Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I came across this photo of rider Wanderson D’Avila in the jockeys room at Saturday’s Gordonvale race meeting while scrolling through the pictures posted on the Facebook page of the superb North QLD racing photographer Peter Roy. Sadly for jockey D’Avila, as well as being a great photo – my wife just walked past and […]
Powder Puff looks to sweet to be the kind of hoop who would punch a horse, doesn’t she? Queensland jockey Ceejay ‘Powder Puff’ Graham has been suspended for a week after pleading guilty to an improper action at Caloundra last Sunday. Graham – who has been out of form this season sitting outside the top […]
Former Hall of Fame greyhound trainer Ron Ball has lost his appeal against the QRIC’s refusal to relicense him after serving a 10-year disqualification for using an animal for a purpose connected with greyhound racing in a manner which is improper, such action commonly referred to as live baiting. Ball had been refused a license […]
It was a busy weekend in the bush up in QLD, with race meetings being run all across the State. Here’s a quick look at the highlights from them. Mount Isa Rober Faehr booted home a double in the first two races on the small five race program. He followed that up with a second […]
Maestro QLD bush trainer Bevan ‘Billy’ Johnson may not have affected the weights for the 1450m Country Cups qualifier at Mt Isa by putting in a dummy nomination for Han Dynasty (see story here), but there is more than one cat to skin at the races and more than one way to skin it. Billy […]
STEWARDS REPORT – MOUNT ISA: SATURDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 On Thursday, 25 September 2025, Stewards questioned trainer Mr Bevan Johnson regarding the nomination of HAN DYNASTY for both a 1,000 metre and a 1,450-metre race at Mount Isa on Saturday, 27 September 2025. Of particular concern was that HAN DYNASTY, which in 48 race starts […]
Toowoomba trainer Mark Currie realized a long-held dream this afternoon by winning the Weetwood Handicap at his home track with Tavs, and then made it a feature race double when Cryptolini took out the Toowoomba Guineas. Both were outstanding training performances. Tavs, a NSW restricted grade galloper when he joined the Currie stable, was first-up […]
Former Australian Turf Club (ATC) Chairman turned head of the QLD Racing Review Matthew McGrath appears to be somewhat confused when it comes to the Property Stakes. McGrath declares on his Linkedin page that the ATC owns Randwick racecourse. It doesn’t. The Crown (the NSW Government) does. Randwick is occupied and operated by the ATC […]
Matthew McGrath, the man from NSW running the QLD Racing Review, is a great self-promoter, but are his claims to being a highly successful racing administrator true? The simple answer in our opinion? No. In a submission McGrath made to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Sale of Rosehill he made the following claims, which no […]
The conga line of Queensland jockeys who have been outed over the doctored Health Assessment Report (HAR) scandal just got longer, with apprentice Mitch Goring the latest to cop the wrath of the Stewards. Goring has been disqualified for 8 months for submitting a HAR for the current season that was not signed by a […]
