Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
One of the key recommendations contained in the yet to be public released report of the review into QRIC’s operations is that responsibility for the Greyhounds Adopotion Program (GAP) should be transferred away from QRIC and over to the control of Racing Queensland. The Government is set to adopt the recommendation and make the move. […]
It was astounding to see a plunge on the failed 2o23 Melbourne Cup favorite Vauban in the Ascot Gold Cup at Royal Ascot last night. Whoever backed it from $9.oo into $6.00 is an absolute bloody idiot. You could see from last year’s Cup run that Vauban is all spick and no span, and that […]
I can understand the driver of the leader in this race Tom Ison getting a little bit preturbed at the horse behind him running up onto his helmet. Anyone would. But most people wouldn’t cock their neck and give the horse a reverse head butt like Ison did, and for very good reasons too, concern […]
The mail out of the North Island is that dual-code trainer Graeme ‘Rogie’ Rogerson, whose joint training arrangement with Dylan Ferguson ended about a month ago when Ferguson resigned, will soon set up a new training partnership with widely respected horseman James Stormont (pictured below). Stormont, who is presently working down in Christchurch at Claymore […]
Clayton Tonkin rolled another 2yo off his production line last Friday night at Shepparton that could prove to be the number 1 juvenile in his team. Always Hot was the horse’s name. It won on debut beating the high classs 3-time winner from the Aaron Dunn stable Forty Love. That wasn’t the best of it […]
The Government seems reluctant to tell you who they have appointeed as the new Acting QRIC Commissioner, so we will. His name is Malcom Letts. Mr Letts is no relation to the famous racing man of the same surname John. This Letts is a career public servant who most recently he has held the role […]
Former champion jockey Danny Nikolic will face a Melbourne court next month on charges including aggravated burglary, stalking, intentionally damaging property and theft of a motor vehicle. Nikolic, who rode Mummify to win the Caulfield Cup in 2003, was charged with two other burglary offences as part of an investigation by the Moonee Valley crime […]
The job of Stewards has become much more difficult in the modern age, for the multitude of ways that races can be rorted is so much larger than it used to be, and no longer necessarily involves winning or getting a favorite beat. The growth of head to head betting on Betfair has changed the […]
It seems a bit harsh being critical of the drive of a 16-year-old reinsperson, but when they are the youngest person ever to drive 100 winners, and sit 5th on the State premiership ladder like the wunderkind Jett Turnbull does it makes him fair game, particularly when his steer costs punter hundreds of thousands of […]
There are superbly bred blueblood thoroughbreds everywhere you look at Royal Ascot, but none have as fine a pedigree as the winner of the Kensington Palace Stakes for fillies Doha. This filly by Sea The Stars out of Treve would have been worth an astronomical sum at the yearling sales had her breeder the Emir […]
