in Brisbane on Saturday which is par for the course. Beckham looked a good thing but couldn’t manage a place after being pressured in front.
'MOVE TO EXTEND TENURE OF GCTC CHAIRMAN MAKES NO SENSE' 
A long-standing MEMBER OF THE GOLD COAST TURF CLUB, who last week lodged his protest at a move to extend the period that Chairman Brett Cook can serve as Chairman, has sent a follow-up email:
‘WHILST I respect the right of Brett Cook to want to serve for 10 years as Chairman of the GCTC, I still think the proposal sets a dangerous precedent.
I was glad to see the Gold Coast Bulletin run a story on this controversial issue as now a lot more members are talking about it and I will be extremely surprised if the vote succeeds.
At least former Chairman Andrew Eggleston added some sanity to the debate when he publicly opposed the idea. Let’s face it most Chairmen have already been a director of the Club for five or more years before they are elected. Do we want to see some of them stick around for 15 or 20 years?
This five-year rule was introduced for a reason. Granted there is the exception and it seems unfair that some Chairmen should be forced to stand down after that period. But overall it makes more sense to err on the side of caution and ensure that no-one gets too comfortable running the show. In my opinion, and that of many other Members I have spoken to, if a Chairman cannot achieve what he wants to in five years then he shouldn’t be there.’
EDITOR’S NOTE: HERE is a story by BRAD DAVIDSON in the GOLD COAST BULLETIN that the above email refers to:
BRETT Cook is keen to extend his reign as the Gold Coast Turf Club chairman beyond the maximum five-year limit but whether it can happen will be up to the club’s members.
The GCTC board has put forward a motion for members to vote on requesting the maximum five-year limit a person can be club chairman for be extended to 10 years.
The motion must receive a 75 per cent vote in favour from members for the constitution to be changed.
The five-year limit was introduced to replace no limit about 15 years ago and former GCTC chairman Andrew Eggleston insists the proposed change to 10 years would be a step in the wrong direction.
“That was put in place to keep the board fresh and moving ahead and to stop the club becoming stagnant and I think it would be a move in the wrong direction to change it,” he said.
GCTC deputy chairman Arch McDonald disagrees and said the club wanted to have the option to keep Cook in the chair beyond his five-year term, which expires at the end of next year.
It comes as Racing Queensland is staring down the barrel of a projected $28 million loss this financial year.
All four RQ boards were also abolished and its members sacked in June following the greyhound live baiting scandal and the State Government is currently in the process of appointing a new seven-person RQ board.
McDonald said it was important to have experience in the GCTC chairman role at this crucial stage.
“With the change in personnel at Racing Queensland we need experience in the industry in Queensland particularly in the major roles where some of the administration in racing needs to be carefully considered and Brett’s input assisting RQ and the board would be much valued,” he said.
Cook, who was not part of the board’s talks to extend the chairman limit to 10 years, said he simply wanted to finish what he started.
The GCTC now has a plush grandstand but the club need to resubmit a business case to the soon-to-be-appointed RQ board to receive funding for the much needed upgrade to the club’s training tracks and course proper.
“I want to finish the job I started and to get the club fully self sufficient and get the training track and course proper upgrades complete,” he said.
The GCTC released their 2014-15 annual report this week, with the club recording a cash profit of $151,365 last financial year to the delight of Cook.
“This profit was still achieved after the club invested substantially in taking over Traintech,” he said.
A net surplus of $11.46 million was achieved in 2014-15, while race meeting income increased by 17 per cent and member subscriptions by 13.8 per cent.
Total value of the club’s assets increased by $5.83 million to $46.3 million.
However, income from tote commissions was down 9.7 per cent in a concern for the club.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE ‘RUDDERLESS’ SHIP RUNNING RACING QUEENSLAND 
DUE to an oversight we failed to run this contribution from North Queenslander PETER JAMES for last week’s Whinge. Our apologies for that and better late than never, so here goes:
‘I just want to bring to your attention what I feel is a disgusting situation regarding Gordonvale's upcoming Cup day on October 3.
Somehow the brains trust at ‘we run as one’ Racing Queensland's apparently rudderless ship has seen fit to award a TAB date to Cairns on Thursday October 1.
The effect on Goronvale's main meeting (one of two each year) will have to be devastating.
The majority of trainers and jockeys will surely opt for the better prize-money on offer at Cairns and either overlook Gordonvale or nominate ‘second string’ horses.
Gordonvale does not deserve this slap in the face.
Under the presidency of Cameron Riches, Gordonvale has gone ahead in leaps and bounds in the last few years – even convincing RQ to allocate a further race date to them in March next year – albeit a one-off at this stage, although I am sure they will fight to retain the date in the future.
Surely if RQ had a modicum of a sense of fair play or a pinch of commonsense they could have offered Gordonvale a TAB meeting – going so far as scheduling maybe three more races, even four, and possibly inviting Gordonvale to stump up some additional prize-money that RQ could have matched dollar for dollar.
Atherton managed to stage TAB meetings when Cairns’ new ‘all weather’ track (what an unfunny joke – 15mm of rain and a ‘no go ‘zone) failed repeatedly earlier this year.
In a nutshell, Gordonvale has to follow a TAB meeting 25km to their north two days later on about three weeks’ notice and try to salvage the second of their two annual race dates – their Cup Day – through NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN.
From memory there were only five horses in the Cup field last year – how many this year?
I just hope that the powers that be kissed Gordonvale when they delivered the news. It's awful being rooted without some kissing.
And don't get me started on Cairns not allowing the Ambos to do a full lap of the inner track at the Amateurs.
Jockey Davin Green is somewhat fortunate that he hit the turf before the furlong plus section of no-man’s-land that the ambulance couldn’t directly access because of hospitality tents. Are they kidding?’
‘IT MUST BE NICE TO HAVE THE READY CASH TO MOUNT ANOTHER LEGAL CHALLENGE’ 
‘IT must be nice to have the ready cash that Dan Nikolic seems to find to employ high profile lawyers to run to the courts every time a decision goes against him.
He has headed down that well-worn track yet again. This time the Supreme Court has asked Victorian Police Commissioner Graham Ashton to explain why Nikolic has been banned from racecourses. To some of us that is quite amazing.
Hope they have set aside a good deal of the court’s time to hear the explanation.
Poor ‘Dan the Man’ – he’s confronted by more hurdles than a Grand National starter at the moment in his attempt to return to the saddle.
With his career on the ropes in Victoria, he turned to what was expected to be a sympathetic ear at Racing Queensland but the timing could not have been worse.
Just when he looked like being relicensed in the north the Victorian Police Commissioner announced he had been banned from racecourses in that state.
Queensland had no real alternative but to reject his application which saw Nikolic off to the courts – yet again – in an attempt to overturn the police ruling which followed a decision by the previous Victorian Police Commissioner to bar him from Crown Casino.
Just when it seemed like things couldn’t get worse for Nikoic, Racing Victoria declared he was ‘not a fit and proper person’ to hold a license in that state.
Perhaps it’s time to give Dan his day in court and let all these authorities explain why they believe these rulings were necessary in a forum where these matters can be reported to the racing public.
If all else fails perhaps they can find a riding vacancy for him in Afghanistan.'
‘WHY THE CONTINUING MOODY FLARE UPS IF LEGAL TEAM CONFIDENT OF WIN’? 
‘THE racing rumor mill is rife in Victoria that the Moody legal team has an ace up its sleeve and that he will escape serious penalty in the cobalt case hanging over his head.
If you are to believe the ‘stories’ emanating from those ‘close to the stable’ both in Victoria and in the Far North of Queensland, there is an air of confidence that charges against Moody will not be substantiated.
My friends and I have been chatting about this and cannot wait for Pete to have his case heard. What we cannot understand is this. If they are so confident of winning – why the procrastination about a hearing date?
Wouldn’t you want to get it done and dusted rather than ‘blow up’ every time another rut appears in the road? Why put yourself through so much stress if at the end of the day you think no serious charges will be substantiated?
Time will tell I guess!
And on the subject of those supposedly in the know, well ‘they’ are claiming that one of Victoria’s biggest owners and most prominent stables has a positive – don’t know to what substance, but it promises to make the headlines soon if the ‘rumors’ are correct.’
EDITOR’S NOTE: THE above email probably refers to this story by MATT STEWART in the HERALD SUN last week:
THE deadline for Peter Moody to notify officials of his preferred cobalt hearing date came and went on Friday — with no notification.
It is believed Moody’s legal team required more time to establish the nature of its defence. The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board was informed of the requirement for more time and will be informed sometime next week — probably Wednesday — of a preferred hearing date.
At Moody’s recent directions hearing two dates were proposed, linked to two different defences.
If Moody was to challenge the “science’’ of cobalt — whether it improved performance — his counsel Matt Stirling advised the board he required sufficient time to gather evidence and witnesses and was granted a December 14 hearing date.
If Stirling and Moody opted not to challenge the science Moody was to have been the first of the “cobalt four’’ stables to face the RAD Board, on October 5 — two days after the AFL Grand Final.
The Herald Sun understands Moody is fed up with the ongoing saga and preferred October 5, but also said he was determined to beat the charge of administrating cobalt to Lidari last spring, a charge that if proven could have Moody disqualified for three years.
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