Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
The KPMG report into its Best Practice Review of QRIC hasn’t been publicly released yet, but obviously the Commissioner and his sidekicks that most people deem responsible for the issues plagueing the integrity body, and by extension the racing industry, have got a copy. Their response? Improve their style of management so that the operation […]
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, […]
On Friday night there were only 6 runners swabbed on the nine race card. Look at the prices of them (the favorite not swabbed in the race is in brackets next to it). R1 – $8 ($2.20) R2 -$126 ($3.10) R4 – $151 ($1.90) R5 – $23 ($3.20) R6 – $51 ($2.30) R8 – $26 […]
Angus Garrard is an experienced driver who has steered home more than 750 winners. He drove straight over a marker peg in the first race and sent it flying. Garrard didn’t even get a reprimand. Layne Dwyer is an inexperienced 17yo kid who was having his first drive at a metro meeting last night. He […]
Enterprise Success was supposed to wear blinkers in the 5th race at Gympie on Saturday. It didn’t because the horse became fractious and put its head down in the barriers. When this incident occurred Enterprise Success’s bridle became separated from the horse, and it was required to be replaced before Apprentice Youngberry could remount and […]
By Ray See After recent controversial protest decisions at Beaudesert and the Gold Coast, which are now to be investigated by former Victorian Chief Steward Des Gleeson, a far less serious issue has come to light from the race meeting at Winton on April 6. In the second race at the meeting, a humble 800 […]
Archie, Do you really think Commissioner Gillard ordered the Des Gleeson review into the Beaudesert protest? And where did the Gold Coast decision come into it? Might be Chief Steward Adams taking out the competition too. Although you’d have to think Adams himself might be at risk of being on the bread line come October […]
