So What Are the QRIC Going to Do to Keep the Alleged Stabbing Victim and the Witnesses Safe?
We didn’t want to write it for legal reasons last week when we broke the story, but everyone now knows that it is jockey Sariah Champkin who has been charged with one count of assault occasioning bodily harm on a fellow licensee and another of willful damage by Queensland Police following the alleged stabbing incident […]
The Protostar is Set to Turn QLD Harness Racing On Its Head
How great a concept is the Protostar? It’s a race for 2YO’s worth half a million dollars run during the QLD winter carnival. That money is more than double the stakes that 2YO’s can race for anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere, making it a massive target for trainers all around Australia and New Zealand, and […]
Elton Asks the Question About How a Rider Was Allowed to Fail to Weigh In
Archie, Attached is an article written by racecaller/journalist Tony McMahon. It is checked and correct. Now I agree the responsibility to weigh in falls on the jockey. However, what were Stewards doing? The chairman of the meeting was 22yo Hayden Gillett. Gillett is still listed on the QRIC staff chart as a cadet (and was […]
Official Reports Surely Should Be True
What a joke it was at the Barcaldine Races. After the first race jockey A Butler took over 10 minutes to return to scale then weighed in hunched over on scales. He was completely exhausted. Despite that, Butler was then allowed to weigh out for the second race. It was only when the horses were […]
Why Are the QRIC Refusing to Intervene to Keep the Alleged Victim of a Serious Violent Offence Safe From Harm?
The mail out of Tabletop Mountain is that the racing licensee who is alleged to have stabbed a fellow participant in the back with a pair of scissors during a dispute at a property across the road from Clifford Park on Thursday and it is claimed threatened to slit her throat was arrested by police […]
Are Tabcorp Kidding?
See how the TAB has put the barrier for each of the runners in Monday’s Adelaide Cup in brackets next to their names? Notice how they all miraculously coincide with the saddlecloth being sported by each horse? What are the odds of that happening in a 17 horse race? 20 922 789 888 000 to […]
Allegations of Serious Assault Across the Road From the Toowoomba Track
The rumor mill is running hard and fast about a serious incident of assault across the road from Clifford Park yesterday involving two female jockeys, one a current QLD apprentice who was working for Paul Wallace, the other a former rider who now works for the Currie stable. Details of how and why an altercation […]
The Global Decline in Foal Crops – By Our International Correspondent Will Jones
• The big picture. The latest confirmed global figures from multiple sources up to the end of 2021 for the 62 countries breeding Thoroughbreds reveal 84,213 foals were registered that year, a decrease of 32% from a peak of 123,568 in 2005. • North America’s foal crop, the largest numerically worldwide, has been declining for […]
It’s Not Always Dark at 5 O’Clock – The Greed Driven Problem Plaguing Breeders Around the World – Part 1
Story by Will Jones, author of the seminal racing tome The Black Horse is Dying, and much appreciated and loved friend of and international correspondent for this site Coolmore Stud is, naturally, the biggest draw on the Irish Stallion Trail, a golden two day opportunity every January for the last ten years for studs around […]