Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I got a philosophical question to ask, and although its a deep one its pertinent. Is it better to live bad or die? I’ve seen my Mum and Dad live bad after cancer fucked them up, and I’ve seen them die. They both the latter reluctantly, when they could have done it easy a long […]
A million magic crystalsPretty pure and whiteA multi-million dollarsAlmost overnightTwice as sweet as sugarTwice as pure as salt And if you get hooked babyIt’s nobody else’s fault – Grandmaster Flash, White Lines QLD jockey Amy Graham has been cleared of a charge conduct prejudicial to the image of racing under Australian Racing Rule 228(a), after […]
Victoria Leonard in our previous story is the same person who is presently involved in a bitter stoush with Peter V’Landys over the issues of (a) whether or not she personally profited from a purportedly not for profit event, by virtue of her private company getting the paid gig to run it; and (b) whether […]
Jockey Amy Graham’s appeal against her 4 month disqualification for snorting coke live on Peter Profit TV on Wednesday at the RAP will be interesting I reckon. It will be a test of the application of the Queensland Human Rights Act (HRA) and whether it works, or whether it’s just another piece of shit legislation. […]
The propaganda machine of the Hanging State couldn’t get the news about its Stewards decision to disqualify trainer Jared Hetherington out quick enough. Hetherington was disqualified on 29 October, and that very same day HRSNW posted the news of the DQ on its own website, and also caused it to be published on the Harness […]
Do you remember the story we told you about a month ago about how the Stewards in the Hanging State convicted NSW trot trainer Jared Hetherington and disqualified him for 2 years for a cobalt positive that wasn’t, because the confirmatory lab test on his horse’s sample came back under the threshold Well today J. […]
The inconsequential error by the Racing Appeals Panel (RAP) wasn’t the only thing interesting about this week’s decision on the Joshua Morrow appeal by RAP-190. The error of magnitude in the original Stewards penalty that it exposed was interesting too, if only for its illustration of the fallibility of our integrity officials and the need […]
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. […]
We wrote in our live coverage that Mitch Goring’s barrister Tim Ryan QC had done an excellent job for his client, and our judgement was spot on. Goring’s penalty has been altered to a 9-month suspension with the final 6 months of it suspended for a year, meaning he will only serve 3 months, most […]
We are back and the Panel is about to hand down its decision. Judge O’Brien delivers the verdict. First he steps us through the history of Todd Austin’s disqualification. We learn that Austin’s penalty was reduced from a 5-year DQ until a 3-year DQ after discussions between the parties, which appears a most unusual agreement […]
