Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well if this was the first major test of the new Racing Appeals Panel in Queensland it has failed. Both of Desleigh Forster’s runners at Doomben today have been scratched. The owners of the horses have copped it up the Khyber Pass. Was Des’s stay application actually heard, and has it been refused? Or has […]
As country racing has kicked off in western Queensland in recent weeks, momentum is building for a “jockey school” – or mentoring program – to recruit more jockeys and track staff to offset crippling shortages. Amid claims that the North-West had only five or six locally-based jockeys for the 2023 season, which prompted scratched horses […]
Alan Endresz is having a very bad week. First his horse Private Banker – is it rhyming slang? – was subject to an inquiry into it being flicked with a stockwhip by Desleigh Forster. Alligator Al wasn’t there and had nothing to do with it, but has faith in his trainer and believes that if […]
Does anyone remember the so-called Cobram race fixing rort from a couple of years ago? The one that saw Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack and Mark Pitt charged with criminal offences and convicted, with the convictions later overturned on appeal? It was a nightmare for the subsequently acquitted star duo, one that could quite easily have ended […]
Take that Kev you wanker. Picture taken in the foyer of Parliament House the day after Jules knocked him off. With a little help from her friends. What the factions giveth Kevin 07, the factions taketh away. You ever met anyone who has hi-fived a Prime Minister sportsfans? Has anyone? Yeah. Me. The new QLD […]
There are 5 races set down for Mt Isa on Saturday afternoon. 4 of them have eight runners or less. The 5th – which is actually the 1st – has 11 starters. Sadly there are only 8 jockeys going to ride at the meeting. After all, it’s a bloody long drive for just one mount, and […]
Ryan Backhouse is only 18, I get that. But trot racing is a big kids game, and people invest hundreds of thousands of dollars on each race. They expect better than what young Backhouse gave them in the last at Melton on Saturday night, and if the lad can’t deliver it while he’s a teenager […]
The hot word on the street is that Jim Murdoch QC is soon to be appointed as the inaugural Chairperson of the QLD Racing Appeals Tribunal, the body that is soon to assume responsibility for the majority of immediate objections to decisions made by Stewards in the State north of the Tweed. If this is […]
Many didn’t realise how deeply the Racing Minister was grieving today at Doomben where Grace Grace was keeping her long-standing commitment to the BRC to celebrate International Women’s day at the track. The reason for the Minister’s grief was the recent loss of her much-loved uncle, her mother’s older brother Gerardo Bellino, the Fitzgerald era […]
This is a spreadsheet of the top ten trainers and drivers in QLD over the past ten years. You can’t see it yet, but it tells a lot of tales. Tales about match fixing charges, license bans, stable changes, cobalt, stewards, coppers, lag merchants, TCO2 and a whole lot more. The full picture will blow […]
