Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie I did notice that the panel were into Murdoch early. Didn’t hear the QRIC KC in reply. Chairman O’Brien seems to always be critical of stewards and the charges (rightfully so). I think the charge sticks. Not sure how penalty plays out. RAP sort of brought suspended penalties undone with their handling of the […]
Winners are grinners – but did Jim get the bob? The worm appears to have turned. Murdoch KC might just have pulled this one out from the flames. The QRIC bloke has made his sentencing submissions, and of course he says that the Stewards were right. Nothing but a disqualification will do, he says. It’s […]
Where there’s life there’s hope, my mate Matt always says. Perhaps he is right, for Panel Chair his honor O’Brien comes out and criticizes the way that the QRIC has particularized the charge. He basically says that a collection of facts thrown together doesn’t by prove a person’s guilt. You have to show how Smith’s […]
Murdoch rests his case. It shouldn’t have been too heavy, ‘cos it didn’t contain much. The QRIC’s counsel – I didn’t catch his name – begins his submissions in reply. This is going to be interesting. He is not intimidated by Murdoch like so many others are, and is standing up to him like Holyfield […]
For once in his life the Magic Man looks to be struggling. You can’t criticise him for it. It’s bloody hard to spin a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Murdoch KC is trying though. Now he’s arguing that the assault on the horse wasn’t improper, because the Rockhampton Jockey Club trackwork supervisor didn’t […]
I am quickly starting to think that Murdoch KC knows that he is on a loser here, and is clutching at straws. First he attempts to define improper by reference to case involving Dean Watts and his company Dynamic Syndications. I know that case. It involved Watt – who runs Dynamic Syndications – being found […]
We are live here at the Racing Appeals Panel where trainer Tom Smith’s appeal against his one month suspension for beating the crap out of an innocent horse is being heard. Smith has been smart and engaged the best in the business to represent him, the best of course being Jim Murdoch KC, aka the […]
Which of these 5 panel members voted for this? Do you remember the acts of abhorrent animal cruelty committed on an innocent horse by Central QLD trainer Tom Smith that we told you about 7 months ago (see story reprinted below)? Well dealing swiftly with offences against animal welfare clearly isn’t the QRIC’s thing, for […]
Tom Smith, the Rockhampton based trainer with the most famous name in racing but not a tenth of the ability, is said to be in a spot of Barney Rubble, and if the mail is right he deserves to be too. Smith is reported to have violently beaten an unraced 2-year-old in his care, to […]
Pikelet Spirit wasn’t a very fast dog and didn’t win many races, just 4 from 59 starts. She tried hard though, which is shown by the 12 placings that she ran during her short life. It’s over now. Pikelet Spirit is dead. Just before the little bitch’s fourth birthday the killer first turn at Ipswich […]
