Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Question One Where exactly did Chris Taylor’s mount Going To The Sun stumble at the 700m mark? Question 2 Is it acceptable for a jockey to ease their mount out of the race when are they in contention as a chance, in circumstances whereby an official vet could find nothing wrong with the horse? Question […]
Senior steward on the ground in Birdsville told the inquiry they were not required to search the campsites of Austin or McMahon the morning after the image was posted on Twitter, despite having the power to do so. Rion Hitchener said former chief steward Peter Chadwick instructed him and fellow stipe Ben Cook not to […]
Last Saturday’s card at the Gold Coast was the main racing show in Queensland, the metro meeting. The races on the program carried prizemoney of between $75 000 and $150 000. Prizemoney at the Toowoomba meeting was between $21 500 and $30 000. Betting turnover on the Coast meeting was 4-5 times the amount held […]
There was a ladies 40th birthday party booked in and paid for at Clifford Park on Saturday night. The woman had booked a package that even included a race named after her, the ‘Happy Birthday XXX’ class whatever handicap. The birthday girl rocked up early to Weetwood park to set up for the big celebration […]
At the time that a man named Nicholas Dargush posted the disturbing images republished above and below, he was a primary school teacher at Kelvin Grove State School, which is the largest school in the QLDEducation Minister Grace Grace’s electorate. Ten years later – today – Nicholas Dargush is still working with primary school children. […]
The newish QRIC Commissioner has come up with this wild and wacky idea about ‘regionalisation’, meaning that he intends to recruit and train race day Stewards from Upper Muckadilla Siding to officiate twice a year at the Lower Muckadilla Siding races, or in the case of the example I am about to give you, the […]
Remember the teacher from this morning who sent his staff music videos about weirdo adults who are in love with schoolgirls? Remember us saying a sacking awaits? Well, money, money, money. Doddsy was suspended from duty this afternoon after the QLD Education Minister Grace Grace – who is also the Racing Minister – got involved […]
These are the lyrics from the song that James Nash High School principal Jackson Dodd sent the staff as his North Gympie school as a memo. Inappropriate for a man in charge of a school full of teenage girls to be sending to teachers under his management control? Does she walk? Does she talk? Does […]
Well she’s sexy and seventeen My little rock-roll queen Acts a little bit obscene Gotta let off a little steam Dig that sound shake it around your mind , mind , mind Johnny and Eddie and me and Jimmy and Jack Are gonna do a little number on the teacher when she turns her back […]
So this Central Queensland horse trainer named Ricky Gudge rocks up to the races at Mackay with a syringe and needle in his kit, and uses them to shoot his horse up with a prohibited substance just before the races. Someone dobs him in the Stewards and he gets sprung, red handed. They charge him […]
