Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Things are looking grim for the day’s racing at the Sunshine Coast if the rain keeps coming. The track this morning is rated a Heavy 9, with the penotrometer reading 7.5, which means that the horse will be cutting deep into the track from the get go. Given the way the Caloundra course proper has […]
The longest drought in Central QLD racing history finally broke on Thursday when Cashin’ Chex stormed to the line to give Mackay trainer Drew Crouch his first winner since March in the year 2006, way back when little Johnny Howard still ruled Australia and James’ Blunt’s Beautiful soared on top of the charts. It had […]
The tempestuous career of talented apprentice Bailey Wheeler has struck another setback, as usual one totally of his own making, when he was this week suspended for 28 days for lying to the Stewards at the Ipswich Cup meeting. Details are a little scant, but the guts of it is that when Wheeler turned up […]
Apprentice jockey Tyler Leslight’s 4-week suspension for calling rival rider Wanderson D’Avila a ‘black c**t’ has this week been reduced to a $1000 fine by the Racing Appeals Panel. In making its decision the Panel found that the sentence issued to Leslight was disproportionate to those handed down to other offenders against the rule, including […]
As you can see in our story republished below, in July last year jockey Isabella Teh was hit with a 26 day suspensionafter being found guilty of causing interference in a race at Townsville that resulted in rider K.Quilty suffering a fall. Teh lodged an appeal but it never got heard, for after realising that […]
QLD Labor MP for Pine Rivers Nikki Boyd is a hard worker and a pleasant person. I should know, I used to be her boss. But the former childcare worker and union official turned crew member on a sinking ship is kidding herself if she thinks the $1000 electricity credit/election bribe for QLD households is […]
Under the Queensland Local Rules of Racing a horse competing at a metropolitan race meeting (other than in a Group race or race 1) must be on course at least 2 hours before the advertised starting time of its race. From an integrity perspective adherence to the arrival time is extremely important, for horses that […]
The batteries must have run flat on trainer Patrick O’Toole’ss jigger during the week judging by the performance of his previously sparked up horse Oakleigh on the weekend at Alpha. The winner of just 1 race from 35 starts prior to being hit with the jigger turned post-jolt winner of 2 from 2 was back […]
Ricky Vale back in his bodybuilding days, showing off his muscles Can you remember ever seeing a horse in the modern age attempt to carry 70.5 to victory in a feature flat race like Ricky Vale’s great provincial galloper Namazu will in the Tattersells Gold Cup at Rockhampton this afternoon? Both Greg from the Gold […]
Just six weeks after jockey Scott Sheargold had his license suspended for a fortnight after he stuffed owners and trainers around for the 2nd time in 8 weeks by accepting dual engagements for mounts, and despite his having claimed that he had implemented changes to his booking procedures to make sure it would never happen […]
