Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It’s news to me that jockey Chris Whiteley had married fellow rider Wanderon D’Avila, or that he had adopted the Brazilian bred hoop’s last name. But I am glad that Australia allows people who want to pledge their life long commitment to each other to fulfill their dreams. I am all for it. Let love […]
It seems the QRIC staff photographs are like their Stewards Reports. No-one seems to double check them. And thus they end up upside down. Oops. Celebrate Our State. Hmm. Is that really a good idea? Editor’s Note We make no criticism of the staff member holding the sign. Or of the person who took the […]
Rule AHR90A – Trainer Licence (2.6) An applicant for a trainer’s licence Grade A must have satisfactorily completed all training modules applicable to a trainer’s licence Grade B and held such licence for not less than 12 months unless the Controlling Body decides otherwise. We told you last week about how QLD trot trainer Ryan […]
Do you recall the bad fall at Townsville in February in which Bubba Tilley and Graham Kliese hit the deck? The fall that caused Bubba to break his collarbone and Kliese his wrists? The one we blamed on the crazily large field sizes from the 1000m start? Bubba and Kliese Survive the Fall – But […]
Archie You are wrong about the Stewards inspection at Wondai. I was there. Steward Simon Fletcher didn’t just drive the car around the track an hour before the first. He got out multiple times and poked a measuring stick into the track. Testing I don’t know what. He alighted from the car and proudly displayed […]
Bailey Wheeler was excused for accepting a mount in race 1 at Eagle Farm yesterday that he couldn’t ride, the Stewards say for acceptable reasons. Five hours later Wheeler turns up at Toowoomba and has four rides. Toowoomba is only a 1 hour and 40 minute drive from Eagle Farm, and if you don’t have […]
Twenty minutes after our story about the major handicapping error in race 4 at Townsville today was published, QRIC issued the above tweet on its official X account acknowledging the mistake and advising punters who hadn’t already read it here that it had happened. A few minutes later the tweet disappeared, presumably having been removed […]
I am not sure whether to describe what went on at yesterday’s non-TAB meeting at Wondai in QLD as a tragedy or a farce. It was probably both, and there but for the grace of God could have been a whole lot worse. A runner in the first race fell. Henry’s Blade was its name, […]
Can anyone tell me what Matt Elkins did different in this race at Albion Park yesterday to Angus Garrard than what Garrard did to Elkins in the race that we wrote about at the same track on Saturday night? It looked exactly the same to me. The outcome was different though. No action was taken […]
Angus Garrard is driving the horse 3-back the outside in the red white and blue. Matt Elkins is on the horse coming around Garrard three-wide. Garrard comes out under Elkins illegally and cannons into him, sending him sliding sideways from the impact and causing his horse to break into a wild gallop and lose all […]
