Eagle Farm

Big man, big man Rosso.

Over to Australia, Eagle Farm, race four.

I've got to be real careful with this name.

Number three, Kanamala, Kanash.

Like you're paying for the horse every month, you know.

So not only that, like some of those trips that we've been on, the meetup we had at the Milton Common for the Zamoyer owners that first day, the first year when he was first in work with Annabelle and Robert Eagle Farm and then – The Hamilton Island trip we did, that was a trip of a lifetime.

And just all that other sort of stuff that rolls around with it, even just the interaction day to day in that RRLC group on Facebook and stuff like that, it's quite unbelievable.

Yeah.

What do you do for work these days? So,

as most of the listeners would know, I'm in the racing industry.

I've spent the last 10 years as assistant trainer and foreman to Lindsay Goff in Brisbane at Eagle Farm.

Just pull that mic back a little bit, bro.

Because across Queensland's very diverse regions, today's race meetings are going to serve as proof of the grassroots vital energy.

And while punters nationwide will pause about two this afternoon to watch the Melbourne Cup jump, tracks at Eagle Farm in Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, the Gold Coast, Townsville, Rockhampton, and countless regional country circuits like Cumbria, they're all going to operate local race cards of their own.

So there's going to be tens of thousands of spectators attending local tracks across Queensland.

They're not going to be necessarily all dressed up to the nines, but some will want to.

I would imagine they come with a unique set of challenges.

Can you tell us some of the wild and woolly ones that you've actually had to deal with on a country cup day?

Oh, well, there's a few, but a lot of the great stuff that happens on a country race day is the same as what happens there at Doom and Eagle Farm on a Saturday or at the Gold Coast.

The fashions are huge.

Yeah, it'll be good.

Hopefully that weather doesn't eventuate and it holds off for two reasons.

One, Eagle Farms Day and also Queensland Cricket at the Gabba.

Yes, of course.

Bartlett, Hills, didn't Bartlett get pulled from that Queensland Shield on the eve of the match for the upcoming one day? How's that good for the game? Or the player? I'd like to see him with a red ball in his hand, that's for sure.

He's so exciting.

Best last 600 of the day in his last four performances all at stakes level, starting with Rare Week, which was a bit of a coma job as the Philly Blue Door led throughout and he was slowly away, but chased down Natural Fling at Eagle Farm.

His resuming win at Flemington I felt was interesting in a couple of angles, and one was he's trialled awful in Sydney, but then the Mar team got to work and his trial leading in was good and it said, all right, he's a Colt who's now switched on.

What type of performance are you expecting tomorrow?

Maybe 50 or 60 to one in this race.

Kick Up Rocky was on speed at Eagle Farm when he won first up.

That didn't surprise me because he trialled forward.

And he beat Ashkirk.

Tony Golan, great trainer.

This horse gets a good run, third or fourth.

He was beaten fairly and squarely at Eagle Farm last time out, but the horse

that