Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The final Term of Reference (ToR 7) provides opportunity to advise on other matters relevant to horse welfare, team driving and race fixing. On the basis of relevancy, this review believes that fierce competition on the racetrack is the industry’s best safeguard against team driving and race fixing. Therefore this review would be remiss not […]
Conflict of interest with a race starter A matter that was the subject of media reports and review submissions was that of a race starter, employed by Tasracing, who officiated at harness race meetings under ORI control whilst also a paid employee of a leading trainer (employed to drive the trainer’s horse transport to race […]
ToR 4 requires a review of the adequacy of ORI’s management of allegations relating to team driving that were reported by a part-time steward (brave and honest whistleblower Janet Ainscow, who was persecuted by her bosses for doing her job by reporting the allegations). (Ainscow), employed with ORI, had a conversation with a harness driver […]
Race day practices It has been submitted that Yole stable horses, on race days, can be required to stand on horse floats and/or be tied up for an extended period of time of up to 16 hours. For example, for a Hobart race meeting, it has been submitted that horses are often loaded at around […]
With all the hoopla and hype about Moody Racing’s $1.6 million purchase of the top lot this week from the Karaka yearling sales, we thought it an opportune time to look back at the top priced lots from the previous 5 years and see where they are now and where they’ve been. Sadly the news […]
Start times as “welfare” under heat policies are all “show” anyway. Unless the venue has all its horses stabled on course then instead of spending a period of minutes on track in the hottest part of the day the horses are then spending much longer, in some cases hours, in the hottest part of the […]
We wrote recently about how veteran NSW trainer David Waite has suddenly found a golden vein of success after taking over the reins of disqualified drug cheating trainer Leon Jurd, but whatever his new found secret of success is, Waite’s hot run is not contained to Jurd’s former horses, for all of a sudden he […]
Dear Archie, On Tuesday morning prior to acceptances, one of QRIC’s ring leaders Joshua Adams was on RadioTAB declaring that the Townsville meeting on Thursday would be a late start and races run at thirty minute intervals due to the extreme heat expected on the day under the guise of animal and participant welfare. That […]
Archie, Seems the hard working folk at Club QRIC are clearing the backlog of “adjourned” inquiries. Jayden Lloyd was from 28 December 2022. Over 12 months to get to inquiry. Why would it take that long? Next up….Chip Collis from Warwick on Tuesday 18 April 2023. Lloyd involved here too. Collis allegedly had a winning […]
There is widespread school of thought that says that Catch A Wave can’t stay, and thus won’t get the 2760m of the Hunter Cup, but at the risk of ending up with egg all over my face I have to say that I vehemently disagree. Wave has only had three starts over distances longer than […]
