Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The news this week is that the Spring Champion Stakes winner Profondo – the $1.9 million yearling sold at the Magic Millions Sale, the colt they called a champion – has had his Autumn carnival campaign aborted, and is being away for the Spring. If you believe that, you believe in fairies. Profondo will never […]
We don’t keep writing about QLD racing steward’s stuff-ups because we are mean girls. We write about them because they keep happening. How does this one work? The QRIC have altered the result of a race six weeks after it happened. After all the bets have been incorrectly paid, and the punters have been ripped […]
A reader sent this to us in response to our story about Nathan Day being handed down a 9-month disqualification for reasons unknown It’s checked and correct. —————————————————————————- N Day provided money to Wally Welburn (clerk of the scales) and Trent Williams (racecourse manager) for unknown reasons, but noting that Wally has been well known […]
Honest Ben Hope has been suspended four times for careless driving in the past 8 weeks. The message clearly isn’t getting through. There’s a reason for that. It’s because the RIB aren’t sending it. Hope’s first two punishments were three day suspensions. Then the RIB decided it needed to get tough and gave him four […]
As you can see there was a massive crowd today at Chinchilla. These Monday meetings in the bush are a great idea from a public spectacle point of view aren’t they? I will tell you what though, they go good from a turnover perspective when there is nothing else on. Each race is holding about […]
No Grubby, you’re a bit light. It’s nine not two. Word is filtering in that FIFO jockey Nathan Day, who lives in SEQ but rides predominantly in Central and North QLD, has been disqualified for 9 months. No-one seems to know why. The case is yet to be published on the QRIC website so we […]
Something weird is happening. Trainer Scott Dickson brings his horse to race in the Taranaki Cup with TCO2 levels well above the threshold, that clearly suggest that it has been tubed, which means given a drench with bicarbonate of soda, aka a milkshake. The horse – El Dorado by name – looms up to win […]
As for the Oaks, Purdon suggests True Fantasy, who has been struggling with the same dust issues as Spankem, will definitely be in the classic next Friday. Call me stupid many do – but I am confused. How is it that only two pacers in the whole of New Zealand – Spankem and True Fantasy […]
Jeffrey Felix is at 49 years of age one of the oldest jockeys going around the QLD country racing circuit. It hasn’t slowed him down. There were six races at Cloncurry on Saturday. Jeff rode 5 winners and a second. It is the best performance of any jockey in Australia so far this year. Wow. […]
Last month Harness Racing NSW endorsed some rule changes made by Harness Racing Australia, and gave them the force of law. We have given some of the new rules nicknames. Here they are. The Josh Gallagher Rule Disqualification Add new Rule 66(i) 66. A horse may be disqualified from a race or placed in a […]
