Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If last night’s Albion Park stewarding is any indication, the current disenchantment-driven malaise in the QLD racing integrity ranks appears to be a virus that has spread like a web across all three codes. As at the gallops and greyhounds, far too few pre-race samples were taken from horses running at the meeting on which […]
I wonder how the Racing Minister feels about in the inherent sexism of the Innisfail Jockey Club’s tradies and ladies day? What’s a tradie and who’s a lady, and how do you vet a lady tradie so that they can get in free? Do they have to pull their dacks down to prove that they […]
QRIC Chief Steward Josh Adams can hardly claim impartiality when he regularly chairs panels with his brother-in-law William Wain. Wain, who commenced working for QRIC in July last year, was employed as a CAT Steward, whose prime responsibility is conducting compliance inspections in stables on and around race-day. So, the question is why are the […]
The QRIC review has been going for around a month, and it’s only on Wednesday that Botra send out information about it to its members. What they sent wasn’t a progress update. It was the Terms of Reference, for an inquiry that’s already off and away. BOTRA President Darren Garrard invited and urged industry members […]
Well we were spot on with our mail regarding horses in the care of prominent Cairns trainers having returned positive swabs to arsenic, and with our tip that they were going to escape penalty on a contamination defense. So far Alwyn Bailey and the training combo of Trevor and Peter Rowe have been done, with […]
Archie, I know you are on top of this one. But I am perplexed somewhat…. How does it take nearly 12 months to hear these inquiries? Who conducted the soil testing? Was it tested by an accredited lab and an analysis report available? Were any other horses trained by these trainers and stabled at the […]
Morning Archie If Qld racing follows through with the QRIC’s plan for only 1 vet and 1 swabbie it will often be the case where not even all the winners are able to be swabbed. There is only a small window of time from collecting the winner, hosing them down, feeding them a drink of […]
The Commission is committed to the development of improved detection methods for substances that may be used for doping purposes. The QRIC substance control strategy aims to identify areas where the use of prohibited substances is a risk to the racing industry. The way the Commission tests racing animals and when, relies on intelligence and […]
What you are watching is race 3 at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, and the interference that Kyle Wilson-Taylor on the eventual winner, the horse in red, caused to the runner-up in the red and black ridden by Jai Williams. The incident resulted in Williams firing in the protest you see at the top that was […]
Law and order is the greatest issue in QLD politics and with people right now. Football heroes are being home invaded, grandmas are being stabbed to death in front of their kids kids, kids are having their heads kicked in on the streets, cars are being jacked, houses are being robbed, guns and knives are […]
