Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Front Page’s lucky 13 owners have shelled out $90 grand to get a run as a late entrant into the Straddie. Good on ’em. It’s there money and you gotta be in it to win it. Hope reigns supreme. But they’ve done their dough before the race even starts. Front Page wouldn’t get 1400m running […]
Rogan Josh famously came out of Western Australia to win the 1999 Melbourne Cup and give James Bartholomew Cummings his eleventh win in Australia’s most famous race. Rogan (without the Josh) is a modern day three-year-old trained by Cliff Brown in Victoria. Josh Fleming is the Brisbane race caller who was recently deposed from the […]
Hi Archie I’m sure you’ve heard about the drama’s with Belmont races being abandoned and then meetings transferred to Pinjarra. Someone involved in Racing told me today that 1. Racing club official were strongly advised to use an underground borer when laying the services to the new curators shed located in the centre of the […]
QRIC currently reviewing payout error 04 June 2025 The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) is aware of a discrepancy between the official minor placings and associated dividends paid out for Race 2 at Doomben on Wednesday, 4 June 2025. The TAB paid out on the wrong numbers. Second was paid as third and vice versa. […]
David Fowler called the placings wrong in the controversial race at Doomben yesterday that the TAB and bookies are paying out on the wrong results. What else would you expect? To think Tabcorp/Sky chose this chook over Josh Fleming. Decision making at its very finest. Not. Editor’s note – Provoker finished third
Part 6 Results and payouts 59 Result of event (1) Subject to sections 60 to 69, 80 and 81, for the purpose of making payouts or paying dividends, the result of an event is the result announced, at the conclusion of the event, by the entity controlling the event. (2) Subsection (1) applies- (a) even […]
The mainstream media all falling over themselves to praise the decision to reschedule the Kingsford Smith Cup to this Saturday rather than run it mid-week on the Wednesday today. Emma Freedman and Caitlin McDonald (nee Mallyon) were gushing in their praise for the decision makers, declaring moving the race back a week a wonderful move […]
No person shall administer or apply or cause to be administered or applied to any horse which has been entered in any race, or have in his possession within the confines of a racetrack or racetrack stables, sheds, or buildings on racetrack grounds where horses are kept which are eligible to race over a racetrack […]
We told you Rockhampton trainer Tom Smith was a koala and we were right. The penalty handed down to him on 30 April for a cobalt positive proves it. It’s not the 12 month suspension that is in issue, or the fact that it was suspended. The issue is the way in which the sentence […]
Jockey Melissa Campbell was badly injured in a fall at Innisfail last December when her mount Ancient Style collapsed under her, and she and hasn’t ridden in a race since. One would have expected an inquiry into the reasons for Ancient Style’s collapse and Campbell’s corresponding fall would have been conducted as a matter of […]
