Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Painting hung on peterprofit.com office wall Murdoch KC makes a concession, one clearly designed to overcome submissions made by Matthew Stirling that it would take Noel Callow another 2 months after his disqualification ended to get fully race fit so that he could again start earning what he did before the spell. The Magic Man […]
What you see at the top and above are notices that the Queensland branch of the Australian Jockeys Association sent out to its members late last week. Panic stations have set in among the ranks of local riders. The QRIC are auditing all Health Assessment Reports that have been submitted by jockeys. As we told […]
It seems at least another 3 racehorses formerly trained by Brett Cavanough out of the property of disqualified participant Todd Austin have been transferred. To Nobody. As far as I am aware the mysterious Mr Nobody doesn’t have a trainer’s license, which does not seem to make him unique out in the west of Queensland […]
It appears that we may not have heard the last of the doctored Health Assessment Report scandal yet. The mail is that up to a dozen jockeys are going to be charged for submitting bodged up reports, including at least one big name rider. A person in addition to Jeff McKay is said to have […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) has observed a noticeable increase in reports of poor behaviour through its Report Something hotline. Much of this misconduct occurs between participants themselves, though incidents involving poor behaviour toward non-racing individuals have also been recorded. The range of negative behaviours includes intimidation, verbal abuse, and social bullying, all of […]
Anyone watching the last race at Mackay on Thursday afternoon could see that something catastrophic had happened to the Phillip Pengelly trained Thunder Mania, which was pulled up at around the 700m mark after clearly going amiss. The horse had been sweating up like a pig before the race, which was unusual for it (my […]
AHRR.66(e) A horse may be disqualified from a race or placed in a lower finishing position in a race if a horse races on the inside of a marker post or if its sulky or part thereof goes on the inside of a marker post How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? […]
See that man (circled) behind the barriers watching the start of race 5 at Mt Isa last Thursday? You know, the race we wrote about yesterday in which two runners were loaded into the wrong gates and started from transposed barriers? The one after which the Club Starter was shown vision of the start and […]
Following Noel Callow’s (quite rightful in our view) license stand down after being charged with conduct prejudicial to racing in the wake of the publication of a video of the jockey hurling vile racist abuse at an indigenous man, many in the industry are asking questions about whether double standards apply in QLD racing when […]
Story by Matt Nicholls. Blind Freddy could see that it was a false start and should have been called a no-race. But it took the stewards about an hour to draw the same conclusion following this year’s failed Hughenden Cup in what turned out to be farcical scenes. Firstly, let’s go back to the beginning. […]
