Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Faith Elliott (pictured at top) is an apprentice jockey coach at Racing Queensland. She is also a trackwork rider licensed by the QLD Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC). Which is all kind of funny in a strange way. Funny hoo hoo, not funny ha ha. You see one aspect of Faith Elliott’s job is to set […]
Is that man in the orange working on the Gold Coast track repair who I think he is? Bill Shuck? Surely not. It was only four years ago that Shuck pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud committed when he worked as Infrastructure Operations Manager for Racing Queensland in 2014 and 2015. The frauds involved […]
Former Group 1 winning jockey Shane Scriven – Scrivo to his friends, of which there are many – attended the Magic Millions meeting today in his official capacity of coach and mentor to Queensland’s apprentice jockeys. Or that was the official line anyway. The reality is that there was only one Queensland licensed apprentice at […]
Isn’t this ironic? It’s the Carbine Club of QLD Magic Millions Luncheon yesterday, an event attended by racing luminaries from across the spectrum. At Table 2 we have a group of highly respected and reputable owners including Noel Greenhalgh. Neville Morgan and Peter Tighe. Melbourne Cup winners John and Sheila are there at Table 6 […]
We have written at length about the twice jailed compulsive gambler and all round conman Wayne Francis Innes, the man whose most recent stretch in the can related to a six-figure fraud on Racing Queensland. Innes is an inveterate thief who over the three decade course of his criminal career has shown no inkling of […]
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated – Mark Twain Namazu is not dead! Praise be for that. Trainer Ricky Vale and owner Pav Cheimrdinov have separately contacted us this morning to let us know that although their great galloper suffered a serious and career-ending injury during the race at Rockhampton yesterday, they are […]
Saturday’s fatal fall at Innisfail that resulted in the death of the horse Ancient Song and serious injury to apprentice jockey Mel Campbell might never have happened but for a series of systemic failures. For the purpose of preventing a repeat of Saturday’s tragedy these failures need to be identified and addressed. This is not […]
Racing Queensland’s decision to recommence racing at Redcliffe before the new $6 million LED lights were connected to the power probably wasn’t the brightest idea in the world was it? The comeback meeting on the triangle had to be cancelled before a single race was run. The power on the old lights went out, and […]
We predicted that there would be 17 scratchings from the Mt Isa meeting due to no jockey being available to ride them, but we were wrong. There were actually 21. Jockey Jason Hoopert unfortunately had a fall in the first and had to be taken to hospital, so given there were no riders to take […]
There are five races at Mt Isa today. The field sizes are 8, 9, 9, 9, and 12. The problem is that only six jockeys are set down to ride at the meeting. That means that there will be 17 late scratchings from the meeting for want of a rider. This should have been totally […]
