Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jockey Justin Huxtable was due to ride at yesterday’s cancelled Sunshine Coast meeting. Instead he spent his unplanned Sunday off snorting coke and drinking piss. The day didn’t turn out well. A drunken Huxtable got arrested for assaulting police and possession of drugs, and spent the night in the cells at the Brisbane Watchhouse, which […]
The KPMG report into its Best Practice Review of QRIC hasn’t been publicly released yet, but obviously the Commissioner and his sidekicks that most people deem responsible for the issues plagueing the integrity body, and by extension the racing industry, have got a copy. Their response? Improve their style of management so that the operation […]
There has been a most unusual rash of photo finish cameras failing at country QLD race meetings recently, so many that it appears to be fast becoming an epidemic. In the past 10 days alone the cameras have failed to work during finished at the meetings at Maxwellton Blackall Bowen Dalby Why is this happening? […]
Angus Garrard was handed a 7-day suspension for knocking a rival’s horse arse over tit at Albion Park last night, in breach of the rules. Garrard has 6 engagements to drive at Albion Park tonight, many of them horses well backed in the early betting markets. The punters who backed them did so in reliance […]
Today’s Kilcoy race meeting has been abandoned, in a period of brilliant sunshine. The word is that the track hasn’t however been Puckeridged, but rather that the club has Puckeridged it themselves. We are told that machinery was driven across the track during recent remedial works in a way that damaged the course proper, and […]
A lucrative program which would see Hong Kong apprentices trained up in Queensland before returning to their home country is being stalled by an extraordinary previous decision by the state’s governing body not to employ them. Racenet can reveal the Hong Kong Jockey Club has approached Racing Queensland to have their apprentices trained in the […]
Masters racing was introduced in Australia as a measure to afford older 42 month old or older greyhounds the opportunity to extend their racing careers years past the age when they used to retire. The concept is simple, or should be. Dogs run in races against others their age, and do it in when possible […]
Maxwelton is a town of just 22 people located in the middle of nowhere, but there was plenty of action at the races yesterday. The QRIC sent Karl Stefanovic’s cousin Sharon out to take urine swabs from the female riders. There were a whole 2 at the meeting. The whole town and a few assorted […]
By Ray See After recent controversial protest decisions at Beaudesert and the Gold Coast, which are now to be investigated by former Victorian Chief Steward Des Gleeson, a far less serious issue has come to light from the race meeting at Winton on April 6. In the second race at the meeting, a humble 800 […]
The $64,000 question on the lips of most owners and trainers at the coalface of Queensland’s embarrassing track issues is why no-one seems to be prepared to identify the elephant in the room. They want to know if no-nonsense Racing Queensland CEO Jason Scott raised this contentious topic during his crisis meeting with curators on […]
