Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
How about this one then? Jockey Simon Marshall believes that he has cause to lodge a protest against his mount Tristanagh’s stablemate Malibu Magic, who had been backed for a fortune, in the 1989 Magic Millions. Marshall seeks direction from both horse’s legendary trainer J.B. Cummings. Bart decides that it would be bad for business […]
Stewards report, Race 1 at Miles on 10 Feb 2024 You can read as well as I can. The start of race 1 at Miles was delayed because the start had to be conducted by the assistant starter due to a lack of barrier staff. At least that’s what the starter Mr D. Kerwick told […]
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What you are watching is race 3 at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, and the interference that Kyle Wilson-Taylor on the eventual winner, the horse in red, caused to the runner-up in the red and black ridden by Jai Williams. The incident resulted in Williams firing in the protest you see at the top that was […]
