Mick is Confirmed as a Member of the RAP – Pull the Whip!
Pull the whip Mick!
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
The jungle drums are beating that Mick Dittman has been, or is about to be, appointed as a member of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP), to replace Skye Bogenhuber, who is reportedly making a comeback to race riding. If the rumor is true – which we believe it to be – it creates quite […]
Farewell Judge O’Brien – Thanks For Your Great Work
We have learned that Noel Callow’s successful appeal against his second disqualification on Monday will be the last case heard by Judge Kerry O’Brien as Chairperson of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel. Judge O’Brien was engaged for a 3-year term as the inaugural leader of the Panel, and has done a superb job. We may […]
Is It Better to Live and Suffer, or To Die? – No-one Asked the Little Chestnut Mare Before They Shot Her in the Head
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 […]
Not a Good Look For Racing
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 […]
The Independent Racing Media – Part 3 -Who Will Win the War? I Dunno, I’m Not Sure
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 […]
The Human Right Act Will Set Amy Graham Free
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. […]
In the Hanging State Things Work Upside Down
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 […]
Jared Hetherington Wins Appeal Against Cobalt Conviction – 2 Year DQ Kicked to Touch – The Magic Man Strikes Again!
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 Stewards Stuffed Up In the Joshua Morrow Case – And Their Mistake Mattered
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 […]