Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There were six Stewards on duty at the Ipswich gallops yesterday. God only knows why, for a single monkey would have sufficed. A horse named Buddy’s Tale was backed from $41 into $16 in race three. The plunge was a mystery to all – until the race was run anyway – for its form read […]
Queensland does not just have a shortage of jockeys. We have a shortage of Stewards too. If you have at least one leg, an eye or ear (applicants with neither will still be considered under the QRIC Equal Employment Opportunity policy), are prepared to kiss Pete Chadwick and his boss Shane Gillard’s arse, hate Archie […]
There is a lot of ill-feeling floating around Queensland racing circles about Winxy Waller’s Queensland racing manager, a young regally bred son of a rich and influential funds manager named Fitton. The word is that this silver spoon fed fast tracked yuppie was contacted recently by a well-regarded and earnest jockey manager, who was simply […]
Chris Waller was the hero who came to Queensland. He came, he saw, he plundered. Now he is off to Scone. True story. Waller is about to shut his Gold Coast stable down, and relocate it to Scone. Queensland racing is the bomb. The bomb that blew itself up. Thanks Winxy. Make sure you give […]
There were nine races today at Doomben, and six pre-race samples taken. 9 + 6 = 15 I like numbers. They tell you things, and allow you to work other things out by following their patterns. What a cursory analysis of the swab numbers reported in Queensland thoroughbred racing official Stewards Reports tells me is […]
Watch this race. Just don’t expect to listen to it. The dubious private company sucked from the heart of country racing volunteers On The Bit might be paid half a million plus a year to broadcast country racing, but you wouldn’t pay them two cents for being on the ball. The callers mic doesn’t talk […]
Not that any of the names mean anything to me. Much. Wasn’t D. Flower that bloke who owned horses trained by Gerald Ryan? A bloke named Gleeson got scrubbed out from the trots didn’t he? Sinclair? Didn’t Mr Asia Terry Clark used to call himself William Sinclair? Hacker? Aren’t we all. Schweida? I reckon a […]
The four-year-old galloper I Am Fearless was, until Monday, a two start maiden. At his first start in December 2020 the gelding ran a 13.6 lengths 10th of 14 at Goulburn in a 1200m Maiden. Richard and Michael Freedman were his trainers at the time. After than run I Am Fearless was deemed not good […]
They would have to be kidding wouldn’t they? Charging race fans who can’t get to Emerald for the ceremony $22.19 to watch a live stream of the Queensland Country Racing Awards. These people are rorters. They are being sponsored to the tune of a large sum of money generously donated by Ladrokes. A number of […]
We wrote yesterday about the outrageous decision in the case of leading SA jockey Jason Holder, who switched his dirty urine sample for one that was clean, deceived and lied to Stewards, and then finally threw a positive test result to banned substances when forced to do a second test. In a disgraceful decision that […]
