Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Can anyone in the world explain why a lowly Saturday night meeting at Toowoomba required six Stewards to officiate at it, when the main meeting of the weekend at Eagle Farm only needed four? An even better question is why six stewards could only oversee the pre-race swabbing of three runners on the card? Is […]
Victorian greyhound trainer Deborah Coleman was at one stage for many years a racing Steward at the dogs in NSW before she jumped the fence to pick up a collar and lead by joining the other side. It seems that the ex-stipe hasn’t quite realised that she’s no longer in charge of meetings any more, […]
How in a million years did Dee Roe, the horse behind the leader on the rail, not get disqualified from its 2nd place in the $50000 Simpson Sprint on Saturday night? It’s Aaron Dunn cheated. He drove Dee Roe inside the marker line for at least 100m, steering a path inside or over the pegs […]
If last night’s Albion Park stewarding is any indication, the current disenchantment-driven malaise in the QLD racing integrity ranks appears to be a virus that has spread like a web across all three codes. As at the gallops and greyhounds, far too few pre-race samples were taken from horses running at the meeting on which […]
Just take a look at this start of the 6th race at Albany in WA on Friday night will you? The horse named Hope in the purple and yellow colors wheels around and breaks through the tape, but instead of calling it a false start which it is, the starter lets them go. As a […]
Why on earth would the Stewards agree to John Dunn’s request to adjourn their inquiry into interference that he caused to another horse and driver by the careless way that he drove McKendrick? There were no ifs or buts about this one. Dunn clearly came across and took the other horse’s running to his own […]
Archie, We know the story so far. That is Dale Evans was dead as a maggot on Nic Some More at Mackay in Dec 2023. Super Steward Tate Hudson and Cadet Suli charged him with failing to take all reasonable measures on the horse, found him guilty and suspended him for 4 months. The next […]
QRIC Chief Steward Josh Adams can hardly claim impartiality when he regularly chairs panels with his brother-in-law William Wain. Wain, who commenced working for QRIC in July last year, was employed as a CAT Steward, whose prime responsibility is conducting compliance inspections in stables on and around race-day. So, the question is why are the […]
The Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board has today denied Ben and Tim Yole and Nathan and Mitch Ford a stay of proceedings on the interim warning offs issued to the quartet in the wake of the release of the Murrihy Report. This means that none of the four will be able to train and drive unless […]
Our story about the protest at Tumut that was lodged and upheld at the weekend has attracted a great deal of discussion, so we thought we’d do a bit of digging and find out how often such a thing happens at the races. The answer is very rarely, with the one from 1993 at Sandown […]
