Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Stewards advised Mr Bowen that a Veterinary Certificate, an ECG Report and the horse would need to undertake an official Barrier Trial prior to racing again. This is another clanger in a series of them made by Stewards at the Gordonvale meeting on Saturday. Who do you reckon is going to ride the ECG and […]
I want to tell you a little story that demonstrates the sheer incompetence of the QRIC thoroughbred steward, and illustrates it for all too see. We are at the Gordonvale races just south of Cairns on Saturday, and it’s race 4. The horse in the blue with the red cap is Magnate, ridden by Frankie […]
The three professional race meetings held at Longreach, Mt Isa and Goondoowindi on the weekend were country cards, meaning that each of the five race cards were worth about $50 000 in prizemoney and QTIC bonus payments. There was only one Steward at each meeting. This poor official had to run the whole show on […]
There were 12 stewards on duty at the Morphettville races on Saturday. At the TAB meeting at Toowoomba on Saturday there were two. The Queensland meeting was called off after three races. They still managed to slip in a clerical error. There is nothing like consistent form is there? You just wonder how on earth […]
This is the Stewards rear footage of the run down the back straight and the home straight in the first race at Ipswich yesterday. Tracks don’t throw up like this when it hasn’t rained for a week. Not properly constructed ones that cost a good part of $26 million. What the hell is going on […]
Four desk jockeys pose for the cameras dressed as builders, pretending to look like they know what they are doing You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear – ancient truism Over the past 3 years Racing Queensland has spent $26.4 million on redeveloping the long trouble plagued Ipswich racecourse. That’s a […]
Gold Coast Greg is an outback Queensland man. He wrote in a few minutes ago to share his favourite Mt Isa memory. If it’s good enough for Greg and Slim, it’s good enough for me.
This is the time my Uncle Jimmy’s horse ran over the mile on the grass track at Warwick in 1926. It was flying for those days. He held the track record for years. I’ve still got the ribbon. It was passed down through the generations as a family treasure, and remains one of my most […]
Well sportsfans, I have been bagged all over the Isa this morning for my perceived slag at the great city that represents everything that is good and true about God’s own country, Queensland. I was only being a larrikin and taking the piss, but to clear things up it’s time to be serious, and tell […]
There were four $52 000 Group 2 APG finals run at Albion Park on Saturday night. The QRIC Stewards only took pre-race swabs – blood samples – in two of them, and from only one horse in each. One of them was the $1.40 favourite in the 2YO Colts and Geldings classic, but the other […]
