Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Queensland’s most suspended apprentice jockey clearly didn’t make a new years resolution to ride with care, for he has started 2025 in much the same manner that he left 2o24. Suspended for careless riding. We speak of course about Dan McGillivray, the lesser talented of the errant jockey brothers (Matthew McGillivray being the other), and […]
Racing Queensland gave the Emerald Turf Club more than half a million dollars last year to construct a stewards’ room, jockey facilities, and male and female amenities, including disability access, kitchenette, TV monitors for race review and broadcast footage, and washing and drying facilities. It’s a pity no-one thought to spend any money on fixing […]
Queensland jockey Jackson Morris was yesterday suspended from race riding for 4 months for failing an on-course breath test at the Ballina races on Boxing Day. Morris’s case is near identical to Day’s. Both men arrived at work (the racecourse) with alcohol still on their systems, both were directed to participate in random breath testing, […]
A few weeks ago QLD trot trainer was fined $6000 for presenting the mare Kelloshiel to race (and win) at Marburg with dexamethasone in her system. Now Kelloshiel is a horse with an abundance of natural ability, but she clearly has a few problems that hold her back on the track. When she has been […]
Chynna Marston was found guilty of the same two equivalent charges in the rules of racing that Ryan Veivers was under the harness racing rules, they being: Failing to provide sufficient nutrition to horse in her care Failing to provide veterinary treatment to horses in her care where such veterinary treatment was necessary. Marston was […]
The official track record at Marburg over the 1850m distance is held by Arnold Street, who ran a mile rate of 1.55.4 when it set it on 22/10/24. Or that’s the record books say anyway. But it’s not true. This horse has never won a race running faster than 1.55.7 in its life, and it […]
Looks like a boom spray has been involved. Chemical from the previous treatment hasn’t been rinsed out properly. Subsequent aesthetic chemical put in to green it up for the tv camera from 600m to winning post. Treatment applied and the first 30m has been the residual from previous treatment and we have a dead square, […]
Having clocked up hundreds of hours of being on the track in 25 years at Burnie and beyond with the water truck operating a boom spray that looks way too regular a patch for the boom spray to have being turned around on whilst still on. The laws of physics mean that the inside of […]
Good morning Archie I have been watching with interest at what is unfolding in the greyhound industry both here & afar. I can say without any doubt, there needs to be some serious conversations had by Racing Queensland in numerous areas but one in particular, trainer education, they are the reason why dogs are being […]
Lozen was only just turned four-year-old when she lost her life in the twilight at Clifford Park on Saturday afternoon. Well I say lost, but really it was taken from her by the on-course vets, who made the ‘humane’ decision to euthanize the mare in preference to attempting to operate on the mare as Namazu’s […]
