Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie. You’re spot on regarding the skill gap of QRIC Stewards and it does reach right to the top. Your recent articles on Jockey Isabella Teh being charged some 12 months after the incident and having that charged reviewed and withdrawn by Chief Steward Josh Adams led to Adams directing that Jockey Jason Taylor be […]
On Wednesday we published a story bemoaning the state of the Cluden Park track. This story was based on a Stewards report that had been sent to us, which now we have had the matter drawn to our attention we realise was doctored. We have been suckered in, but the error was ours for not […]
Deep Tempest is a smart David Van Dyke trained galloper with a record of 4 wins from its 11 starts. He certainly wasn’t the horse that racecaller David Fowler called looming up to win race 1 the Maiden at Eagle Farm this afternoon. That was Deep Vega, as the Rooster finally woke up and realised […]
Our Brisbane correspondent sent us this report of the J. Taylor appeal hearing today …. Introductions. Piece of paper handed to chairman. Chairman sets aside stewards decision and replaced with a Not Guilty verdict. Before a word of evidence is even heard. Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys. J Murdoch KC wins by first-round […]
A couple of weeks ago in Townsville the Chief Steward of North Queensland racing Darryl Griffiths gave apprentice the apprentice jockey Isabella Teh (pictured at top) a 26 day suspension for causing interference in race 4 at Cluden Park on the 19th of May, a race in which jockeys Quilty and Les Tilley fell. The […]
If you stayed up late last night watching the trots you would have seen a very, very promising pacer – possibly even a rising star of the west – win the last race at Gloucester Park. Blackrock is the horse’s name, and gee it looked impressive going to the line under its own steam to […]
As you can see in our story republished below, in July last year jockey Isabella Teh was hit with a 26 day suspensionafter being found guilty of causing interference in a race at Townsville that resulted in rider K.Quilty suffering a fall. Teh lodged an appeal but it never got heard, for after realising that […]
QLD Labor MP for Pine Rivers Nikki Boyd is a hard worker and a pleasant person. I should know, I used to be her boss. But the former childcare worker and union official turned crew member on a sinking ship is kidding herself if she thinks the $1000 electricity credit/election bribe for QLD households is […]
Watch this race and ask yourself if you would have upheld a protest 2nd v 1st on the grounds of interference down the straight. YES or NO? If you said YES then you join a small but elite group of experts headed by HRV Stewards on the panel at Terang on Monday who agreed with […]
Justice John Bowman on the Victorian Racing Tribunal’s penalty decision in the Darren Weir case is to be handed down on Friday morning. Just for a lark we though we’d frame a few markets on what sentence Weir gets. ALL IN BETTING $3.00 NO PENALTY In this scenario Weir gets no penalty over and above […]
