Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We keep asking questions about the competence of the current batch of QLD trot Stewards, and the answers we are getting aren’t good. What happened on Friday night is yet another illustration. It was standing start trot race, with eight horses drawn off 20m. That’s okay, because they start 8 across from the stand at […]
PRINCE NASEEM NZ Shortly after the start jumped an object on the track and breaking gait for a short distance no action was taken against the Gelding in this instance due to the multiple false starts. Inclined to hang in over the concluding stages of the event when placed under pressure. There were two false starts […]
It has come to our attention that our story earlier this week about the Albion Park starters involved in the accidental ring-in affair was not quite right. The starters are stood down from duty on full pay, but not for 3 months. They are suspended from work while a disciplinary investigation process is undertaken, and […]
Archie Noticed while visiting Marburg (Monday) and AP (Tuesday) that starters John Peterson and Jason Suli are still nowhere to be seen. Two people in the mobile and on the standing start platform. One is K.Williams (long time member of the industry usually swab collector and other roles, and also steward Lisa Bahr, former driver. […]
Albion Park starters J. Petersen and J. Suli were the officials whose job it was to check the brands and identities of horses running at the Creek on the night recently that a mare was allowed to start as a gelding of a different name. Three licensees involved in the presentation of the wrong horse […]
Take a look at what went on here in the last race at Albion Park on Saturday night. If you didn’t know better, or at least believe that you do, you’d almost swear that Jack Chapple, the driver of the leader and long odds on favorite Fire And Passion, and Angus Garrard on the 2nd […]
Story by Phil Purser Please be advised that Gitana, the widow of Dan Costello, has advised that a memorial service for her late husband Dan will be held at Albion Park on Sunday 30 August at 2pm. As an aside, Gitana is meeting with me on Wednesday of this week, so that we can work […]
This above is the drive that in the QBRED Triad 2-year-old colts and geldings heat that the QRIC Stewards wanted to question Jason Grimson about, in the inquiry to which he didn’t front up. And here is the reason that they were so keen to question him. As the race name suggests, the pacers competing […]
According to the QRIC, the QLD Harness Racing Penalty Guidelines were created and introduced to provide • transparency to all stakeholders on decision-making relating to breaches of the Australian Harness Racing Rules (AHRR); and • licensed participants in the harness code of racing of the penalties they may incur for breaching the AHRR: and • […]
