Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The New Zealand Racing Integrity Board claims to have conducted 47 700 veterinary inspections in the past 12 months. A lot of people over the years have claimed to see the Loch Ness monster too. It doesn’t prove that either is true. How could the vets from the RIB possibly have properly conducted 917 veterinary […]
Question One Where exactly did Chris Taylor’s mount Going To The Sun stumble at the 700m mark? Question 2 Is it acceptable for a jockey to ease their mount out of the race when are they in contention as a chance, in circumstances whereby an official vet could find nothing wrong with the horse? Question […]
Senior steward on the ground in Birdsville told the inquiry they were not required to search the campsites of Austin or McMahon the morning after the image was posted on Twitter, despite having the power to do so. Rion Hitchener said former chief steward Peter Chadwick instructed him and fellow stipe Ben Cook not to […]
Last Saturday’s card at the Gold Coast was the main racing show in Queensland, the metro meeting. The races on the program carried prizemoney of between $75 000 and $150 000. Prizemoney at the Toowoomba meeting was between $21 500 and $30 000. Betting turnover on the Coast meeting was 4-5 times the amount held […]
There was a ladies 40th birthday party booked in and paid for at Clifford Park on Saturday night. The woman had booked a package that even included a race named after her, the ‘Happy Birthday XXX’ class whatever handicap. The birthday girl rocked up early to Weetwood park to set up for the big celebration […]
Here’s the rub. In any ‘normal’ race, it’s naturally expected that every combatant is there to win. That’s not so natural here. The goal, you see, is based on accumulation; point accumulation. Blazing out on night one, showing all your cards and playing all your aces may sound fun; but it’s equally likely to prove […]
Mr Adams initially studied law before following his heart into racing and taking up a cadetship in Sydney. He then moved to South Australia and was promoted to Regional Deputy Chief Steward Thoroughbreds in 2012, before arriving in Queensland in 2019 – Chris Reid, QRIC Spin Doctor in Chief Isn’t that weird? I always thought that […]
There are a lot of qualities that are required to be a top shelf Steward. Consistency is chief among them. If licensees aren’t treated equitably, and like punishments aren’t handed down for like offences, confidence in the system becomes eroded. Once that happens, integrity becomes a slippery slope, and all fall down. Cody Collis is […]
So this Central Queensland horse trainer named Ricky Gudge rocks up to the races at Mackay with a syringe and needle in his kit, and uses them to shoot his horse up with a prohibited substance just before the races. Someone dobs him in the Stewards and he gets sprung, red handed. They charge him […]
Noel Callow has just copped 3 months for betting on races, in total breach of the rules and his own obligations. Usually such an offence is a minimum 1 year disqualification – remember J-Mac copping it? – but in this case in it’s wisdom the Victorian Racing Tribunal has seen fit to give Callow only […]
