Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Obviously Animal Welfare is not important any more unless it is hidden away with one of the other ELT portfolios listed on the QRIC website. But then it must be important enough to fly a Vet into Queensland from South Australia for metro race meetings and pay accommodation as well to assist the one full-time […]
You can see the Steward report about race 2 at Townsville yesterday. Now look at the race. And tell me that Amanda Thomson didn’t ride this second placed grey horse the $1.80 favorite dead. Puh-lease. Gimme a break.
You’ve read the official report about race 7 at Albion Park yesterday at the top of this story. The Chief Steward Steve Shinn – a former top level trot driver who once steered Pure Steel, and a man well known to be partial to a bet – allows the cousins Nathan Dawson and Pete ‘Noddy’ […]
February 27, 2024 The time-honoured Cairns Amateurs Carnival will take on a new twist this year after celebrating its Sapphire Jubilee. Over the past 65 years, Cairns Amateurs has served as one of the state’s most iconic regional events under the auspices of the Far North Queensland Amateur Turf Club. With hundreds of thousands of […]
Ten years ago the then QLD Racing Minister Steve Dickson – the man who famously declared that QLD racing was half a furlong in front of the southern states – announced this worthy initiative to integrate young riders from Korea into Australian racing. Sadly like a lot of Minister Dickson’s grand ideas it faded away […]
The QLD Racing Appeals Panel came into existence in March last year, after having been created to address the long delays in the previous appeal body QCAT handing down decisions in racing matters. After almost a year, the panel appears to have been a success. It has heard 49 matters so far, and all of […]
Isn’t it interesting to learn from the QLD Stewards that apprentice jockey Bailey Moffat is a Siamese twin. He’d just about have to be to have the ability to ride two horses in the same race wouldn’t he? According to the stewards Moffat was almost dislodged from Adashan in the first race at Mt Isa […]
Any time soon a very famous name in racing is set to join the apprentice rider ranks in Queensland. I refer here to trainee apprentice Julie Busuttin, daughter of Castletown’s (pictured above) former trainer Paddy Busuttin, and younger sister of current gun Victorian trainer Trent. Julie has just kicked off riding in trials, and had […]
Queensland’s iron horse, the fabulous Fab’s Cowboy, took his career win tally to 51 when he smashed them in the Open Plate at Mt Isa on Saturday afternoon. Although I can’t find any records to confirm it, I believe from memory of a conversation with Fab’s trainer Billly Johnson a year or so ago that […]
At 6 out of 1o the past ten TAB gallops meetings in QLD there have been six horses pre-race swabbed. The most samples taken were 7, which was only once at Rockhampton, which makes sense because milkshake drenching has long been rife amidst the trainers at the track by the Fitzroy River. Three was the […]
