Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This Steward’s report from race 5 at the Sunshine Coast last Sunday is shite. Dan McGillvray didn’t just make contact with rival rider Jasper Franklin, he quite deliberately elbowed him in the head. It wasn’t careless riding, it was foul. Highly dangerous too. So was Franklin’s reprisal when he gave McGillivray the Malachi Crunch to […]
This is what the Victorian Racing Integrity Commissioner reported in relation to his investigation into the conduct of the HRV CEO in relation to allegations about certain matters. We accept the Commissioner’s findings into the CEO’ s conduct, and do not dispute them, But we very sternly question the Commissioner’s finings as to the broader […]
Fresh off the back of the Dale “Handbrake” Evans at Mackay and Jackson Murphy running and handling inquiries, we get two in one day at headquarters yesterday. First the chief Geoff ‘Gus’ Goold and his bad of merry stewarding men adjourned an inquiry into the $1.28 fav in a maiden plate over 2040m ridden by […]
https://paulickreport.com/features/keeping-pace/keeping-pace-state-of-horse-racings-social-contract It’s good to be back. It’s been more than a decade since I last wrote a regular column about horse racing. I am eager to write again now because I think the sport has reached a hinge in its history. Either horse racing changes, adapts, and reforms many of its policies and practices or […]
A lot of people are asking serious questi0ns about Blake Shinn’s ride on Propice in the 7th race at Seymour on Wednesday, the Victorian Stewards included. They have opened and then adjourned an inquiry into the ride, to give them time to review the betting sheets. That makes sense. Shinn’s ride doesn’t. Propice is trained […]
Everyone’s favourite unlicensed syndicator Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald has been selling shares in ‘his’ number 1 girl Queen of Swords for more than a year now, since she was a wee yearling in fact. There is just one problem. The Canary doesn’t own her, the Jordash Trust run by the Aussie dodger Harvey Kaplan does. […]
Queensland Racing Integrity Commission Stewards today conducted an inquiry into the circumstances of Classie Washington NZ being nebulised within one clear day of racing at the stables of Daren Garrard on 17 November 2023. QRIC Stewards interviewed Mr Garrard and stable employee Ms Catherine Baines on 17 November and Classie Washington NZ was subsequently scratched […]
How bad is this? The judges assistant at the Reefton Cup meeting was on the punt while on duty. People at the meeting saw him at the tote window in full view of everyone there putting bets on. Presumably one of them tipped off the Stewards, and good on them too. Imagine what might have […]
New Zealand has this whizz bang racing integrity system under which race day stewards no longer charge trainers and riders and hit them with a fine or suspension on the spot after they breach the rules. Instead the stewards lay a charge against a licensee, and a panel of ‘independent’ adjudicators who are paid thousands of […]
If Jackson Murphy didn’t ride Moreton Bay stone cold dead in the 2nd race on the TAB card at Home Hill on Thursday then I’m not here. It was a hook job of epic Dale Evans proportions. Moreton Bay blew from $2.35 out to $4.00, and wasn’t trying at all. Murphy put the handbrake on […]
