Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
These are the whip rules. Thou shalt: Only apply the whip and/or the rein in a wrist only flicking motion whilst holding a rein in each hand with the tip of the whip pointed forward in an action which does not engage the shoulder. Thou shalt not: Generate force by using the elbow or shoulder […]
Turbeau was never going to run in Saturday’s Cooktown Cup with 62kg on its back. He was just in there to make up the numbers and ensure that they got a field of 5 at acceptances time so the race would go ahead for owner Tom Hedley’s other runner Battle Royale. The morning after the […]
No-one can ever accuse the QRIC Stewards of being consistent. This was vividly illustrated on Melbourne Cup day when Five riders at five different Queensland tracks were pinched for failing to fully ride their mounts out to the finish line. Remarkably each received a different penalty for the exact same offence. How can that be? […]
We couldn’t find the points scoring rules and conditions for the Australian Women’s Drivers Championship held at Launceston yesterday published anywhere, so this article has been written based on the Australian Drivers Championship (ADC) rules published on the HRA website. Click to access aust-driving-champ-rules.pdf Under these rules Western Australia’s Deni Roberts (pictured) has won the […]
You need five acceptors in a field to make a race in Queensland. Should less than five horses accept to run the race is deleted from the program. If you get five and some of them are later scratched the race still goes ahead. With that in mind what do you reckon the crafty pair […]
Nathan Dawson drove the horse drawn inside of the 2nd row in race 2 at Redcliffe tonight. Rock With Nate was it’s name. It ran 4th, meaning that it earned more prizemoney than the horses that finished 5th to 8th. But it shouldn’t have. Rock With Nate should have been disqualified. The horse crossed the […]
Under the Queensland Local Rules of Racing a horse competing at a metropolitan race meeting (other than in a Group race or race 1) must be on course at least 2 hours before the advertised starting time of its race. From an integrity perspective adherence to the arrival time is extremely important, for horses that […]
Under the rules of racing once a rider presents to the jockeys room at least 45 minuted before the start time of their first ride, they are required to stay in the room until after they have completed their last ride, unless they are given permission by the Stewards to otherwise leave. There is nothing […]
ATA has addressed the issue again with RQ/QRIC – horses that dual accept and at least one of the races is a Feature (any race $75k or more), trainers have until 5pm on accept day to remove the horse from the Feature race otherwise it MUST run in the feature (even if an emergency in […]
A number of trainers sent us the advice republished in the story below that they received from the ATA (QLD) branch about the dual acceptance rule at the gallops, seeking our opinion. It took us a few reads to get our head around the rule, but once we understood it properly we had to say […]
