Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What you see above is the replay of Race 5 at the Rockhampton TAB meeting held at Callaghan Park last Tuesday. This race was a disgrace, and the actions and inactions of the QRIC Stewards is even more disgraceful. The second favourite in the race Captain Tom was all but tailed off throughout the race, […]
Principal’s welcome My name is Jackson Dodd and I am proud to be the Principal of James Nash State High School located in the picturesque rural landscape of north Gympie. James Nash State High School is a large and welcoming secondary school campus set in native bushland, with over 1200 students from ages 11 to […]
Jackson Dodd is a school principal who is in the firing line this morning for sending highly inappropriate film clips of songs like My Angel is a Centrefold and Sexy And Seventeen to his staff as memos. God knows why he did it, or what he was thinking, but me thinks a sacking surely awaits. […]
You can’t be too hard on young apprentices for making mistakes, and if you back $2.25 shots ridden by one it’s a case of punter beware, but gee didn’t young Angela Jones stuff this ride up on the favourite Tick Tock Queen in the 7th at Doomben yesterday? It was a comedy of errors, except […]
What the hell was Samantha Collett doing on She’s The Gift in the Mooloolaba Cup yesterday? She served it up like merry hell to the leader and favourite Without Revenge from whoa to go, but she was never really looking for the lead. Every time she got a sniffing of taking it she eased. Then […]
The Stewards report into the Luke Tarrant fall at the Sunshine Coast last week has been finalised. It was no-one’s fault that Tarrant fell they found. And Shane Dye didn’t get Veandercross beaten in the ’92 Caulfield Cup either. Puhlease. The title says it all. You can read out earlier story about the fall at […]
Star apprentice jockey Jasmine Cornish had a terrible fall in a trial at the Beaudesert race last week. The track is named Aquis Beaudesert. It is owned and operated by the Gold Coast Turf Club (GCTC), one of the wealthiest racing clubs in Queensland, and the current recipient of at least $63 million in State […]
The Ric McMahon case comes on for mention in the Magistrates Court this morning. We are told by our friends in the north that the great racing man Wally Tutt, a former District Court judge who is making a comeback to the law as a solicitor after many years post being forced by his age […]
This jockey wasn’t caught with a jigger. The charges are based on the pictures taken by an innocent, well meaning photographer that were spotted by us, and published in a story on this website. In the absence of admissions or lag ups, this the best the prosecution got. Which means that the whole case hinges […]
Here is a simple explanation of how the new appeals system is going to work in QLD. We are not lawyers, so this is not legal advice. It’s just telling it like it is. Disqualification Action A DQ or suspension of 3 months or more, or being warned off or put on the forfeit list […]
