Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
As you know, we have been banging on for ages about the story of Ricky Gordon and co presenting a mare to race at Albion Park when she was supposed to be a gelding with a different brand. Gordon, his partner’s father, and their float driver have reportedly all copped 3 month suspensions as a […]
Luke Duggan, a Toowoomba based businessman and representative football coach who holds a Bachelor of Business/Commerce degree, has lost his appeal a suspension imposed by QRIC Stewards ahead of the hearing of a charge of following to fail a Stewards direction to hand over his phone. The direction had been issued during a wide ranging […]
We have written before about the Chad Schofield case, so we won’t bore you with the details. Guts of it is that due to a freak rainstorm, the Stewards had to make a decision on the effective start date of a suspension that Schofield had earlier incurred, and they made the wrong one. The QLD […]
The QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP), which we always spoke of so highly when it was under the leadership of the esteemed retired judge and brilliant jurist Kerry O’ Brien, has turned bizarro since His Honour left the building. A bloke named Dr Peter McDermott RFD is now the Chair of the Panel. RFD is […]
Archie Re Schofield – you are bang on about the issue decided by the Supreme Court. Merits review (a fresh decision by the Panel not requiring a participant to demonstrate error) is clearly what was intended and is a better outcome for racing generally. Despite what QRIC might think, integrity bodies are enhanced by a […]
We were right about the QRIC v QLD Racing Appeals Tribunal appeal of the Chad Schofield penalty decision, made by way of a Judicial Review of the decision by the Supreme Court, falling the Appeals Panel’s way. It’s just a shame we couldn’t get a price. The decision is one of interest to a lot […]
One of the more interesting racing cases this year comes to its climax tomorrow when the Supreme Court of QLD hands down its decision on the QRIC’s application for judicial review of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel decision in the case of a 13 day suspension handed down to Chad Schofield in January last year. […]
Relying on information from a usually 100 percent reliable source, we told you yesterday that the QRIC had challenged the QCAT by appealing the decision to allow Greg Bennett back into the trots. That was wrong. It was another matter entirely that the QRIC challenged. Their appeal against the Racing Appeal Panels decision in the […]
The most curious racing case of the year was heard yesterday in the Supreme Court. QRIC took the the QCAT to the court to appeal the tribunal’s decision to overturn their (QRIC’s) determination to deny trot driver Greg Bennett back into the game after 15 years in the wilderness by granting him a license. QRIC […]
After 15 years in harness racing’s wilderness, former champion NSW reinsman Greg Bennett’s long march to freedom is over after the QLD Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) this week declared Bennett to be a fit and proper person to hold a Class A Driver’s License. In 2011 was stood down from the sport and later […]
