Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Stewards charging apprentice Adin Thompson with improper riding on Saturday after his maiden Group winner in the Pam O’Neill Stakes attracted everyone’s attention, but most folk missed the adjourned inquiry into Jaden Lloyd’s beaten ride in the tenth race, the one right after. It is the one we should all be really looking at. […]
Looks sure do run down the female side in the Exelby family don’t they? The Australian newspaper is having great fun today making fun on Channel 10 Breakfast presenter Natasha Exelby having scored the lowest viewer ratings in TV history twice in a week, after she recorded audiences for her show of just 44 viewers […]
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see.” Muhammed Ali If an Acting Chief Steward wants to lay down his credentials for a soon-looming job* by playing the tough guy, wouldn’t you think that he would try to get the wording of the charge 100% right before […]
Kevin Seymour is a man that people in harness racing tend to have very polarised views about. They either like him or they don’t like him, and most hold a view. By and large in recent years they have been against. It’s not because Seymour is an unlikeable man – he is certainly not, in […]
Prizemoney Increase Last 5 Years – (including breeders bonuses and payments) QLD – 65.5% NSW – 9.0% VIC – 8.4% Prizemoney as Share of Revenue QLD – 82.1% NSW – 49.2% VIC – 46.0% Profit/Loss 2021/2022 Financial Year NSW – $15.7 million VIC – $2.9 million QLD – ($7.3 million) loss See these figures above? […]
Editor’s Side Note I will tell you something else about Kevin Seymour too. He’s a very good friend if you are in the team and stay loyal, and indifferent and no problem if like me you are not (in the team that is, not disloyal). But if you do the wrong thing by him, and […]
Adrian Layt is a Queensland based jockey whose official riding weight is registered as 56.5kg. Layt hasn’t ridden under 55kg (plus 1kg gear allowance) for donkey’s years. Yesterday at Townsville he was permitted to ride a horse in race 4 named Riverside Special. It was weighted at 54kg. A. Layt was never a hope of […]
Tim Butt’s trotter Kar Manor is the new Doug, the money sucking beast that breaks at almost every start. His galloping record in QLD is 7/10 so far, five of them when well in the market. He is the sort of horse that should be stood down from racing until he trials acceptably twice, and […]
It was only 3 months ago that Chief Steward Chadwick issued the directive above to QLD trainers and jockeys. Apprentices must claim their full allowance or ride at their declared minimum riding weight (MRW). Under no circumstances will an apprentice be allowed to ride over their MRW. Chief Chadwick also this issued this one – […]
How can a track that has had multi-millions spent to reconstruct possibly be as bad as Ipswich? It simply defies belief. This short clip is from the Stewards vision of a race on Wednesday. They are throwing up clods like they do a heavy. No-one has come out between races to plug the surface. The […]
