Just got the email from QBA urging Owners Trainers to boycott noms for next Saturday and Melbourne Cup day.

Will be interesting about 11am this morning.

1 nom for Doomben, 2 for Townsville, 0 for Toowoomba, 0 for Gold Coast

Leading thoroughbred outfit Aquis has thrown its support behind the Queensland racing industry, guaranteeing all Queensland-based runners at the Canterbury night race meeting this Friday (26 October) and Royal Randwick this Saturday (27 October) will receive a financial return for their investment in the industry.

Racing NSW and Aquis today announced a minimum payment of $1,000 for all starters not finishing in the first 10 at the Canterbury and Royal Randwick meetings. Aquis will fund the initiative for all Queensland-based trainers who qualify.

Aquis CEO Shane McGrath said the company was supporting the initiative to assist Queensland trainers, breeders, owners and jockeys through the planned strike action.

"We're pleased to be able to partner with Racing NSW and provide this support which we hope will be taken up by Queensland participants racing for the excellent prizemoney in Sydney," he said.

"We appreciate these are difficult times for everyone in the Queensland industry and want to do our bit to ensure people in the industry can continue to earn a living while the situation is being resolved."

"By guaranteeing some prizemoney for all Queensland runners we hope to give local trainers and owners the confidence to head and south and know that they will be coming home with something."

The new incentive means horses finishing 7^th to 10^thwill receive the standard $3,500 in unplaced prizemoney for Saturday meetings and $1,500 for Friday nights. Runners placed 11^th and beyond will receive $1,000, with Queensland registered runners being provided by Aquis.

Nominations for both meetings have also been extended by one hour and close at 12 noon (Sydney time) on Monday 22 October 2018.

These payments are in addition to travel rebates for Friday night/Saturday metropolitan racing announced by the Australian Turf Club.

Can't see the adversity to trainers, Trackvwork riders vets associated with the training of the horses. The pain comes with innocent people who work at the meetings catering staff,transport companys , supply chains, barrier attendants etc    most of those will not see a cent in the actions outcome .I hope when an outcome is forthcoming they will be compensated by those who gain an advantage. Opens up a legal nightmare.
Personally as a tradie and someone who has been involved in strike action before our industry leaders could of inflected pain in a way with less innocent casualties occurring, let's hope Saturday and Tuesday go ahead and on outcome is reached beforehand.

Great work by Cameron Partington and almost 100% support for the boycott. Need the press to jump all over it now.

I don’t think Cherrie Lindgren will be too popular.

Batman wrote: goldey wrote: Can't see the adversity to trainers, Trackvwork riders vets associated with the training of the horses. The pain comes with innocent people who work at the meetings catering staff,transport companys , supply chains, barrier attendants etc    most of those will not see a cent in the actions outcome .I hope when an outcome is forthcoming they will be compensated by those who gain an advantage. Opens up a legal nightmare. Personally as a tradie and someone who has been involved in strike action before our industry leaders could of inflected pain in a way with less innocent casualties occurring, let's hope Saturday and Tuesday go ahead and on outcome is reached beforehand. These innocents need to support the industry they make wages from. The government need to hear their pain. It will be worse if the whole industry fails

They do by by what they do. Their income will not increase on higher prize money garanteed.But will evaporate this weekend.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-24/cox-plate-day-races-in-queensland-called-off-melbourne-cup-next/10422196

Cox Plate Day races called off, Melbourne Cup events next to go as Queensland racing industry stoush heats up

Get the barrier attendants to strike on Magic Millions day, so Gerry can rip the Queensland government a new one.

Batman wrote: Bonjour and Linghi. Both of you suggestions are great ideas. We will all need to campaign against these people at the next state elections. And action aimed at MM will definately get the government to get their act together.

Well from the average punters perspective it doesn't really matter how the new loot is split - they are going to be paying the lot regardless. Why should punters get gouged more ? No one really believes that this new tax on Corporates wont just be passed on to the customers (punters) do they ? Every big business passes on any cost - the Corporates will be no different. Expect sharper pricing & a more focused/less generous promotional offers going forward. The other issue is the racing industry is a bottomless pit - did Queensland get the benefit from the race fields legislation a few years back ? What happened to that cash? I'm betting in my lifetime I never hear a state racing body ever say they have enough funding. Lots of industries out there suffering.

That’s our government for you - addicted to tax even though they don’t spend wisely what they already have