Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 2: TAB BENCHMARK 60 Handicap 800 metres Mr Vista- Slipped at the 500m point then bumped SUNIKI who in turn bumped the hindquarters of BONGANI which became unbalanced. Trainer W Bannerot reported to stewards that the gelding had returned showing signs of lameness post-race. A post-Race veterinary examination was undertaken with signs of […]
It’s an extract from the QRIC Penalty Sentencing Guidelines for offences proven to have been committed by errant thoroughbred racing licensees. What it’s talking about is the compatibility of the guidelines with the legal rights that a person has under the QLD Human Rights Act. The bit we are interested in is this one: The […]
In harness racing a horse has to qualify to be eligible to race. They qualify by running in trials so that the Stewards can be satisfied that they are appropriate horses to represent the sport on the public stage. Stewards come and Stewards go, and in this world we all see things slightly differently, even […]
Well if this was the first major test of the new Racing Appeals Panel in Queensland it has failed. Both of Desleigh Forster’s runners at Doomben today have been scratched. The owners of the horses have copped it up the Khyber Pass. Was Des’s stay application actually heard, and has it been refused? Or has […]
As country racing has kicked off in western Queensland in recent weeks, momentum is building for a “jockey school” – or mentoring program – to recruit more jockeys and track staff to offset crippling shortages. Amid claims that the North-West had only five or six locally-based jockeys for the 2023 season, which prompted scratched horses […]
Alan Endresz is having a very bad week. First his horse Private Banker – is it rhyming slang? – was subject to an inquiry into it being flicked with a stockwhip by Desleigh Forster. Alligator Al wasn’t there and had nothing to do with it, but has faith in his trainer and believes that if […]
Does anyone remember the so-called Cobram race fixing rort from a couple of years ago? The one that saw Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack and Mark Pitt charged with criminal offences and convicted, with the convictions later overturned on appeal? It was a nightmare for the subsequently acquitted star duo, one that could quite easily have ended […]
Take that Kev you wanker. Picture taken in the foyer of Parliament House the day after Jules knocked him off. With a little help from her friends. What the factions giveth Kevin 07, the factions taketh away. You ever met anyone who has hi-fived a Prime Minister sportsfans? Has anyone? Yeah. Me. The new QLD […]
There are 5 races set down for Mt Isa on Saturday afternoon. 4 of them have eight runners or less. The 5th – which is actually the 1st – has 11 starters. Sadly there are only 8 jockeys going to ride at the meeting. After all, it’s a bloody long drive for just one mount, and […]
Ryan Backhouse is only 18, I get that. But trot racing is a big kids game, and people invest hundreds of thousands of dollars on each race. They expect better than what young Backhouse gave them in the last at Melton on Saturday night, and if the lad can’t deliver it while he’s a teenager […]
