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Controversial jockey Justin Huxtable has lodged an appeal against his indefinite standdown by the QRIC after he was charged with a criminal offence. Huxtable’s appeal will be heard by the Racing Appeals Panel on Thursday. We wish him the best of luck. Given the subject matter of his police charge and his subsequent conduct he […]
The Grubby Day appeal kicks off. Kerry O’Brien as usual chairs the panel. Diane Condon and Lindsay Hicks are the other two members of the panel. Darryl Griffiths is the Steward’s representative. He has some yank woman named Ballard assisting him. I assume she’s a lawyer. Grubby appears unrepresented. O’Brien tells Grubby to ask questions […]
Ballard the lawyer with the yank accent kicks off the QRIC’s case. She said that Grubby’s fine was well inside the range, and quotes a number of cases to support her argument. Then she starts raving. Judge O’Brien jumps in. doesn’t seem to know who Grubby is. He keeps calling him jockey Butler. O’Brien tells […]
Darryl Griffiths kicks off. He says that Grubby was definitely sighted at the track at around 1pm and then took off. In many years of Stewarding he had never had a rider leave without telling the Stewards. Griffiths then raises the elephant in the room. He tells the panel that the booze bus arrived and […]
Grubby Day tells the panel that he usually sweats in the spa at home, but Ewan being in the middle of nowhere (as he describes it) there were no facilities of that kind. So he had to go old school by wrapping himself in plastic and hitting the street to go for a run in […]
Justice O’Brien begins to deliver the Panel’s verdict. He starts by saying it is appropriate to read Grubby’s appeal submission in full. It’s much as we’ve already reported. O’Brien then launches into the Stewards decision to charge Grubby and find him guilty. He explains that Grubby doesn’t have to prove himself innocent, the onus is […]
Despite suffering a $20 million decline in wagering revenue in the past year as part of a national trend, Peter V’Landys oft criticized micro-management of Racing NSW finances has steered the organization to record a bumper profit of $12.6 million for the 2023/24 financial year. And he’s done while increasing prizemoney by $36 million at […]
We can’t find any record of Grubby Day having been suspended in the past month, so you can only assume that this is appeal into an unpublished penalty that he has been issued for disappearing from the Ewan races last month when officials with human swab kits turned up on course. It will be interesting […]
This looks like being the summer of North Queensland racing’s discontent if the rumors coming out of Cluden Park about the Townsville Turf Club’s financial problems are true, which our sources inside the TTC inner sanctum assure us they are. The club’s recorded a million dollar loss for the year we’re told, which is an […]
The appeal hearing resumes, and as per the usual practice Justice O’Brien delivers the verdict. We get the preamble first explaining the background of the matter. Reminder this is an appeal on penalty only, that penalty being a 3 week suspension. O’Brien reads out Cain’s submission that he felt Kerr was placing him in danger, […]
