Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
The hot word on the street is that Jim Murdoch QC is soon to be appointed as the inaugural Chairperson of the QLD Racing Appeals Tribunal, the body that is soon to assume responsibility for the majority of immediate objections to decisions made by Stewards in the State north of the Tweed. If this is […]
Many didn’t realise how deeply the Racing Minister was grieving today at Doomben where Grace Grace was keeping her long-standing commitment to the BRC to celebrate International Women’s day at the track. The reason for the Minister’s grief was the recent loss of her much-loved uncle, her mother’s older brother Gerardo Bellino, the Fitzgerald era […]
This is a spreadsheet of the top ten trainers and drivers in QLD over the past ten years. You can’t see it yet, but it tells a lot of tales. Tales about match fixing charges, license bans, stable changes, cobalt, stewards, coppers, lag merchants, TCO2 and a whole lot more. The full picture will blow […]
There were seven riders at the Mt Isa meeting on Saturday. All of them were sober, checked and correct. They should have put the race schedulers from Racing QLD on the bag instead. Despite knowing that only 7 jocks were likely to turn up to ride at the meeting, they programmed fields of 8, 9, […]
The word on the street is that trainer Mark Currie – who many suspect bowls for his son Ben – has thrown a positive swab to cocaine. End Assembly is the name of the horse, and it is said to have thrown the positive at Eagle Farm on the 17th of December 2022. Pre-race it […]
Archie Last seasons Premiership winning Toowoomba stable seems to have lost their recipe. From the stable’s last 25 runners in Toowoomba, it has had just 1 winner. I wonder if it might have something to do with their horses now having to be stabled where the cameras are on them after acceptance time, with the […]
Dear Jane I am a transsexual, gender fluid, pansexual, disabled Australian who speaks Swahili as their first language and lives on Booby Island in the Torres Strait because I identify as half a woman and love tits. I have also been a compulsive gambler since I was 6 years old and wearing Mum’s stockings and […]
RACING APPEALS TRIBUNAL QUEENSLAND NOTICE OF DECISION APPEAL NO: RT016-07 DATE: 9 July 2007 APPELLANT: Shane Ernst George Scriven RESPONDENT: Queensland Racing APPEARANCES: Mr Michael Grant-Taylor SC on behalf of the Appellant; and Mr Matthew Tutt on behalf of the Respondent. REASONS FOR JUDGMENT Mr Brockwell Miller – Deputy Chairman The Appellant rode Take The Plea […]
