Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
WA harness driver Kyle Simington copped an 8 day suspension at the Gloucester Park meeting last Friday week (12 April) for careless driving causing severe interference to a rival runner that ruined that horse’s chances of winning or placing in the race. It was a fair cop and Symington pleaded guilty to it, but he […]
There has been a most unusual rash of photo finish cameras failing at country QLD race meetings recently, so many that it appears to be fast becoming an epidemic. In the past 10 days alone the cameras have failed to work during finished at the meetings at Maxwellton Blackall Bowen Dalby Why is this happening? […]
The South Australian Racing Appeals Tribunal has overturned Todd Balfour’s 5-year disqualification for pulling down the pants of a Steward and exposing him naked from the waist down, and replaced it with a 4.5 month DQ, which includes time already served. The Tribunal characterised Balfour’s actions as an assault, describing what he did as inappropriate […]
Angus Garrard was handed a 7-day suspension for knocking a rival’s horse arse over tit at Albion Park last night, in breach of the rules. Garrard has 6 engagements to drive at Albion Park tonight, many of them horses well backed in the early betting markets. The punters who backed them did so in reliance […]
The rumor mill is abuzz that a senior racing integrity official at the RIB is about to receive a golden handshake and a parachute with a soft fall out of the organisation. The RIB official, a female, is said to have provided a sworn statement in a recent racing appeal that was not quite correct, […]
On behalf of the Board I am pleased to advise the appointment of Dr Eliot Forbes to the position of Chief Executive of the Racing Integrity Board. Eliot, a qualified veterinarian, is an accomplished racing executive with over 25 years of racing administration and wagering experience across Australia, Asia and the Middle East. He previously […]
Eliot Forbes – aka ET, our favorite former Racing QLD CEO and camel vet to the murderous Dubai Sheik – has been appointed to the role of CEO of the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board, replacing the failed former copper Mike Clement, who in the best traditions of integrity driven leadership has resigned from his […]
Take a look here at the 4th horse back on the fence, Quiet Storm. You can’t quite entirely see it from the side-on view but the driver of the horrse Xavier O’Connor breaks the rules by taking it inside 7 marker pegs up the straight to run into 3rd place on the line. Marker pegs […]
Brendan Barnes drove the $1.70 favorite Promising in the 4th race at Albion Park on Saturday night. Drove it like a lunatic straight to destruction. Barnes took Promising straight to the death off the gate, but at no stage did he have a dig for the lead. The lead time was run in a flying […]
It has been pointed out to me that half of the Racing NSW Stewards Panel officiating at the Championships meeting at Royal Randwick yesterday are Queenslanders, each of whom could very well be working here for the QRIC if only it wasn’t such a dysfunctional beast of an outfit. Steve Railton used to be the […]
