Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Doubting Dan was spot on with his markets. The horse who raced four times in fourteen day and twice in the past three is dead. And despite being on the immediate back up, no there was no pre-race veterinary inspection undertaken to make sure that she was fit and well. That’s first class animal welfare […]
Why would trainer Brett Cavanough enter his horse Indifference at Alpha in Queensland one day and at Coffs Harbour in NSW the next? After all it’s a 16 hour drive between the two tracks, and Cavanough trains his horses out of Scone (or so we’re told). He wouldn’t have entered Indifference in the Alpha Cup […]
It Maybe Smart to call your mare by Smart Missile out of Maybe The One that name, but it certainly isn’t smart to race her 4 time in 14 days, the last one off a two day backup, because you might find that your jockey will end up in hospital and your horse will never […]
This is the Stewards report for The Hayden at Albion Park on Saturday night. That was the race we showed you where Peter McMullen broke the rules to try to block Grant Dixon’s horse Call To Order from coming up the sprint lane. Penalties in feature events over the Winter Carnival are supposed to attract […]
THE RULES 167. (1) From the time the sprint lane becomes available for racing purposes, the leading horse closest to the inside running line and any horse in advance of and outside that horse or having passed that horse on its outside shall not enter any part of the sprint lane. (2) In the event of the […]
What you see above is the starting point penalty as detailed in the QRIC Penalty Guidelines for a breach of rule AHHR.167(1), which is entering the Sprint Lane. As you can also see there is no starting point penalty for a breach of rule AHRR.167(2). That is because the two parts of the rule […]
Peter McMullen is a protected species. On Saturday night he was protected from a potential 4-week or greater suspension that would have sidelined him from driving for almost the entire Winter Carnival. McMullen was protected by being charged with the wrong offence, or more correctly by being charged with only half of the correct offence. […]
Was anyone surprised when Kobe Rocks turned up to the Longreach meeting lame on Monday and had to be scratched? After all we are talking about a horse here who got beaten almost 10 lengths first up and then tailed out a long last beaten 22 lengths at the run after that. He should have […]
Something seems to be afoot in the Nick Walsh camp. His best galloper Hell was yesterday transferred into the care of the horse basher and doper trainer Tom Smith. Walsh’s recent winner Daimyo was too. Both horses have different connections so it’s unlikely to be due to an ownership dispute. More likely it has to […]
We have recently highlighted a number of curious (to say the least) drives by leading QLD reinsman Peter McMullen, and here in race 6 at Albion Park yesterday is another one. McMullen is driving the Kiwi import La Miki, who is having its first start in Australia and has blown in the betting from $2.40 […]
