Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I hate to be the one who has to tell the QLD trot Stewards this, but the $2.40 favorite Sir Brigadoon in the third race at Redcliffe on Monday didn’t break gait as the starter – who is not a starter but is only doing the job because the real ones are stood down for […]
I have written so often about jockey Ryan Wiggins errant riding lately that I am almost starting to feel like I’m picking on him, but rest assured I’m not. It’s just that Wiggins has been showing so little regard both for the rules and for his fellow competitors in recent weeks that I feel compelled […]
What you see above is the race track yesterday at Bundaberg, with the photo taken by a reader who was there. The inside looks alright doesn’t it? In fact it looks a whole lot better than the middle and the outer. So how come no jockey all day wanted to go near it? That’s because […]
During the week we tipped you Hello World to win the Birdsville Cup. We might have been a day early, because today on day 1 of the carnival it won the Akubra. The Akubra was a 1000m race. Tomorrow’s Cup is over a mile. Will trainer Kym Healy back him up, that is the burning […]
I get that the QRIC are a bit short of starters at the moment with two of them suspended from duty in relation to the wrong horse affair, but really are things that desperate that it come to this? Neil Finnigan is the Chief Steward of Harness Racing, and gets paid somewhere in the vicinity […]
Western QLD racing identity Gary Peoples pictured) has been many things over his long career – bookmaker, Barcaldine Regional Councillor, former Mayor of Aramac (pop. 372), wagon driver, drover following in the footsteps of the bushranger Captain Starlight – but the one thing he hasn’t been in recent years is lucky at Birdsville. In fact […]
Today’s quiz, brought to you by the QRIC Stewards. When questioned about the performance of his mount Ellis Beach, what did Aidan Holt actually say? Was it that Ellis Beach had a big night out at the casino and was still drunk The gelding’s girlfriend broke up with him this morning and he couldn’t run […]
Four other Jockey Club stipendiary stewards – Jamie Andrew Stier, Kam Shiu-bor, Tony Lam Tsun-hin and Martin Maxwell Knibbs – also testified that they did not question Fradd’s riding and believed he was only ‘settling the horse’ in the early stage of the race – www.scmp.com/article/397408/i-had-hold-horse-back-safety-says-fradd Oh dear. Martin Knibbs was once a senior racing […]
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A fortnight ago Racing Victoria CEO Aaron Morrison (pictured above) was telling us that the proposed changes to gambling advertisement and inducement laws would slash 30% off betting turnover, and lead to the wholesale closure of country tracks. A Seld-Defeating Argument? – Racing Victoria CEO Needs to Be Careful What He Doesn’t Wish For, Because […]
