Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) and the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board (RIB) do much the same things. Both have racing integrity as their driving purpose, and the functions of each are the employment of Stewards to control race meetings and discipline, take swabs and have them analyzed, and oversee and enforce animal welfare […]
We are rarely critical of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP), whose work we hold in the highest regard. It is once in a blue moon that the panel makes a mistake. But when that blue moon rises comment must be made. The QRAP stuffed up in the Joshua Morrow case. Not once, but twice. […]
Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen decided to take his old mate Gus on a trip to New Zealand. It was a working trip. Gus was there to run in the Dominion Handicap, and Pete was there to pull off a plunge. It seemed a pretty ambitious plan. Gus had won a Group 2 and a Group 3 […]
Reports just in are that jockey Amy Graham has copped a 4 month holiday for conduct bringing racing into disrepute over the cocaine snorting video that recently came to light. We are told that apprentice Sophie Wilcox has been given a 3 month spell for lying to the Stewards over the matter/. Jockey Casey Waddell […]
Will the last one out please turn off the lights and lock the door? Rumors are floating out of Bowen Hills that Entain will be announcing a wave of redundancies in the coming weeks. The exact numbers of employees who will lose their jobs is not known, but sources inside the company describe the reductions […]
The North West and Central West racing industry is still up in arms over a shift in heat policy. By Matt Nicholls: North-West News, 10/11/25 https://www.northwestweekly.com.au/queensland-racing-s-heat-policy-ruffling-feathers-in-bush-2025-11-10 The forecast of a “cool” 31 degrees will save today’s Mount Isa meeting from being subject to the oppressive heat policy now being forced upon Outback racing clubs. Under […]
Is trainer Lachie Manzelmann’s dominance of the numbers in bush racing a good thing or a bad? Manzelmann had 14 of the 27 runners on the five race card at Moranbah yesterday. He had 5 of the 6 in race one, 3 of 5 in race two, 2 of 4 in race three, 3 of […]
The mail out of Roma Street is that two Queensland jockeys have fallen afoul of police in the past week, one of whom at least a person you would have hoped would be living life on the straight and narrow given their well publicized legal travails over the past year. We speak here of Justin […]
There has been a lot of angst in regional QLD about the QRIC’s new practice of rearranging race meeting times in a purported attempt to best look after the welfare of horses and participants in ‘extreme’ heat. One of the major issues is that things appear to be being directed out of Brisbane, where the […]
It looks like the ongoing problem with getting riders to meetings is about to hit Kumbia on Cup Day, with up to dozen horses likely to be scratched for want of a jockey to ride them. Only seven jockeys have been declared to ride at the meeting: Chloe Lowe, Les Tilley, Corey Bayliss, Brea Harrison […]
