Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Jim Murdoch KC is not a quitter, even when handicapped by a cold, which the Magic Man sounds like he might be at the moment. He regroups, changes track, and tries again. Murdoch can’t remember the Price matter. That is because he didn’t write Price’s submissions, we did. It was a shy at the stumps, […]
It is Scott McLeod for the QRIC’s turn, and off he goes. McLeod focuses his attack on the Panel not having jurisdiction to hear the matter. The Judge interjects and draws attention to the Panel’s decision in the matter of Price. We are very familiar with that case. Price was one of the owners of […]
Murdoch KC shocks and astounds the world by comparing the QRIC to a totalitarian regime, one in which you have to confess or be jailed forever. What he is referring to is his claim that in the Stewards interview with Austin they hammered him trying to get him to reverse his long held denials of […]
Murdoch is seeming to be suggesting without saying that the decision on Austin’s license was pre-determined, and that his client was never given a fair go. He is zeroing in on the rejection letter sent to Todd Austin, and is grilling Elliott about her not putting her name to the letter. She says it is […]
