Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well lookie, lookie here. Message from the Creek last night. Call us Mr Octopus, tentacles all over the place. I wonder if Scottie Steele has a security license? Or why he wanted the guards to stay away from the Creek Bar? Join the dots. Oh dear. I don’t know why Luttsy’s name was mentioned. Perhaps […]
How strange it is that David Fowler takes his annual leave in the middle of winter, on the exact same day that the close friend that he appointed to the top job at Albion Park was about to be exposed as an alleged rapist. David claims that he did not know that Scott Steele was […]
It’s like we have written the script isn’t it? Funny that. Just wait until you see what comes out in the plea deal. There are some questions that keep playing on my mind. Has Scott Steele been protected for so long just because of brotherly love? What about before that? How did he get to […]
Queensland’s Racing Minister is backing a decision to withhold hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from a leading Brisbane race club after it refused to stand down its CEO, who has been accused of rape. Scott Steele, the chief executive of the Albion Park Harness Racing Club (APHRC), was last month committed to stand […]
This feature story produced by Racing Queensland about International Women’s Day and republished by the Albion Park CEO Scott Steele on the club’s website appeared six months after he – Steele – had been arrested and bailed on charges of rape. The Chairman of the Clun knew, because it was his brother. Racing Queensland knew, […]
6.5 ENFORCEMENT Where any entity or person is knowingly in breach of this Policy, RQ may take the following actions available to it under the Act, the Rules of Racing or RQ’s other legal rights: If the person or entity in breach is a Licensed Club: Issue a control body direction under s.82(3) of the […]
1. BACKGROUND This Policy is made under s.102(1)(b) of the Racing Act 2002 (Qld) (“the Act”), which authorises the Racing Queensland Board (“RQ”), as the control body for all codes of racing in Queensland, to make policies for good management. 2. POLICY NAME This policy is named the No Fault Stand Down Policy (“Policy”) and […]
And so it ended. Not with a bang, but a gentle collapse, in the way burning campfire logs eventually fall in on themselves before being reduced to ash. Matthew Condon, award winning writer, reporting on the last day of The Teacher’s Pet Trial So it went, until close to midday when David, after four days […]
Matthew Peden is employed by the New Zealand TAB as it’s Manager of Risk. In this capacity Peden is responsible for the setting and movement of NZ TAB betting markets, and holds ultimate responsibility for the acceptance or rejection of wagers that are placed to win more than the maximum prescribed betting limits. In effect, […]
Errata means error. The Crown Prosecutor themselves raised the issue with the Judge as to what to about them. It was agreed that minor errors – spelling errors, etc like the example that the prosecutor gave below – would be simply corrected. CROWN PROSECUTOR: Sometimes when ‑ I’ve already failed at least once to not […]
