Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We’re back, and Judge O’Brien kicks off the reading the Panel’s decision. O’Brien says that Huxtable has submitted that the penalty is excessive and he should only get a fine. He recounts Huxtable’s submission about not having ridden much on the Poly. Then he commends the jockey on the way he has presented his case. […]
Justin Huxtable, who is self represented, is appealing against a 7-day suspension he incurred for failing to ride his mount out to the finish at the Sunshine Coast on 11 August, and thus costing it 4th place by his actions. Huxtable starts off badly. He opens his submissions by saying he’s only ever been in […]
Telephone betting with licensed on-course bookmakers in Victorian is permitted in accordance with the conditions set by the Racing Minister contained in a Ministerial Approval that has been issued under Section 4 of the Racing Act, and only under those terms. The Ministerial Approval permitting telephone betting, and detailing the requirements that must be met […]
It just wouldn’t feel right if we went a day’s racing in Queensland without something going wrong. Yesterday it was a winner being incorrectly declared a scratching. Who knows just what it might be today? An elephant will probably escape from the circus and win at Ipswich. Oh no, that can’t happen. It’s too far […]
Our Brisbane correspondent sent us this report of the J. Taylor appeal hearing today …. Introductions. Piece of paper handed to chairman. Chairman sets aside stewards decision and replaced with a Not Guilty verdict. Before a word of evidence is even heard. Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys. J Murdoch KC wins by first-round […]
As you can see in our story republished below, in July last year jockey Isabella Teh was hit with a 26 day suspensionafter being found guilty of causing interference in a race at Townsville that resulted in rider K.Quilty suffering a fall. Teh lodged an appeal but it never got heard, for after realising that […]
A funny thing happened after we published out story yesterday about Racing Queensland having accepted NSW trainer Brett Cavanough’s nomination to race his galloper Burdekin for the Battle of the Bush qualifier on the weekend, even though the horse was ineligible to run under the conditions of the race. Within hours Burdekin’s nomination had disappeared. […]
Once upon a time the jockeys who rode in central Queensland lived in central QLD, but a combination of cheap air fares and a diminishing pool of riders in the country changed all that. Now days a large bulk of the jockeys riding in the region are mercenaries from Brisbane or one of the coasts, […]
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 […]
