Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Abandoned race meetings in South East Queensland could be a thing of the past as Racing Queensland looks to implement an all-weather track procedure from October. The recent construction of a Polytrack circuit at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club would allow abandoned turf meetings in SEQ to be transferred to the synthetic “after considering the […]
There are two TAB thoroughbred meetings being run this week in Central Queensland. One is on Tuesday at Mackay, the other is on Friday at Rockhampton. Both are provincial race meetings. They each carry the same prizemoney. But there is one big difference, and it is an absolutely inexplicable one. The Rockhampton meeting is restricted […]
This steer here by Brad Pengelly on the horse that starts the replay in 3rd last place in the red and white was the hottest ride in the world. If Pengelly didn’t hook this then I am Mick Dittman. Watch it side on first. Now have a look at the head on. Do you see […]
It’s pretty hard to argue with the Steward’s decision on the protest in the Mornington Guineas. Beau Mertens on the first past the post horse Sharp Response clearly came out on top of Ollie on Jungle Magnate. Mertens also looked to have deliberately used his elbows on Oliver, and to have intentionally smashed his rival’s […]
It appears that the controversial former NZ Racing Chief Steward transplanted to Tasmania Ross Neal is a leopard who takes his arrogant spots with him wherever he goes. The Tasmanian’s are calling him the Hangman, for it appears that whenever a licensee rings him with a tricky question, rather than answer it he simply hangs […]
I reckon this protest decision is dead wrong. The winner Brillar is in the Godolphin blue. Willie Pike’s mount Givara that protested is in the red, black and white colours. Verbek in white is the meat in the sandwich. Take a look at the side-on first. The margin is skinny isn’t it? In another stride […]
Dual code superstar John ‘JC’ Catton won the $500 000 QTIS Jewel at the Gold Coast on Saturday with his sensational two-year-old filly She’ssgottheboom. Reports are that a huge night was had that carried on well into Sunday morning. At lunchtime the very next day JC, who has clearly got the constitution of an Ox, […]
These clerical errors just keep on happening under Chief Steward (Darling Downs) Clayton ‘Crayons’ Warren’s watch. Yesterday we told you about the four mistakes at Toowoomba on Saturday night. Today we tell you about the two at Chinchilla on Monday, the very next meeting held in the district. Crayons has got the race to race […]
It appears from the news filtering in that Nathan Day’s disqualification definitely relates to cash sums passed by the jockey to the Clerk of the Scales, former jockey Wally Welburn, and the track manager cum starter Trent Williams. The transactions were apparently caught on CCTV cameras that had recently been installed in the weigh in […]
(4) If a rider breaches subrule (3), the rider’s horse may be disqualified from that race unless that contact was justified by extraordinary circumstances. Does anyone remember this rule? They used to enforce it one, a long, long time ago. These days it is totally ignored. Jockeys come back to scale after a win and […]
