Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The KPMG report into its Best Practice Review of QRIC hasn’t been publicly released yet, but obviously the Commissioner and his sidekicks that most people deem responsible for the issues plagueing the integrity body, and by extension the racing industry, have got a copy. Their response? Improve their style of management so that the operation […]
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 South Australian Racing Appeals Tribunal has overturned Todd Balfour’s 5-year disqualification for pulling down the pants of a Steward and exposing him naked from the waist down, and replaced it with a 4.5 month DQ, which includes time already served. The Tribunal characterised Balfour’s actions as an assault, describing what he did as inappropriate […]
Have you ever heard that in a race call before? I don’t think I had until I heard it in a trot race at Dubbo tonight. Know what it means? I didn’t. It means a long neck. After my night on the punt I need half a dozen. https://magpile.com/kingbrown/#:~:text=Kingbrown%20is%20West%20Australian%20slang,like%20a%20good%2040%20should.
Isn’t it a great boost for QLD country racing that James McDonald has elected to drive up to Blackall for a mount on Saturday in preference to riding in the Group 1 Champagne and All Aged Stakes. It would be fantastic, if only it were true. Sadly however it’s not. RISA – which should know […]
David Fowler is the principal thoroughbred caller for Radio TAB, taking the position upon Wayne Wilson’s retirement last August. David, who is a keen form student and punter, has enjoyed a lifetime involvement in the racing media. His personal blog, ‘My Call’, appears exclusively on HRO. I think the penny has finally dropped and I’m […]
Everyone is talking about the fatigue and safety issues involved with racing gallopers on a Saturday night, and quite rightly too because it really will require jockeys to work far too many hours in a week, and to ride and then drive home afterward bone tired. What industry folk haven’t quite got their heads around […]
By Ray See After recent controversial protest decisions at Beaudesert and the Gold Coast, which are now to be investigated by former Victorian Chief Steward Des Gleeson, a far less serious issue has come to light from the race meeting at Winton on April 6. In the second race at the meeting, a humble 800 […]
The $64,000 question on the lips of most owners and trainers at the coalface of Queensland’s embarrassing track issues is why no-one seems to be prepared to identify the elephant in the room. They want to know if no-nonsense Racing Queensland CEO Jason Scott raised this contentious topic during his crisis meeting with curators on […]
QRIC Steward Sharon Coulthard and her cousin Karl A week or two ago we told you the story of the female jockey who went the bash on one of her rival hoops after a race out at Longreach. What we missed in the story was the famous connection. The Chief Steward on the day was […]
