Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We all know about Ben Currie and why he got disqualified. His stable staff administered boost paste – a totally legal sold over the counter at Garrards Horse and Hound amino acid tonic, with huge therapeutic and health benefits – to a horse named Eight Over on the morning of a race, which was in […]
On the 1st of July last year the then QRIC Commissioner Ross Barnett, under concerted pressure from outspoken trainers with dubious pasts like Robert Heathcote, introduced a new policy in Queensland racing whereby the names of any horse of either code who recorded a TCO2 level of over 35 but under 36 in a swab […]
The word from the track is that controversial jockey Luke Tarrant’s appearance in the Toowoomba court yesterday resulted from him blowing a positive to drugs in a random roadside test after the Weetwood. They say the police searched his car after he blew plus, and found a quantity of drugs inside. It is a sad, […]
Isn’t it good to see that Ben Currie seems to have matured, realised the mistakes of his past and put his hand up to them, and actively taken the right steps to make sure that they don’t happen again? The interview he did with Ben Dorries of Racenet yesterday showed us a new side of […]
There were some very interesting names that appeared on the law list for the Magistrates Court in Toowoomba yesterday. Each of them are jockeys or former jockeys. Nick Keal. Paul Randell. Luke Tarrant. Tarrant? Hasn’t he been in enough trouble already? We don’t know why these chaps were in court, but post-Weetwood celebrations gone overboard […]
Once upon a time winning a Group 1 race was the biggest thing a trot person could ever do. Hunter Cup, Victoria Cup, Miracle Mile, Derby, Sunshine Sprint, the Clive Uhr, Oaks, Inter Dominion, NZ Trotting Cup. These races were Group 1’s, and they were the Holy Grail. That was back when the trots were […]
I’m starting to wonder if Harness Racing NSW should just save everyone the trouble of getting dressed and gearing up their horses, and just hand the $16 200 winner’s cheque for the regular Saturday night faux Group 3 race to Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson at the start of the evening so we can all just get […]
See that horse with the current and former QLD Racing Ministers? It’s dead. It died in agony. At this stage no-one really knows why, but most of the possible explanations are not good. There is some strange talk floating around the tracks of Queensland’s central west at the moment, real strange indeed. It concerns this […]
During the week we wrote about the galloping Queensland trotter Doug, and told you why he should be banned from competing in standing start races. In the same article we predicted that Doug would gallop again on Saturday night at Albion Park. He did. We will ask the same question that we did mid-week. How […]
155A. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Rules 154 and 155 any horse which has broken gait free of interference, and remains in the incorrect gait when its nose reaches the finish line, and is covered by any other horse or horses in the correct gait it shall be placed behind such horse or horses. (2) For the purposes […]
