Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This above is the QRIC definition of an industry participant, as expressed in its newly released adverse weather policy. It’s bullshit in my opinion. If you watch the footy grand final that does mean you are an AFL or NRL participant? I don’t think so. Just like watching the 100m sprint final at the Olympics […]
The Victorian Racing Tribunal has handed gallops trainer John Leek Jr – who at age 72 seems a bit old for the last part of the name – a 3-year disqualification for attempting to drench one of his jumpers by the side of the road on the way to the races. There is no doubt […]
See jockey Bailey Wheeler on the horse in the red and white stick his right arm out and push fellow rider Tahlia Fenton back in, just as she was about to come around the grey and take her rightful run to its outside? That wasn’t careless by Wheeler. It was deliberate. Foul riding it was […]
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 […]
