Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Todd Austin trained Echo Point until Ric McMahon got with the jigger that they he wanted him to use in trackwork on ‘one of ‘ his Birdsville Cup runners. I use the inverted commas because not only one Cup runner was jiggered, both were. The photographer just didn’t catch the other one in her photos. […]
Stewards have slapped the husband and wife duo of Todd and Toni Austin, along with jockey Ric McMahon with a string of charges relating to the alleged Birdsville Cup jigger scandal from August this year. Stewards allege the trio were involved in the scandal ahead of the famous bush meeting on August 30, when a […]
Murdoch KC and the Sunshine Band – his client Todd Austin and patrons – have been going after Mt Isa bookie Graham Saunders at the jigger inquiry, accusing him of funding Ric McMahon’s legal defence, with the obvious objective being to shift blame for the jigger use away from Austin and solely onto McMahon and […]
A QRIC spokesperson has provided the following statement in relation to questions that we posed this morning regarding a person charged with child sex offences holding a license to work with at a racing stable and perform their employment duties in the mounting yard of a metropolitan South East Queensland race track. We thank the […]
We are pleased to announce that within 90 minutes of us posting this morning’s highly disturbing story about the accused child sex offender in the mounting yard at Saturday’s races, we have received further mail that the alleged grub’s license has been taken away. It is our great hope that a ban order preventing the […]
So far there have been 6 heats of ID22 run. meaning that there have been 18 placings in these heats. Horses trained by Tonkin and Stewart have filled 9 of these 18 spots. Belinda McCarthy trained pacers have filled a further 4. That’s just two stables that have produced 13 of the 18 placed horses […]
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 […]
