Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Romero Britto is world famous Brazilian/American artist who has sold millions of prints of his ‘pop art fused with cubism’ style paintings, designed postage stamps for the United Nations, and designed sets for the Super Bowl half time show. This year he was commissioned to design the official artwork of the Kentucky Derby, to be […]
Toni Austin has been charged by the QRIC Stewards with providing them false or misleading information in relation to the Birdsville jigger affair. This perfidy occurred some months ago. Last Saturday Toni Austin won a share of the $116 000 first prize cheque for her horse Echo Point winning the Country Cups Challenge at Doomben. […]
Archie Why hasn’t Gerald Ryan been charged or or barred from racing his horses in Victoria? The racing integrity unit has conducted its interviews with his former employees and let’s say just one employee said he was assaulted isn’t that enough for him to be barred from VIC and stewards to reopen the investigation? What […]
Todd Austin trained Echo Point until Ric McMahon got with the jigger that they he wanted him to use in trackwork on ‘one of ‘ his Birdsville Cup runners. I use the inverted commas because not only one Cup runner was jiggered, both were. The photographer just didn’t catch the other one in her photos. […]
Stewards have slapped the husband and wife duo of Todd and Toni Austin, along with jockey Ric McMahon with a string of charges relating to the alleged Birdsville Cup jigger scandal from August this year. Stewards allege the trio were involved in the scandal ahead of the famous bush meeting on August 30, when a […]
There is a real problem in the jockey ranks when you hold a TAB meeting with a maximum of 9 acceptors in any race on the card, and you can’t get enough hoops to ride the horses. That’s exactly what happened at Rockhampton on Saturday afternoon, when six of the horses on the six-race card […]
So how does this work? Paul Van Gestel – we will call him PVG – is the son of the gallops trainer Mike Van Gestel, and brother of the former Chief Steward Marc. In October 2020 PVG was a horse trainer himself, although not much of one. He had two runners that month at Hawkesbury, […]
The 12Y0 veteran galloper Hard Stride stepped out in the Country Stampede at Doomben today. I’m not sure if the horse has got a penchant for Diana Ross hit songs or whether his trainer was just confused, but the one thing I do know is that the QRIC Stewards aren’t doing their job very well. […]
Murdoch KC and the Sunshine Band – his client Todd Austin and patrons – have been going after Mt Isa bookie Graham Saunders at the jigger inquiry, accusing him of funding Ric McMahon’s legal defence, with the obvious objective being to shift blame for the jigger use away from Austin and solely onto McMahon and […]
IMPOSING BEAU – Due to a clerical error some gear publications displayed the gelding as wearing both winkers and blinkers. The correct gear changes- Winkers off, Blinkers on. Near the 1100m was checked to avoid the heels of MY ODDETTE which wasn’t completely clear. Jockey R Wiggins the rider of MY ODDETTE was reprimanded as […]
