Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Why the hell do people insist on saying this sort of stuff on their professional profiles? Wouldn’t it just be assumed that a bloke who is married is a good family man who loves his wife and kids? After all, that is the whole point of being married and being a father isn’t it? What’s […]
In a story earlier this week we made an assertion that North QLD Steward Darryl Griffiths formerly part-owned a Fortitude Valley strip club. This assertion was absolutely incorrect. We confused Mr Griffiths with a former Steward who did in fact own such a club. The story was wrong in that respect, and has been amended. […]
Remember that trotter Lain that we wrote about yesterday? The one who wasn’t qualified to race, and had to be scratched from the last race at Albion Park tonight? Well he might not be racing but Lain will be at the track anyway. He is a late inclusion into a trial, where he will attempt […]
Leap To Fame’s popular owner Kevin Seymour AM has made number 220 on the Australian rich list announced today in the national newspaper. He still hasn’t cracked the billion though which is disappointing. Still and all you couldn’t be unhappy with $849 million and the greatest champion in Australian harness racing history, could you? Some […]
Racing Queensland are geniuses aren’t they? A category 5 Cyclone has been predicted all week to hit Far North QLD today, accompanied by torrential rainfall of up to 200mm or more. There was never going to be any hope of racing at Cannon Park in Cairns tomorrow, yet it took RQ until this morning to […]
Cody Cole Despite the prominent trainer having been convicted in January of failing to attend the testing van to provide a urine/blood sample when directed to do so by Stewards, there has still been no penalty decision in the Cody Cole case. In the interim period Cole has increased the size of his team of […]
We have a great weekend of racing ahead of across two States. The good doctor hopes to have found us a brace of winners in Melbourne. Just as added bonus she has thrown in two in Sydney as well. Race 6 no 1 OBSERVER Race 9 no 10 BRIDAL WALTZ Here is the Melbourne mail […]
Further to our earlier story about the appointment of Roddy Butt as an NZRIB harness racing steward, we are advised that measures have been put in place to ensure that the conflicts we envisaged in the story will not occur. Butt is presently undergoing 3 months training in the South Island, and after that is […]
We all make mistakes – I’m the master of it – but the mark of a person or organization is putting your hand up when you do and accepting responsibility, and then correcting your error. As I said in the original story about the issue I am not sure if the QRIC bore any responsibility […]
See the Steward R. Butt? That’s Roddy Butt. Brother to Anthony, who is now a driver in the Canterbury area, and Chrissie Dalgety, who is a trainer in partnership with Cran Dalgety and mother of gun driver Carter. Roddy Butt is related to all the Butts – Chris, David, Kimberley, Bob and more – and […]
