Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Of course they were. Of course they were. Lightning did not strike the trio, for the odds of that occurring are far less than those of 3 healthy young horses dying in the space of 16 weeks from unrelated causes. We like to back the roughies here at the RIB. It was unrelated causes. “Oh […]
Objectives of Racing Integrity Board (RIB) The objectives of the Board are to promote, and ensure compliance with, high standards of animal welfare, integrity, and professionalism by participants in the racing industry for the benefit of the public, participants, and the racing industry as a whole. It’s hard to say they have achieved it, isn’t […]
In the greatest comeback since Lazarus, Darryl Griffiths was recently appointed as the QRIC Chairman of Stewards in North QLD. Perhaps it would have been better if they had appointed someone who actually knew the rules. Griffiths presided at the race meeting at Townsville on the 20th of December. He and his panel gave Nathan […]
The Forfeit List is a register of defaulters, people that owe racing money. A person whose name is entered on the Forfeit List is, under the rules of racing, subject to the same disabilities as a person who is disqualified. That means that they cannot train, ride, race horses, work in a stable or even […]
Epitrenbolone is the metabolite of Altrenogest, meaning it’s the same thing Isn’t it ironic that in the same fortnight that Alligator Al takes QRIC and Racing QLD to town and gets the Alligator’s disqualification overturned, the QRIC release it’s decision in the case of trainer Steve O’Dea for exactly the same thing, an Altrenogest positive, […]
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fields/race-fields/?mc=CR121222 Go race 3 on this program. Hit replay. Then skip forward to the 1min 52 second mark and push play. Watch the driver of the horse on the leader’s back, the one in the pink. In particular watch him in the straight. Do you reckon he tries to win or lose? If your answer […]
Well just like it was with the Birdsville jigger. we broke the story about Mitchell Hutchings absolutely disgraceful attack on an innocent horse with a hammer, and Hutchings has any problem with that then he can come and talk to us direct and we will sort it out, one way or the other. Hitting a […]
Now I am not a lag by nature, and don’t believe in dogging people at all. But when they are a pair of K. Hunts that I don’t know who go around smashing horses with hammers I reckon the rules are different, particularly when I live too far away from them to have a quiet […]
When Tosel Basil died in December 2018 racing.com – presumably relying on advice from either Ozzie Kheir or Darren Weir – reported that the horse had been spelled after a disappointing rub in the Mooney Valley Cup. That race was run on the 26th of October 2018. Yet on 30 October – four days later […]
Five minutes after we published the previous story about Ryan Wiggins ride on Silver Galaxy in the 2nd race at Doomben today, the Stewards Report went up. Wiggins got away with knocking the horse in the green over completely. WTF? The Stipes say that the horse raced greenly and ducked in of it’s own accord. […]
