Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Back in April we told you the story of Jace McMurray’s bad behavior toward race day officials, after an incident in which he threw his saddle at the Clerk of the Scales after failing to make the weight for a mount. It’s a Game of Grams Professional Race Riding – But It’s No Excuse For […]
This is Mildura race 1. Take a look at the driver of the leader, Corey Johnson. Watch how he extends his whip out way wide of the cart. These below are rules 156 (6), (7) and (8). (6) A whip shall not be used so as to obstruct, strike or endanger another driver or horse. […]
Luke Duggan, a Toowoomba based businessman and representative football coach who holds a Bachelor of Business/Commerce degree, has lost his appeal a suspension imposed by QRIC Stewards ahead of the hearing of a charge of following to fail a Stewards direction to hand over his phone. The direction had been issued during a wide ranging […]
See the excerpt from the Stewards report of the Emerald race meeting on Monday (above), and the one below. SUMMER SIZZLING – Underwent a pre-race veterinary examination due to having not started in a race for a considerable period of time and was cleared to start. Began awkwardly. Raced keenly in the early and middle […]
Former harness racing identity Ben Sarina (pictured above) – currently warned off indefinitely, because only rapists, murderers and terrorists get minimum terms on their sentences – has won his appeal against a second disqualification imposed on him for his conduct in a private dispute between he and a then former Steward that culminated in an […]
QRIC have today (Thursday) conducted mass scale unannounced visits to trainers and racing participants at Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast and issued directions to a number of people to hand over their phones. It is believed that the following participants complied with the direction, and that their phones are now in the possession of the […]
Coffs Harbor racehorse trainer Brett Bellamy has been suspended from the sport for almost half a year after being found guilty of three counts of sexual harassment of female racing participants. His offending conduct included making remarks with sexual connotations concerning one participant’s body, engaging in sexual harassment of another female industry participant by making […]
Yesterday trainer/jockey Cheryl Rogers – whose surname does not contain a D, regardless of what the official Stewards report says – applied to ride the horse that she owns and trains Prince Carlos a half kilo overweight, claiming that the Prince is better suited to senior riders due to its racing manners. With only apprentices […]
Apprentice jockey Jace McMurray is an absolute gun. In his first full season of riding the kid who is only 19 or 20 outrode his claim, and won each of the QLD provincial apprentice title and the Gold Coast junior and senior riders crowns. McMurray has the racing world at his feet. Bar for a […]
