Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The short listing on harness.org.au said the Rising Sun was a preferential draw based on age and sex. But the conditions of the race advertised in Pace magazine said something quite different, very different indeed. They said that the Seeded Barrier Draw provisions of QLD harness racing would not apply. The reason they wouldn’t apply […]
I always thought that I was pretty au fait with the rules of racing, but this one has me baffled. Apprentice Montana Philpott replaced now senior rider Dan McGillivray as the rider of Star Chance in the last race at Ipswich yesterday. Now it was weird that McGillivray was able to accept the ride in […]
The announcement earlier this evening that Emma Stewart’s star 4yo Bay of Biscay will be scratched from the Rising Sun due to flight cancellations will come as a surprise to no-one except the person at RQ who declared the fields. Emma Stewart t0ld the world on the weekend – prior to final acceptances – that […]
At a time when Queensland’s new 3 track greyhound complex The Q is under attack from animal activists who allege than 10 dogs have died at the various circuits since its opening three months ago, the last thing the industry needed was a catastrophic breakdown in the home straight of a race in full view […]
So it wasn’t Battle of the Bush winning former trainer David Reynolds who scratched Megan Purvis’ horse from a race meeting at Townsville last year without her permission after all. Apologies to Mr Reynolds for suggesting otherwise. It was a stablehand named Natalie James. We don’t know why she did such a thing, but James […]
AR 263 Prohibitions on persons and their conduct while disqualified (1) Unless otherwise authorised by the PRA which imposed a disqualification (and upon such conditions as that PRA may in its discretion impose), a person disqualified under these Australian Rules must not, during the period of that disqualification: (o) receive any direct or indirect financial […]
We are in the home straight now with only a month of the season to go, and there are some battle royales going on around the State for Queensland’s prestigious premiership titles. Angela Jones and Emily Lang’s head to head tussle to become the first woman to wear the Brisbane champion jockey’s crown is set […]
The money was on My Ultimate Felix in the last at Redcliffe on Wednesday night. It was smashed from $19.00 into $4.00, and it was stable money too. Someone forgot to tell the driver about it. Or perhaps he didn’t hear them. Firenstorm was hammered late in the betting too. $51.00 into $8.00 it firmed. […]
The newly set up N40 harness racing operation owned by Josh Davine is a very fluid beast. Michael Brennan is Davine’s private trainer, yet he has sent his recent $220 000 purchase the Victoria Oaks winner Coastal Babe to Luke McCarthy to train. Korbyn Newman was brought over from New Zealand to be the stable […]
The former bookmaker Lindsay Gallagher owned pacer The Post Office was sensationally backed in the last few minutes of betting to win the first race at Marburg yesterday, firming from $51.00 late into $11.00 at the jump. The Post Office delivered by landing the plunge, but only after two extraordinary strokes of uncommonly good fortune […]
