A political and legal storm is brewing north of the border with Racing Queensland boss Bob Bentley intent on forging ahead with work on a dual code super track, while the sport's governing body is still in the midst of legal action to retain racing at Albion Park, reports the Sun-Herald/SMH. It says: Funding from the Queensland Government has spurred Racing Queensland into action and it has committed $40 million to a trotting track at Deagon, which would include two greyhound tracks. The Bligh G

A political and legal storm is brewing north of the border with Racing Queensland boss Bob Bentley intent on forging ahead with work on a dual code super track, while the sport's governing body is still in the midst of legal action to retain racing at Albion Park, reports the Sun-Herald/SMH.

It says: Funding from the Queensland Government has spurred Racing Queensland into action and it has committed $40 million to a trotting track at Deagon, which would include two greyhound tracks. The Bligh Government announced an extra $20 million in loan funding to that state's $110 million Racing Industry Capital Development Scheme during the week.

Seemingly standing in the way of the development is major legal action. The former board of Harness Racing Queensland has issued a Supreme Court writ against Bentley and Racing Queensland to stop the sale of Brisbane's Albion Park. Other members of the harness racing fraternity have since joined the legal action, keen to keep the sport at its spiritual home and trying to ensure harness racing retains its share of TAB distribution.

Bentley claims a majority of the sport's participants want to move to the proposed Deagon track, 25 kilometres north of Brisbane.