Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
After consultation with the Club Stewards amended the start times for Races 2 (2.20pm), 3 (2.50pm) and 4 (3.40pm) to allow sufficient time for remedial work to be carried out between Race 3 and 4 in an effort to fill in divots created by runners in earlier events. We have written about the failures of […]
How can Ben Yole accept at 9.30 am Tuesday with two horses Heartburn Bruce in race 7 and 8 Andaman Dayin at Ballarat this Friday, and then half an hour later at 10.00 accept with the same two horses in races 4 and 7 at Hobart on the same day? https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fields/race-fields/?mc=BA101123 https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fields/race-fields/?mc=EH101123 It should be […]
Some clown from Woodend Beach – my guess is Lurch or one of desperate to impress the boss disciples – fed us a false line yesterday afternoon in the obvious hope of embarrassing us and damaging our credibility. They amalgamated 2 of our least favourite people in harness racing as the lure, by telling us […]
The markets for the feature Group 1 races on NZ Cup day in 5 days time have been turned upside down after the dominant favourites for the rich feature races drew terribly at yesterday’s barrier draw. Akuta has blown from odds-on out to $2.20 after landing the horror barrier 15 on the 2nd row in […]
The first set of lights at the top of the straight in Redcliffe are clearly out. Yet still they race on. Why are the QRIC permitting this to happen when it’s clearly dangerous? The almighty turnover dollar takes precedence over driver and horse safety. So much for welfare. Like expunge – which the QRIC should […]
Hi Archie, In short the Australian Trainers Association, with support from other members of the racing alliance group ( jockeys, owners, breeders etc) met yesterday with Minister Grace Grace (pictured above) and advised her of our intention to issue a strongly worded press release stating that the industry had no confidence in the ability or […]
Hi Archie, I have very much this year to date been sitting back watching and listening to different media comments around how racing in Queensland is traveling around numerous issues. The smokes and mirrors around RQ and QRIC do your head in. Consultation processes with either RQ and QRIC with Industry are what I would […]
Not sure if this relates to your QRIC Rumble story but…. Apparently a Racing QLD representative and the QRIC Deputy Commissioner are on a charter flight to Rockhampton on Thursday to pick up Senior Steward Shane Larkins en route to flying on to Longreach, from where they will drive to outback Isisford to inspect the […]
As we read earlier, the QRIC rostered a junior Steward named Ethan Suli to chair the stewards panel at the meeting in Barcaldine on Saturday, despite having the experience Senior Steward Tate Hudson working at the meeting. It wasn’t an isolated incident. Junior steward Ethan Suli chaired yesterday’s meeting at Mackay too, while Tate Hudson […]
(In) Justice Cantor, the judge who let a wife killer off with a good behaviour bond, because she nagged him and drove him to do it. (with then PM Gough Whitlam and Governor-General John Kerr) It is scarcely believable that not all that long ago in Australia supposedly eminent judges would allow men to strangle […]
