Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dear QRIC I see your advert for a Senior Steward, and note that it is listed under the occupational classification of Journalism and Writing. Although I myself never knew that senior racing integrity roles were designed for racing writers, given recent events that demonstrate that your current incumbents in the job don’t know what day […]
See the three embargoes placed on horses by the Stewards after the Bowen race meeting on Saturday 11 April? Well they might have been, but they weren’t. As I write this it is Sunday the 19th of April. Not a single one of the embargoes has been put in place. See below. This is very, […]
Can you see the mistake? If you can’t pick up the newspaper, or grab a calendar, and check the date. The Stewards obviously didn’t. Friday was the 17th. Saturday was the 18th. It’s the little things that count. Like knowing what day of the week it is.
Remember we told you about the great rock n’ roll Tom Hedley weight rort with Valenki a few days ago? The one where a horse of Hedley’s named Valenki was entered in race 4 at Cairns on Thurday to compress the weights and then scratched an hour after acceptances? How To Compress the Weights in […]
She’s Speedy was $3.30 in the betting when scratched at the barrier from the last race in Cairns yesterday. Every fool in racing knows that the horse’s withdrawal should have triggered deductions from the face value of the tickets for bets on runners in the race. The major bookies did. TAB and Ladbrokes took 23c […]
A hitherto healthy 4yo mare named Badlifedecision races at Mackay on the 2nd of April and goes like a busted arse. She is loaded onto a float to be transported home, slips, staggers and flips, becoming prone on the ground. The mare regains its footing, then staggers and falls again falling, becoming prone. A short […]
The race meeting at Innisfail in North QLD this weekend is in grave danger of being scrubbed. At the close of nominations the five races on the card had the following numbers: 3, 3, 5, 4, 3. In QLD you need five acceptors for a race to go ahead. As it presently stands that means 4 […]
Sunshine Coast trainer Stuart Kendrick has been fined just $5000 for his third breach of the substance rule in the past 12 months. Kendrick’s fine was for presenting his horse Savannah Gangster to race with the painkiller Meloxicam and the anti-inflammatory Flunixin in its system, the same offence that he was fined $3000 for in […]
So the punters who bet on You And I in race 5 at Eagle Farm today do so thinking that the horse is wearing blinkers and a tongue tie, because the Racing Australia and RQ websites don’t tell them otherwise. The horse’s trainer Jackson Morris doesn’t present the horse to race with either. While I […]
Good afternoon, I refer to the article ‘So How and Why Did It Drop Dead? – We Will Never Know Now Will We’ published on your website on 17 March 2026. So How and Why Did It Drop Dead? – We Will Never Know Now Will We? Some matters in the publication require address. Firstly, I […]
