Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Another Queensland jockey has been stood down from riding. It’s apprentice Mitch Goring this time. We don’t know at this stage the reason why, but judging by recent events it will be either a positive test result or, more likely, a doctored Health Assessment Report. These errant jockeys are giving the integrity officials a lot […]
If you recall, we tipped you about this over a month ago. You always hear it here first. A Tasmanian racing integrity investigation has found a number of racing stewards, including the acting chief thoroughbred steward, placed more than 200 bets on Tasmanian horse races across a two-and-a-half-year period. And a separate investigation has found […]
We regularly bang on about the poor standard of harness race stewarding in Queensland, and usually with good reason. The Stewards Report about race 9 at Redcliffe last night is the perfect illustration. Rally Around was sent out at as the $2.90 favorite in the race. Its driver is in the Leap To Fame colors. […]
Here are some quotes from the Stewards when sentencing jockey Taylor Marshall to a 9-month disqualification for doctoring his annual Health Assessment Report. They are worth reading to understand why it is so important that a proper assessment of a riders fitness to compete is undertaken each year, and why jockeys who have submitted altered […]
What you see at the top and above are notices that the Queensland branch of the Australian Jockeys Association sent out to its members late last week. Panic stations have set in among the ranks of local riders. The QRIC are auditing all Health Assessment Reports that have been submitted by jockeys. As we told […]
It’s Saturday night at the Creek, race seven. Angus Garrard is driving number 1 Sista Sammy NZ, the horse behind the leader with the white wheels. How many marker pegs does he run over or hit? I count at least five or six. He went inside 4 or 5 before that too (see pictures below). […]
To suggest that he was a person affected by rules which were implemented to govern an industry in which he was prohibited from participating, defies common sense – NSW Racing Appeals Panel decision in Ben Sarina v Harness Racing NSW Now as we have written a million times and have plastered all over this website […]
The decision in Aaron Goadsby’s case against Harness Racing NSW will be delivered today. Goadsby has challenged the decision of the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Board to increase his penalty for refusing to hand over his phones from 12 months to 5 years, without warning him that it intended to do so. The warning – […]
It is interesting to see that the two trackwork riders who independently of each other submitted falsified annual health assessment result forms purportedly completed by their doctor each year when they weren’t, with the riders – Lane Sharrock and Jeff McKay – having submitted a previous year’s report after altering altering the dates. The appeals […]
Whispers out of Tasmania are that a 4th Steward is soon to be stood down as Tasracing investigators probe their use of a TAB account and examine the bets they have made on it. This will be the latest in a spate of allegations of betting that have been made against Stewards in different States […]
