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For reasons as yet unexplained Gemma Steele’s appeal against her penalty for failing to weigh in after a race at Bundy has been cancelled. Our proposition about there being a requirement under the rules to engage or employ a Clerk of the Scales will have to live to be argued another day.
We am not quite sure why every racing licensee who is forced to face the QCAT or the Racing Appeals Panel doesn’t contact us for a bit of free advice first, for we are rarely wrong. This morning we tipped that George Sitek would get off his conviction of a breach of AR228(b) if he […]
‘Gorgeous’ George Sitek has a hurdle to get over if he is any chance of winning his matter before the QLD Racing Appeals Panel this morning, that hurdle being the the delay in the lodgment of his appeal. Under the standard operating procedures appeals have to be lodged within 3 business days of the incident […]
There is a potentially interesting matter going before the QLD Racing Appeals Panel on Monday. It’s jockey Gemma Steele’s appeal against a $200 fine issued to her for failing to weight in after a race at Bundaberg last Saturday week. It is an unusual one, for Steele’s horse finished 5th and due to its placing […]
Queensland jockey Dale Evans has lost his appeal against his 6 month suspension for placing more than 2000 bets through accounts with corporate bookies. Given Evans appalling track record of suspensions, disqualifications and criminal offences of fraud committed to get money for the punt that’s no great shock at all, because he got off very […]
Archie Re your story yesterday. I think Glenda Bell (pictured at top) can seek an appeal. Section 241 of the Racing Integrity Act – person affected by an original decision – confers the right on her. Elton I rarely disagree with our regular correspondent Elton, for he has a good grasp on the rules of […]
Australian Racing Rule 210(2) relates to a rider failing to weigh in after a race. But Glenda Bell isn’t a jockey. She’s a trainer. So how can the Emerald based Bell appeal a penalty that hasn’t actually been imposed on her? I guess we will find out tomorrow if she can. And here I was […]
Jockey Anthony Allen appeared before the Racing Appeals Panel yesterday to appeal an alleged matter relating to a penalty handed down against him for careless riding. The question is why? What suspension is he actually appealing? Under the laws governing racing appeals in QLD, those like careless riding that attract a penalty of a disqualification […]
The QLD Racing Appeals Panel came into existence in March last year, after having been created to address the long delays in the previous appeal body QCAT handing down decisions in racing matters. After almost a year, the panel appears to have been a success. It has heard 49 matters so far, and all of […]
James Murdoch KC, aka the Magic Man The favourite game of jockey and trainer’s smart lawyers in Queensland used to be to get a stay of their suspension/disqualification/warnings off for rule breach offences by Stewards in the QLD Civil and Administration Tribunal (QCAT), and knowing the long delays in that multi-faceted minor court of dispute […]
