Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We wrote just the other day about how easing up on a leader and getting beaten is a jockey’s worst nightmare. Michael Cahill is a bit old for having nightmares you would have thought, but you’d be wrong. The Group 1 winning rider with 4 decades of riding experience had one yesterday at Doomben, and […]
Most thought apprentice jockey Sariah Champkin’s racing career to be over after she was found guilty in July of assault occasioning bodily harm perpetrated against a fellow rider. Champkin’s own defense lawyer told the court that “unless the advice given to her, from authority itself, was wrong, her career in that industry is over.” The […]
The QLD Forfeit List is a record of defaulters on debts owed to Racing QLD. Anyone whose name appears on the list is treated the same as a disqualified person, meaning that they cannot ride, train, own or race horses; are barred from entering any race track; and cannot associate with licensed persons for purposes […]
We’re told that the crowd at Flemington on Saturday afternoon was so thin that you could driven a bulldozer through the lawn without any danger of knocking a person down. Sure it was an abysmal day weather wise, but the low turnout must still be a huge worry for the VRC as it heads in […]
The annual performance report of the still relatively new QLD Racing Appeals Panel has been released, and I must say that on every level the Panel has proven to be a huge success. 42 applications were decided in the past year. All bar 1 of them were completed on time. Of the 42 determined applications, 18 […]
Central QLD Senior Steward Tate Hudson hasn’t been seen at the races since Mackay Cup day more than a month ago. His absence from the track has sparked various rumors about phones, cones or getting the bone. Not that we’d repeat them of course. QLD’s friendliest Steward has probably just gone on a cruise. If […]
The Stewards at Prairie yesterday hauled jockey Shane McGovern into the room for a please explain about his failing to ride out Stop On Sophia (the horse in 2nd as the film rolls, in the green and red) fully to the finishing line in race three. McGovern quite truthfully explained that his saddle had slipped […]
We have written extensively over the past 3 months about the unacceptable dangers that the Bundaberg greyhound track poses to racing animals, and have repeatedly called for it to be closed down. As a direct result of our stories detailing the mass injuries – and in some cases deaths – suffered by dogs at the […]
Mister had been with trainer Garry Bignell for about a month coming into race 5 at Birdsville yesterday. It had been beaten more than ten lengths in both starts that it has had for him. The most recent drubbing was 6 days ago at Betoota over the 1200m, the same distance as yesterday’s race. Birdsville […]
Trot trainer John Livingstone was a well known face and fixture at harness race meetings around South-East Queensland and the Tweed for the better part of four decades, until his grief-driven retirement from the game about a dozen years ago in the wake of the tragic, far too early passing of his beloved wife and […]
