Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How hard is it to read a scale of deductions table correctly? Prideofthebigfish (what a name) was $4.00 in the betting when it was pulled out of race 5 at Boweb as a late scratching on the weekend. Unless I am totally blind rather than just partuially vision impaired, that should have meant deductions of […]
There is a wild rumor sweeping out from the Breakfast Creek bunker that the QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard – who was unusually absent from work yesterday – has yesterday handed in his resignation. The whisper is that Gillard was recently issued with a show cause notice in relation to issues unspecified, but presumably stemming from […]
ATA has addressed the issue again with RQ/QRIC – horses that dual accept and at least one of the races is a Feature (any race $75k or more), trainers have until 5pm on accept day to remove the horse from the Feature race otherwise it MUST run in the feature (even if an emergency in […]
A number of trainers sent us the advice republished in the story below that they received from the ATA (QLD) branch about the dual acceptance rule at the gallops, seeking our opinion. It took us a few reads to get our head around the rule, but once we understood it properly we had to say […]
Trainer David Van Dyke accepted his smart mare My Snow Queen to start in two races on Saturday, the Listed Chief De Beers and a Benchnark 85. She drew a place as emergency in both, 3rd emergeny in the BM85 and 4th emergency in the Chief De Beers. The Chief De Beers was a feature […]
Southern Front finished tailed off first-up at Townsville on the 17th of May, and was beaten 114.84 lengths. It was vetted after the race and no significant abnormalities were found. SOUTHERN FRONT – eased down in the final straight and was distanced at the finish. A post-race veterinary examination of SOUTHERN FRONT revealed no significant […]
Remember the days when Stewards used to wear suits to the race and polish their shoes? I don’t know when the rot set in and the standards of dress declined, but these days an official’s attire appears to be optional of their choosing. The Steward you see in the picture on the right is Fiona […]
Daniel Aurisch was once the rising star of the Queensland stewarding ranks and was widely tipped to one day become the Chief. Then he hit some health problems that caused him to drop out of front runnning contention and, alongside other reasons relating to an internal management pro-Josh Adams team, saw him miss out on […]
The Stewards report from Townsville on Friday was instructive as to which jockeys not to book if you want someone to ride your horse. Amanda Thomson accepted 5 mounts at the Mt Isa meeting on Saturday the 24th of April but didn’t turn up to take her mounts. Thomson was then stood down from riding […]
The Chief Steward Josh Adams was the Chairman of the Panel at the Eagle Farm meeting last Saturday. That means that he was in charge of signing off on the official Stewards report. The one that recorded the Tony Gollan trained Blue Spinel as having raced 3-wide for the majority of the race. Blue Spinel […]
