Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We told you a year ago that octogenarian driver John Stariha was a danger, a menace and a pest on a trot track, and that he should be banned from driving in harness races for life. The authorities didn’t agree, although God knows why, for Stariha’s total incompetence in the sulky has long been on […]
Todd Austin trained Echo Point until Ric McMahon got with the jigger that they he wanted him to use in trackwork on ‘one of ‘ his Birdsville Cup runners. I use the inverted commas because not only one Cup runner was jiggered, both were. The photographer just didn’t catch the other one in her photos. […]
Stewards have slapped the husband and wife duo of Todd and Toni Austin, along with jockey Ric McMahon with a string of charges relating to the alleged Birdsville Cup jigger scandal from August this year. Stewards allege the trio were involved in the scandal ahead of the famous bush meeting on August 30, when a […]
There is a real problem in the jockey ranks when you hold a TAB meeting with a maximum of 9 acceptors in any race on the card, and you can’t get enough hoops to ride the horses. That’s exactly what happened at Rockhampton on Saturday afternoon, when six of the horses on the six-race card […]
The 12Y0 veteran galloper Hard Stride stepped out in the Country Stampede at Doomben today. I’m not sure if the horse has got a penchant for Diana Ross hit songs or whether his trainer was just confused, but the one thing I do know is that the QRIC Stewards aren’t doing their job very well. […]
Murdoch KC and the Sunshine Band – his client Todd Austin and patrons – have been going after Mt Isa bookie Graham Saunders at the jigger inquiry, accusing him of funding Ric McMahon’s legal defence, with the obvious objective being to shift blame for the jigger use away from Austin and solely onto McMahon and […]
IMPOSING BEAU – Due to a clerical error some gear publications displayed the gelding as wearing both winkers and blinkers. The correct gear changes- Winkers off, Blinkers on. Near the 1100m was checked to avoid the heels of MY ODDETTE which wasn’t completely clear. Jockey R Wiggins the rider of MY ODDETTE was reprimanded as […]
Look at the Stewards Report at the top from Mackay last week? See how there were no swabs in race 1? The reason is because the plane from Brisbane was late. WTF you ask? What’s that got to do with it? The answer should be nothing, but it seems that either the swabbie or the […]
We are hearing deeply disturbing rumours that a licensed person working in the stables of a well known South-East Queensland trainer is one of the men in the QPS media release below who was last week arrested on child sex charges. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was granted bail after his […]
Five men have been charged with multiple child sex offences following a joint investigation by officers from Argos and the Gold Coast Child Protection and Investigation Unit. The investigation commenced on November 20 on the Gold Coast, identifying the men engaging with Argos Detectives online where they arranged to meet and access a child. It […]
