Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Townsville horse Sosthenes never appeared to be the soundest galloper on the Townsville strand. As a 2yo the gelding by Worthy Cause out of Never Despair had one trial in March last year finishing 2nd in a three horse field, and then wast put away for 210 days. He came back as an early 3yo […]
Trainer Kevin Kemp copped one on the chin for entering his galloper Denman Blue into a heat of the Burnett to Beach series in which it wasn’t qualified to compete. Racing QLD missed it’s ineligibity completely, and allowed it to run. Someone later noticed, and dobbed Kemp and his horse in. It was disqualified from […]
Race 3: JULIA CREEK BUTCHER MEMORIAL RATINGS BAND 0 – 60 HANDICAP 1100 M LE WEASEL – lay out throughout; raced in restricted room for several strides near the 400 metres when inside TRINITY MISSILE which became unbalanced and shifted in when making the turn. TRINITY MISSILE – had difficulty negotiating the […]
There has been a most unusual rash of photo finish cameras failing at country QLD race meetings recently, so many that it appears to be fast becoming an epidemic. In the past 10 days alone the cameras have failed to work during finished at the meetings at Maxwellton Blackall Bowen Dalby Why is this happening? […]
Nez Zealand’s new $55 million track at Ellerslie is an unmitigated disaster. That has been evident from opening day in January, and it just looks to be getting worse after yesterday’s meeting had to be abandoned due to safety concerns after only 6 races had been run, making it the 2nd meeting in a row […]
A number of Queensland jockeys are known to be very upset about the late cancellation of the meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, in circumstances where the weather forecast showed very early in the day that increasingly heavy rainfall would almost certainly render the troubled track at Caloundra unsafe to race. It has been raining […]
The QRIC Stewards pre-race swabbed just 6 runners on the 9 race card at Eagle Farm yesterday, and swabbed only the winner after each race and no other horse. That’s a total of 15 swabs taken all up, at a race meeting carrying prizemoney of $895 000. Rockhampton hosted a 12 race card on Thursday, […]
This is the head on Steward’s footage of the final stages of yesterday’s Frank Packer Plate at Randwick.. The outside horse won by 0.1 lengths, which is a nose in my book and a short-half head in Darren Flindell’s. Either way, it’s a bee’s dick. The outside horse came in a smidgen and they scraped […]
TIMELINE 28 Nov 2023 Murrihy report delivered to the Tasmanian Government. Findings of welfare neglect, race fixing and wholesale doping are made against Ben Yole, Tim Yole, Mitch Ford and Nathan Ford. These remain secret for the next 2 months. 31 Jan 2024 Murrihy Report released publicly. The industry and the public are in uproar. […]
Cocaine use appears to have been rife among those attending the Grand National, a Telegraph Sport investigation into racing’s “Peaky Blinders” drugs problem has found. The class-A substance was present in dozens of toilet cubicles examined during this year’s festival, despite organisers declaring beforehand anyone carrying illegal drugs would be denied entry to Aintree. The apparent scale of cocaine use […]
