Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A couple of weeks ago in Townsville the Chief Steward of North Queensland racing Darryl Griffiths gave apprentice the apprentice jockey Isabella Teh (pictured at top) a 26 day suspension for causing interference in race 4 at Cluden Park on the 19th of May, a race in which jockeys Quilty and Les Tilley fell. The […]
If you stayed up late last night watching the trots you would have seen a very, very promising pacer – possibly even a rising star of the west – win the last race at Gloucester Park. Blackrock is the horse’s name, and gee it looked impressive going to the line under its own steam to […]
As you can see in our story republished below, in July last year jockey Isabella Teh was hit with a 26 day suspensionafter being found guilty of causing interference in a race at Townsville that resulted in rider K.Quilty suffering a fall. Teh lodged an appeal but it never got heard, for after realising that […]
QLD Labor MP for Pine Rivers Nikki Boyd is a hard worker and a pleasant person. I should know, I used to be her boss. But the former childcare worker and union official turned crew member on a sinking ship is kidding herself if she thinks the $1000 electricity credit/election bribe for QLD households is […]
Watch this race and ask yourself if you would have upheld a protest 2nd v 1st on the grounds of interference down the straight. YES or NO? If you said YES then you join a small but elite group of experts headed by HRV Stewards on the panel at Terang on Monday who agreed with […]
Justice John Bowman on the Victorian Racing Tribunal’s penalty decision in the Darren Weir case is to be handed down on Friday morning. Just for a lark we though we’d frame a few markets on what sentence Weir gets. ALL IN BETTING $3.00 NO PENALTY In this scenario Weir gets no penalty over and above […]
Our track spies at Eagle Farm are telling us that the current track rating of Soft 6 for Wednesday’s meeting will turn to Heavy before the race day begins. They reckon that the track is rooted, and that it wouldn’t take much for the meeting to be called off. What they want to know is […]
Under the Queensland Local Rules of Racing a horse competing at a metropolitan race meeting (other than in a Group race or race 1) must be on course at least 2 hours before the advertised starting time of its race. From an integrity perspective adherence to the arrival time is extremely important, for horses that […]
Trainer Nick Walsh has been found blameless for the incident in which he scratched two of his three runners from a recent race at Rockampton. The betting sheets showed nothing untoward. Nothing to see. Cased closed.
This is the temporary training track for use by trainers at Globe Derby while the main track is being reconstructed. Its been built by dumping two truckloads of shell grit on top of the existing car park, and spreading it approximately two horses wide around a circumference of about 200m to create what must be […]
