Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
One freezing cold morning in July of the year 2021 the Sherlock Holmes department of the RIB decided to conduct a covert operation in Kumeu, as part of CEO Mike Clement’s strategy to make harness racing great again by waging a war on turmeric and pepper. Most idiotic adventures start fr0m what seems a good […]
Betterzipit’s New Zealand racing record. It’s not that flash is it? On Saturday night Betterzipit, a former reasonably well performed but far from top class Kiwi import trained by Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson, line up against a bunch of really good pacers, including two who had run placings in separate fair-dinkum Inter Dominions (definition: ones run […]
This is the list of comparative sentences tabled in Sheryl Wigg’s appeal to the High Court against the sentence imposed on the amateur driver and trainer after an undercover surveillance team from the RIB caught her administering a paste made up of turmeric and black pepper to one of her horses on the day of […]
This is the issue that I was talking about at the end of the last story. In her application for a Hight Court judicial review of her manifestly excessive 19 month DQ for giving her horse a turmeric and black pepper paste on raceday, Sheryl Wigg argued that the panel was unlawfully convened, and as […]
The Appellant draws a distinction with the constitution of benches in the Court of Appeal, which regularly involves one permanent Court of Appeal Judge and two sitting High Court Judges. Considering the process outlined above, it is clear that there is an analogy, rather than a distinction, to be drawn between the Appeals Tribunal and […]
It’s an extract from the QRIC Penalty Sentencing Guidelines for offences proven to have been committed by errant thoroughbred racing licensees. What it’s talking about is the compatibility of the guidelines with the legal rights that a person has under the QLD Human Rights Act. The bit we are interested in is this one: The […]
See this above? It’s an extract from the Racing Integrity Amendment Act 2002, and it refers to how the Racing Appeals Panel must conduct a review hearing. Now think about this for a second. If the Appeals Panel has to be impartial, and to observe the rules of natural justice, then the logical extension of […]
The NZ High Court decision in the case of Sheryl Wigg throws up a whole lot of very interesting issues. One is the applicability of the Penalty Sentencing Guidelines (PSG) that are used by the Racing Integrity Board (RIB) to determine a rule breach offender’s punishment. The Kiwi authorities have been using PSG that were […]
In harness racing a horse has to qualify to be eligible to race. They qualify by running in trials so that the Stewards can be satisfied that they are appropriate horses to represent the sport on the public stage. Stewards come and Stewards go, and in this world we all see things slightly differently, even […]
This extract is taken from the recent NZ High Court decision in the matter of Wigg v Racing Integrity Board. The Richards referred to is Jamie Richards. Te Akau Racing’s trainer after and before Mark Walker. Richards was an excellent trainer with an unblemished record – according to the Judge – who just so happened […]
