Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What is a technical issue and how does it cause two mares to be late scratched? Did their batteries run flat? Were the computer chips implanted in their heads on the blink? Was the remote control rooted? I can’t work it out. You here something new in racing every day. Pulling two mares out of […]
Things are looking grim for the day’s racing at the Sunshine Coast if the rain keeps coming. The track this morning is rated a Heavy 9, with the penotrometer reading 7.5, which means that the horse will be cutting deep into the track from the get go. Given the way the Caloundra course proper has […]
THIS PUNTER RECKONS THE ‘SULTAN’ ISN’T WORTH A ‘PEANUT’ SPEAKING of tipsters, the rising star of the Racing.com ranks – the man they call ‘The Sultan’ – copped a deserved backhander from MICK the MAD PUNTER from MELBOURNE. ‘His name is David Strehlau and he emerged from oblivion to claim fame as a great tipster with […]
Apprentice jockey Tyler Leslight’s 4-week suspension for calling rival rider Wanderson D’Avila a ‘black c**t’ has this week been reduced to a $1000 fine by the Racing Appeals Panel. In making its decision the Panel found that the sentence issued to Leslight was disproportionate to those handed down to other offenders against the rule, including […]
Archie. You’re spot on regarding the skill gap of QRIC Stewards and it does reach right to the top. Your recent articles on Jockey Isabella Teh being charged some 12 months after the incident and having that charged reviewed and withdrawn by Chief Steward Josh Adams led to Adams directing that Jockey Jason Taylor be […]
Deep Tempest is a smart David Van Dyke trained galloper with a record of 4 wins from its 11 starts. He certainly wasn’t the horse that racecaller David Fowler called looming up to win race 1 the Maiden at Eagle Farm this afternoon. That was Deep Vega, as the Rooster finally woke up and realised […]
A couple of weeks ago in Townsville the Chief Steward of North Queensland racing Darryl Griffiths gave apprentice the apprentice jockey Isabella Teh (pictured at top) a 26 day suspension for causing interference in race 4 at Cluden Park on the 19th of May, a race in which jockeys Quilty and Les Tilley fell. The […]
As you can see in our story republished below, in July last year jockey Isabella Teh was hit with a 26 day suspensionafter being found guilty of causing interference in a race at Townsville that resulted in rider K.Quilty suffering a fall. Teh lodged an appeal but it never got heard, for after realising that […]
Justice John Bowman on the Victorian Racing Tribunal’s penalty decision in the Darren Weir case is to be handed down on Friday morning. Just for a lark we though we’d frame a few markets on what sentence Weir gets. ALL IN BETTING $3.00 NO PENALTY In this scenario Weir gets no penalty over and above […]
Trainer Nick Walsh has been found blameless for the incident in which he scratched two of his three runners from a recent race at Rockampton. The betting sheets showed nothing untoward. Nothing to see. Cased closed.
