Drivers Shouldn’t Check Out the Talent During Races
I don’t know about you, but I normally hang out or stand up straight when I’m checking out the talent. Methinks the Stewards report might be a mistake. What about you?
From Fiasco to Farce – Only in Queenland
Have you ever seen a stuff-up like the start of race 6 at Doomben yesterday in your life? The rider of Glorious Ruby gets hurled out the back of the stalls. There is shouting and commotion everywhere, and the official behind the gates raises their hand to alert the starter, but it doesn’t work. Somehow […]
Nobody Said They Were Rocket Scientists
In scenes straight out of the movie Dumb and Dumber, apprentices Tahlia Fenton and Alisha Donald were both yesterday fined by Stewards at the Ipswich meeting for breaches of the rules relating to jockeys phone use. They should also have been charged with rank stupidity. Fenton’s offence involved using her mobile phone while in the […]
Swab Blitz Under the Tree of Knowledge on a Dusty Monday Afternoon
Something strange went on at the far-western country TAB meeting at Barcaldine on Monday. The previous Wednesday only 5 horses had been pre-race swabbed at the midweek metropolitan TAB meeting at Eagle Farm. At Barcaldine 15 runner were. All of the jockeys riding at the meeting were swabbed too. Blood was taken from 7 of […]
Someone Should Give Barrier Attendant Kyle Sharp a Hard Kick in the Arse Too
Take a look at the three short clips below. They were taken at the starts of races 4 and 5 at Oak Park on Friday, and race 1 at the same track on Saturdy. In particular watch what the barrier attendant in the red vest does. His name is Kyle Sharp. WTF? Since when were […]
Rain, Rain, Go Away, Come Again Another Day – Will the Sunshine Coast Track Make it Through to the Last?
Things are looking grim for the day’s racing at the Sunshine Coast if the rain keeps coming. The track this morning is rated a Heavy 9, with the penotrometer reading 7.5, which means that the horse will be cutting deep into the track from the get go. Given the way the Caloundra course proper has […]
The Longest Drought in Central QLD History Finally Breaks
The longest drought in Central QLD racing history finally broke on Thursday when Cashin’ Chex stormed to the line to give Mackay trainer Drew Crouch his first winner since March in the year 2006, way back when little Johnny Howard still ruled Australia and James’ Blunt’s Beautiful soared on top of the charts. It had […]
Bailey Wheeler Suspended For Another Month For Lying to Stewards – Can the Career of This Kid Who Doesn’t Seem to Care Ever Be Saved?
The tempestuous career of talented apprentice Bailey Wheeler has struck another setback, as usual one totally of his own making, when he was this week suspended for 28 days for lying to the Stewards at the Ipswich Cup meeting. Details are a little scant, but the guts of it is that when Wheeler turned up […]
Leslight 4-Week Suspension For Racist Remark Reduced to $1000 Fine
Apprentice jockey Tyler Leslight’s 4-week suspension for calling rival rider Wanderson D’Avila a ‘black c**t’ has this week been reduced to a $1000 fine by the Racing Appeals Panel. In making its decision the Panel found that the sentence issued to Leslight was disproportionate to those handed down to other offenders against the rule, including […]
What’s Going on Here?
As you can see in our story republished below, in July last year jockey Isabella Teh was hit with a 26 day suspensionafter being found guilty of causing interference in a race at Townsville that resulted in rider K.Quilty suffering a fall. Teh lodged an appeal but it never got heard, for after realising that […]