Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
They play the video, It is as clear as day that Jill comes racing in and king hits Russo from behind while he is being held by a security guard. Boom. Straight right. Some say Grimson is a hard man. Bullshit I say. Every hard man I know would have knocked Russo into Disneyland if […]
Murdoch KC is struggling now. He has submitted that a fine is appropriate and has been shot down. Desperate and drowning, he throws up an inference that its the trot clubs fault for letting people piss up for hours after the race. Yeah good Jim. Then he compares and contrasts Jill’s king hit on Russo […]
Magic is now doing what he does best, picking the rules apart. Where he is going with it is to build a case that Jill has been charged under the wrong rule, and is not good for the charge as laid. He brings up a WA case, and then raises a case involving the mad […]
Murdoch KC moves into his favourite game, the loophole. He starts banging on about what a racecourse is, and what relating to racing means in the rules. Then he moves to arguing the semantics about who looks after what, the QRIC or Racing Queensland. They are split controlling bodies with different powers he basically says. […]
I honestly can’t recall what it says about that he replies. Copley is good. You don’t become a KC if you aren’t. He asks Jill if he said that he hit Russo. The answer of course is yes. Copley is reading Farquharson showed him the video. It showed Jill hitting Jill in the back of […]
Murdoch asks his client about Jack Callaghan getting bashed. Jill says that Jack is a young kid who doesn’t look for trouble. He says he saw him being bashed by a bloke, and was shocked. He admits to hitting the victim Russo. Grimson admits that when he got back to Sydney he sent Russo a […]
Jill’s appeal has just kicked off. He has Jim Murdoch KC representing him. QRIC has a barrister who I think is Michael Copley KC. Grimson has turned up in a shirt buttoned up to the collar, but no tie. He looks like one of the Pet Shop Boys. The mobile arm flies and we are […]
TWO trainers are at the centre of an investigation after a horse backed from 28-1 into evens won easily. Reports claim betting patterns are being looked into after trainer Ken Budds’ Anyway won at Downpatrick in Ireland on Monday. Interviewed afterwards, the relatively unknown trainer told Racing TV he had backed the horse and said: […]
Last night we shared our extreme scepticism about the prospect to the topweight Bollente starting in the Birdsville Cup, and expressed an opinion that the horse was only there to compress the weights for the stablemate and would be scratched after the declaration acceptances. It has to stay until then so that the handicapper didn’t […]
Winton grazier Clarrie Hermann (pictured above) might well be 87 years old, but he has lost none of the tough cocky’s guile that has seen him running about 20 000 sheep over the 70 000 odd hectares that he owns and runs out in the town where Banjo Patterson once upon a time penned Waltzing […]
