Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Everyone’s favorite North QLD jockey and successful self-represented litigant Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day didn’t have a very good one at the Cairns races yesterday. You never do when you cop two suspensions in the same race within the space of half a furlong. Grubby was on the leader. He gave poor old Ryan Wiggins on the […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (‘QRIC’) has been advised that a licensed racehorse trainer has been arrested and charged by Queensland Police for criminal offences. QRIC Commissioner Catherine Clark advised that the participant’s licence has been suspended immediately. “QRIC’s role is to maintain the integrity of racing. Therefore, the trainer has been stood down from […]
There were 3 Stewards rostered on at Saturday’s race meeting in Clermont. Two of them came in one car from Rockhampton 370km away. The other came in a separate from Longreach, a 427km one-way drive. All 3 stewards stayed overnight and got accommodation, meals and a travel allowance. Each of them were paid Sunday overtime […]
Watching Hallside Martini win the 4th at Doomben today made me think of something. What would happen if the winner threw a positive swab, other than the obvious? Hallside Martini is owned by the QRIC Commissioner’s parents you. I very much doubt that it would ever happen because the Clark’s are really good people. I […]
Yesterday in a decision set to send shockwaves through QLD racing circles, apprentice jockey Darren Evans was cleared by the Racing Appeals Panel of responsibility for a fall at Aramac in August that resulted in rider Tim Brummel suffering concussion that has kept him out the saddle ever since. We are told that not a […]
11 November 2024 The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) has today suspended a jockey’s licence pending the outcome of an ongoing Queensland Police investigation. The participant’s licence has been suspended under the powers of Australian Rule of Racing 23(a) until the court matter is finalised. QRIC Acting Deputy Commissioner Kim Kelly said “One of QRIC’s […]
The QRIC have placed an interim suspension on the trainer, owner and breeder licenses of prominent QLD greyhound identity Peter O’ Reilly after his greyhound Get Carter threw a positive swab to the banned substance Hydrocortisone when running third in a heat of the Queensland Sprint Championships at Albion Park in August. It’s an outrageously […]
Athletics NSW call all competitive events off once the temperature hits 40 degrees, and for good reason too because humans are most susceptible to heat exhaustion or heat stroke once the mercury rises about that level, which poses a real risk to their health and safety when performing vigorous activities, particularly outdoors in the unshaded […]
Ballard the lawyer with the yank accent kicks off the QRIC’s case. She said that Grubby’s fine was well inside the range, and quotes a number of cases to support her argument. Then she starts raving. Judge O’Brien jumps in. doesn’t seem to know who Grubby is. He keeps calling him jockey Butler. O’Brien tells […]
Darryl Griffiths kicks off. He says that Grubby was definitely sighted at the track at around 1pm and then took off. In many years of Stewarding he had never had a rider leave without telling the Stewards. Griffiths then raises the elephant in the room. He tells the panel that the booze bus arrived and […]
