Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Poor Emily Pomfrett went to work at Gatton today and she hasn’t come home. Instead the loving young mother, partner and daughter lies in a critical condition in the ICU at the PA Hospital fighting for her life, because a horse named Wanta Willow went crazy in the mounting yard, flipped, threw, and crushed the […]
A still shot of the fall at St Mary’s on Monday Hot on the heels of the death of Orbisyn at the crossing past the winning post at Doomben comes a 7 horse pile up at the crossing at the St Mary’s trots. Now the St Mary’s track is a whole lot rougher than Doomben […]
This above is a picture of the Doomben crossing where Orbisyn died taken from the video of the race meeting 11 days before. Here are the two shots side by side. There is a massive difference isn’t there? Sure the Doomben track was a Good 3 on the 20th of December and a Slow 5 […]
Little known country NSW trainer Darren Egan has been disqualified for 2 years after pleading guilty to an array of sexual harassment offences perpetrated against 5 unnamed racing participants, presumably females. Egan, who has a 7% strike rate and hasn’t had a runner since July, was convicted of 5 racing rule charges related to his […]
The first set of lights at the top of the straight in Redcliffe are clearly out. Yet still they race on. Why are the QRIC permitting this to happen when it’s clearly dangerous? The almighty turnover dollar takes precedence over driver and horse safety. So much for welfare. Like expunge – which the QRIC should […]
Woodend Beach driver John ‘Lurch’ Dunn threw a sickie again today at Addington, once more leaving the owners, trainers, race officials and punters who rely on him well and truly in the lurch, if you pardon the pun. That’s about the 4th time in the past 18 months, which would be a case of invoking […]
Everyone in the world knows that Zac Lloyd is brilliant, but he needs to pull his head in big time, before he puts someone down. How many suspensions has Z. Lloyd had now for careless riding? I’ve lost count, but it’s a lot. Yet still he continues on, riding in breach of the rules and […]
We applaud Racing Queensland’s move to fall in line with the other States except NSW by introducing new concussion protocols that include mandatory race day stand downs and possible further 12 day stand downs for jockeys that are showing signs of concussion after race falls and other head knocks incurred at the track during races […]
Jockey Rajiv Maragh seemed headed for certain victory as his 3-year-old colt Al Basha thundered down the stretch at Belmont Park on that May afternoon in 2007. But just before crossing the finish line, Al Basha suddenly spooked and turned sharply left. Maragh fell from the saddle, getting kicked in the head on his way […]
Race 3 at Barcaldine, 10th of June 2o23. The field gets to the 100m mark. And the screen goes blank. When the vision comes back on there are people running everywhere, and ambulances racing on to the track. The reason is because jockey Robbie Fraehr had taken a terrible fall 20 metres from home, has […]
