Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A trotter named The Present Maker won the 5th race at Nelson yesterday for the training partnership of Ann-Marie and Jack Best, a pair of battlers who try hard and do the best they can, which is not real well usually, as the pair’s single digit strike rate over the past two years shows. So […]
This Tasmanian Director of Racing Justin ‘Case’ is off his nut, or at least when it comes to making ruling about things he clearly knows sweet Fanny Adams about he gives every sign of being so. Look at this crap at the top, which are his reasons for allowing the unqualified odds on favourite Hes […]
Now I am no mathematical genius, but I did get taught numbers at Geebung State School by some pretty smart teachers. They taught me that 7 is less than 11. Less by 4 seconds. So if a Tasmanian policy of racing that has the force of a rules says that a horse MUST qualify in […]
Objection On Wednesday 11th January 2023, stewards of the Office of Racing Integrity received two written objections to Hes Ideal being permitted to start in the Harding’s Hotmix Devonport Cup. The objections were lodged pursuant to Australia Harness Racing Rule(AHRR) 175(1): ‘A person who questions the eligibility of horse to start in a race may […]
If the Emma Stewart trained pacer He’s Ideal is truly eligible to start in this weekend’s Devonport Pacing Cup, then I’ll eat my hat. On fair read of the Tasmanian control body the Office of Racing Integrity’s rules and policies it can’t possibly be. Here are the reasons why, spelled out in clear terms. 1. […]
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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 […]
