Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Remember all those sedated yearlings that Dean Baring presented at the Nutrien Brisbane sale? The ones that couldn’t keep their heads up and dragged their legs all around the ring? Quite understandably seven of them didn’t sell, both because they were so bedraggled by being hit with ACE, and because they had completely unrealistic reserves […]
As we predicted Jim Murdoch KC (pictured) has weaved his magic and got Tom Smith off with a fully suspended sentence and a fine. We should become fortune tellers. Smith is caught red handed beating a horse for 33 minutes straight and he gets effectively gets off with a fine. You’d have to be kidding. […]
Harness race driver Bryse McElhinney appears before the Racing Appeals Tribunal this morning to appeal a 14 day suspension incurred at Albion Park on the 4th of April under AHR Rule 156 (2) for utilizing his whip in an unapproved manner. The 14 day suspension was issued in accordance with QRIC penalty guidelines. McElhinney represents […]
McElhinney is asked if he understands that the rule allows for the whip to be used only in a flicking motion. He says he does. Then launches into a story painting himself as a hero, saying that when you’re in a tight finish with horses coming all around you and the adrenaline is flowing you […]
The Whack says he has been hard done by. Then he unleashes, claiming that the Stewards are in effect corrupt. “It just seems t0 me in the last few months or so that a lot of people are getting done for their whips, where there are other who could be getting done and nothing is […]
It’s decision time. One guess what it’s going to be. Appeal dismissed is my tip. The Chairman speaks the decision out loud. We learn that the Whack has been suspended seven times previously for whip use in breach of the rules. He’s a damn slow learner isn’t he? Based on what he has said today […]
We’ve just flicked to the Harness Racing Australia website, and guess what the top story is? A feel good story about The Whack. https://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=69588 How’s that for irony? Our sport’s latest pin-up boy is a serial offender. A whip it, whip it real good sort of guy. It of course being a horse. Whack told […]
Welfare groups outraged after dogs die at The Q, Ipswich’s new racetrack By Judith Kerr Despite promises of safety, two dogs have died, with others injured, in trials before Queensland’s new state-of-the-art greyhound track officially opens, prompting fresh calls for tougher controls. The launch of Queensland’s new $86 million greyhound racing facility, The Q at […]
Queensland harness trainer Murray Thomas has received 2 x 6 month disqualifications to be served cumulatively (one on top of the other) after his pair of pacers Ellis Street and Lady Allegra both returned positive swabs to testosterone in two races that each competed in during the middle of last year. The testosterone in the […]
Globetrotting Queensland senior apprentice school coach Shane Scriven continues to follow the National Apprentice Series caravan around the country to support Queensland’s entrant/s in the series at Racing Queensland expence. A week or two ago Scriven was in the Northern Territory mentoring Queensland’s sole contestant in that leg of the series, yesterday the coach was […]
