Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Popular QLD jockey Emily Lang has been handed an 18 day suspension by Stewards for her careless riding that put rival rider Fiona Sandkuhl on the deck in a race at Ipswich earlier this month. Land pleaded not guilty to the charge of allowing her mount to shift in on top of the horse ridden […]
Memo to the Marburg trot Stewards. When your idiot’s guide to writing a race day report says “Delete if nothing to report”, you really should do it. Otherwise you look silly. And so does the organization that has to tell you what to do. As Homer Simpson says. D’oh.
In the space of a few weeks horse trainer Kristie Clark-Peoples has risen from relative obscurity to seemingly being featured prominently on the QRIC’s Top 10 wanted list. If you want a cryptic clue as to why, then remember that some years ago Clark-Peoples broke in a later classy Asian galloper called Gingerbread Man. Say […]
Remember us telling you a month ago that a leading owner of racehorses trained by Kelly Schweida had been charged with serious financial crimes involving his business dealings in the pork industry? We told you that we knew the name of the person but were prevented by law from sharing it with you until he […]
I got a tip earlier in the week that trainer Kristie Clark-Peoples, her husband and fellow licensee David Peoples, and a staff member who shall not be named, might be paying a visit to the QRIC Stewards office sometime soon. The matter, our mailman said, involved a reputed positive swab that one of the Peoples […]
Archie Point taken with regards to COT (change of tactics) Batemans Bay in race 5 at Mackay on Saturday, but a five horse race around Ooralea of which comprised two legless goats in comparison to a fifteen horse race at Cluden Park on Townsville Cup day is apples and oranges all things considered. At Mackay […]
Apprentice Rob Thorburn had a busy day on Saturday. Thorburn rode in the first at Eagle Farm (no good), zipped down the Pacific Motorway to the Gold Coast to boot home the winner of race 5 there, and then jumped back in the buggy to ride four mounts at Toowoomba (one second). All up the […]
What do you make of the Cloncurry races on Saturday? It is a four race non-TAB card that has 6 runners in each race, 24 in total. Four trainers prepare the 24 runners. Tanya Parry has 13. Shryn Royes 7. Toni Schofield 3. Ray Hermann 2. There will be a ton of scratchings for want […]
QLD Stewards questioned former South African jockey Brandon Lerena about his ride on Butterfly Style in the 5th race at Ipswich on Wednesday, and have left their inquiry open until they check the betting sheets. I don’t blame them, because Lerena’s hyper attacking ride didn’t make any sense, and it brought both his horse, and the […]
If you were about 5ft 6 and a big muscly bastard accidentally stood on your foot on a bus, would you react by whacking them in the head. I doubt it, not unless the big bugger was restrained, giving you a free shot. Even then its still not kosher, for whatever reason, and if you […]
