UP NORTH

Well-travelled Canberra sprinter Voice Commander is back in Brisbane. Trainer Nick Olive is eyeing off today's $200,000 Lough Neagh Stakes at Doomben. Voice Commander made light of 59.5 kilograms to win an open first-up on his home track. Senior jockey Tye Angland reunites with the sprinter, having won the Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba in July on the gelding. "He puts himself there and never gives up," Angland said this week. "He is a horse that tries real hard. You'd like to be on one like him every time you went out."

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Thursday, January 15 - Critic's View

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Trigger Fires For Wizards

CAM Tragardh was well and truly "in the zone" playing for Northside Wizards in a recent Queensland Australian Basketball League win over Toowoomba.

The Passport To Misery

The plot might have been devised by Kafka, or by Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22. Eighteen Chinese Mongolians face deportation, and financial disaster, because their Queensland employer has been found in breach of the conditions of the 457 visa scheme for skilled workers under which they were brought to this country. The far from draconian penalty imposed by the Immigration Department on the firm, N.K. Collins, of Toowoomba, is a ban on its using the 457 scheme for three years. The implications ...

Lightning Ready To Strike, Says Williams

JOCKEY Craig Williams is not conceding Saturday's first group 1 race of the season, the Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley, to the likes of Toowoomba tornado Gold Edition and unbeaten sprinter Here De Angels.

Katsidis Handed Gold Ride

STATHI Katsidis has emerged as the new rider for Toowoomba mare Gold Edition in Saturday's group 1 Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley.

Gold Edition Looking The Goods For Southern Campaign

TOOWOOMBA tornado Gold Edition will be off to Melbourne to take the early part of the spring carnival by storm following a conditioning barrier trial at Rosehill this morning.

Fickle Fortune

TOOWOOMBA trainer Ron Maund was shattered in the immediate aftermath of Gold Edition's defeat in the Winter Stakes.

Edition To Make Best Of Burden

THE task confronting Gold Edition in Saturday's $1 million Stradbroke Handicap isn't lost on trainer Ron Maund, but the Toowoomba horseman warns the freakish filly is on the improve.

Precise Timing Has Another Cup In Sight

FROM Launceston to Toowoomba, Precise Timing has won cups everywhere and his trainer Ross Stitt is hoping it will be third time lucky in the Listed Emirates Park Scone Cup (1600m) this afternoon.

Flying Gold Edition Set To Take On World

OWNER Kevin O'Brien will consider an overseas campaign for Toowoomba sprint sensation Gold Edition.

One Last Sydney Fling For Gold Edition

TOOWOOMBA tornado Gold Edition has taken no harm from her second to boom colt Mutawaajid, with trainer Ron Maund yesterday surprising by declaring her a starter in Saturday's Surround Stakes at Warwick Farm.

Gold Edition Proves Too Hot For Publishing In Trophy

TOOWOOMBA tornado Gold Edition added another chapter to her spectacular career by trouncing rivals in the $1 million Magic Millions Trophy for three-year-olds yesterday.

Gold Edition Too Hot For Publishing

TOOWOOMBA tornado Gold Edition added another chapter to her already spectacular career by trouncing her rivals in the $1 million Magic Millions Trophy for three-year-olds yesterday.

Fleet Gold Edition Lives Up To Hype Of Early-morning Gallop

TOOWOOMBA tornado Gold Edition turned heads at Flemington earlier this week with a spectacular straight track trial and yesterday was even better when making the group 1 Ascot Vale Stakes a one-horse race.

Will Powers To Pole Position

TOOWOOMBA driver Will Power's weekend got better yesterday when he claimed the first pole position of his Champ Car career and the first for his Queensland-backed Team Australia for today's Lexmark 300.

Hooker's Fine Game In Decider

IF an NRL club is looking for a hooker - besides the Dragons' multi-skilled Aaron Gorrell - they need go no further than Redcliffe Dolphins' Michael Roberts who can do everything a player in his position is required to do. Roberts turned on a premiership-winning performance as the Dolphins overturned a 56-22 flogging in the Queensland Cup major semi-final by Toowoomba to upset the Brisbane Broncos' feeder club 27-6 in the grand final at Suncorp Stadium. A quick mention of ABC's delayed coverage. ...

Katsidis Cops Another Blow On Title Trail

MICHAEL Katsidis travelled from Toowoomba to Thailand to make sure he was at his peak for his world title eliminator - but now that trip has put his plans at risk.

Unlikely Duo Making The Most Of Their Golden Run

FOR the past eight or nine years, jockey Glenn Lynch has been a Christmas guest at the Toowoomba home of trainer Ron Maund - but don't expect to see them breaking bread when they come to the big smoke this weekend.