Six Years to Deal With a Simple Positive Swab – Only in QLD
How can it possibly take six years to conduct and conclude what should have been a relatively simple Stewards Inquiry into a horse throwing a positive swab? I don’t care how many excuses about delays and unavailable witnesses that the stipes throw up, that is just duck shoving. No inquiry should take this long, and […]
Boomtime Baby is a Nonnie – And the Central QLD Stewards are Blind
The Nonnie is the curse of punters the world around. Nonnie stands for non-winner, and we’re talking maidens here. We are talking horses that appear to have the world of ability and often start favourite, but just refuse to stick their head out on the line when it counts, or shirk the task when they […]
Brown Rice Bangs His Head Trying to Find Guts and a Heart Underneath a Blues Jersey
Bose means to strike the ground with an object to try to find what’s underneath. They say that the chap in the picture Ron Johnson – aka the Brown Rice Man – has been out at the Wattles ground at Toowoomba bashing the ground with his head for the past three hours, trying to discover […]
Why is Wayne ‘Mirrors’ Innes Still Allowed on QLD Race Courses? – Are Undesirable Fraudsters and Racing Thieves Supposed to Be Warned Off?
Mirrors is a con man, a fraudster, a thief and a weak gutted cat. He’s a dog too. The fact that he is still allowed on Queensland race courses is a disgrace. I don’t know what to say about the licensees who walk up and shake his hand. There is something very wrong with this […]
The Fix Was In – Husband For Wife, Stablemate for Stablemate, Rule Break to Heartbreak
There is a bit of a problem with how race 7 at Albion Park on Friday was run. A lot of a problem actually. Trainer Dan Russell had 2 horses in the race. One was Sharp Shooter, driven by Matt Elkins. The other was Heartbreak, driven by his ever loving spouse Narissa McMullen. Sharp Shooter […]
How Many Stewards Does it Take to Make a Total Stuff Up?
In Queensland the answer is seven. See the official Stewards Report from Eagle Farm yesterday (above)? Ingratiating was slow to begin and raced wide without cover it says. I backed Ingratiating. It is the horse in the Godolphin blue in the replay below. As you can see, Ingratiating never, ever left the fence, not even […]
This is What Two Weeks at John McMullen’s Place Does to a Horse He Doesn’t Want
This scrawny, mangy ghost of a horse is King Kulafu. My mate The Boxer owned him until a couple of weeks ago. He last saw him at the start of May before he left for Thailand to get married. At that stage the King was a healthy, well muscled, fit horse. The King raced at […]
Whatever Happened to Doomben?
Once upon a time Doomben was one of the best wet weather tracks in Australia. It used to dry quickly and be raceable when other tracks couldn’t, and only sustained heavy rainfall over consecutive days would see a meeting called off. These days however it is nothing but a slush pit. On Saturday Eagle Farm, […]
Runing For the Roses Past a Dead Horse’s Corpse – The Chief Steward Should Be Sacked
A horse named Steel Prince died on the track at Eagle Farm yesterday. His death happened 200m from the winning post, on the first lap of a 2 lap race. The horse suddenly faltered, then suddenly veered sharp left toward the outside fence. It’s jockey Nash Rawiller fell off. Steel Prince headed sideways toward the […]