Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Chris and Corey Munce stable is absolutely on fire at present. They have led in a winner on 8 of the past 9 occasions they’ve raced at a meeting. Their tally includes two doubles, two trebles, and four winners yesterday at the Sunshine Coast. Not even Gollan is in better form. And of course […]
The mail is that the substance that Clinton Austin’s horse threw positive to at Birdsville was the by-product of application of a sold over the counter topical antiseptic spray rather than a deliberately administered performance enhancer. Topical antiseptic spray is basically something like Betadine, the red stuff you put on cuts or sores, or Difflam […]
Bubba Tilley returned to his hometown of Roma today and lifted the biggest race of the year. Wasn’t he happy about it too. He will get a fine for sure, but who cares? Not Bubba the Lair, that’s for sure. He’s won the Cup And good on him too.
By John Lingard https://letsgohorseracing.com.au/ WE finish today’s offering with some sad news, relayed via our good mate, former bookie extraordinaire, Gary Gorrie, now living the high life in Phuket. Gary wants a legion of friends to know that a legend of harness racing in North Queensland – John ‘Ginger’ Manzelmann – has passed away. Gary […]
Story by John Lingard: www.letsgohorseracing.com.au WHO would have thought when SHEZA ALIBI was beaten on debut at Rockhampton in April that seven months later she would emerge as one of the star fillies of the Victorian Spring Carnival? And don’t think it has purely been the expertise of Peter Moody-Katherine Coleman that has solely paved […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) and the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board (RIB) do much the same things. Both have racing integrity as their driving purpose, and the functions of each are the employment of Stewards to control race meetings and discipline, take swabs and have them analyzed, and oversee and enforce animal welfare […]
We are rarely critical of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP), whose work we hold in the highest regard. It is once in a blue moon that the panel makes a mistake. But when that blue moon rises comment must be made. The QRAP stuffed up in the Joshua Morrow case. Not once, but twice. […]
Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen decided to take his old mate Gus on a trip to New Zealand. It was a working trip. Gus was there to run in the Dominion Handicap, and Pete was there to pull off a plunge. It seemed a pretty ambitious plan. Gus had won a Group 2 and a Group 3 […]
Reports just in are that jockey Amy Graham has copped a 4 month holiday for conduct bringing racing into disrepute over the cocaine snorting video that recently came to light. We are told that apprentice Sophie Wilcox has been given a 3 month spell for lying to the Stewards over the matter/. Jockey Casey Waddell […]
Will the last one out please turn off the lights and lock the door? Rumors are floating out of Bowen Hills that Entain will be announcing a wave of redundancies in the coming weeks. The exact numbers of employees who will lose their jobs is not known, but sources inside the company describe the reductions […]
