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Rookie trainer Luke Duggan has won his appeal against an 8-month disqualification for failing to follow a Stewards direction to hand his phone over to them. Sort of. Duggan’s disqualification has been reduced to 3 months, but the Racing Appeals Panel refused to recognise the time that he has been stood down for (approximately 3 […]
Ryan Wiggins lucky streak continued earlier this week when the QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP) upheld his protest against an 8-day suspension for careless riding he got at Cairns last month, and substituted it with a slap on the wrist, aka a reprimand. It was a strange decision, one in which I reckon the RAP […]
Murdoch KC directs the Stewards to the decisions in the cases of Sildie Canda and Clayton Gallagher. Each got much lesser penalties than Duggan, and they were evasive and antagonistic toward Stewards, whereas Luke Duggan was cooperative throughout and made every attempt to assist Stewards to get what they wanted without him losing connectivity to […]
The QRIC lawyer probes Duggan about whether he told the Stewards about the other phones in his draw. Yes, he replies, he did. Duggan explains that he uses an authenticator app on his phone, presumably to verify and authorise payments and the like. He is asked how long he had been a trainer for at […]
The Rappers arrive and we are off and away. Duggan being the applicant, Murdoch goes first. He calls Duggan to the witness box front up. The witness takes the oath in the traditional way, on the bible. Murdoch asks his client how many phones he uses. The answer is one. The phone is used for […]
We are here today reporting live from the Racing Appeals Panel, and the appeal we are interested in is that of Luke Duggan, who as you might remember was charged with not handing over his phone to Stewards when directed to, and disqualified for 8 months. In his first week as a trainer. It’s a […]
There is a somewhat interesting matter going before the QLD Racing Appeals Panel this week. It relates to the death of a racehorse named River Danzka in early 2025, and the reasons behind it. River Danzka was a slow 5-year-old gelding trained by former Mount Isa race club President Peter Inwood, and had been beaten […]
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 […]
