Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It seems that Brett Wright – the Chairman of Stewards who made the outrageously incorrect protest upheld call at Beaudesert last week – has been absent from officiating duties at any race meeting on Saturday. It’s school holidays, so perhaps Mr Wright has taken annual leave to be with the kids or grandkids during the […]
WHAT a disastrous weekend it’s been for the sport in Queensland and if Racing Minister Grace Grace hasn’t heard the increasing calls for the removal of QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard (pictured above) she must be living under a rock. Former Sunday Mail Editor and Sky News boss in Queensland, Peter Gleeson, in a stunning expose […]
1 April 2024 The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) will review the processes around the decision to uphold a protest in Race 3 at Beaudesert on Saturday, 30 March, 2024. Under the provision of AR280(2)(a) -There is no right of appeal against a decision of the Stewards in relation to: a protest against placed horses […]
The horse in the orange and black and white won a protest against the winner Supposedly the winner chopped it out on the turn and cost it the race. Pigs fly too. People sometimes ask me why I criticise the QRIC so much. The simple answer is because they deserve it. Here is proof positive. […]
Judging by recent events and reports there appears to be a very serious problem within the integrity ranks of the QRIC in Central QLD. Far too many mistakes are being made in the region, things are going wrong too often, and complaints about wrongdoing are being made about matters involving officials that are highly concerning […]
Archie The QRIC review was always going to be a waste of time and money. Mail is that KPMG have come up with some recommendations as part of their review into QRIC and decided that the Commissioner, Shane Gillard will stay on in his role but with additional help and oversight. Apparently, they will propose […]
We didn’t want to write it for legal reasons last week when we broke the story, but everyone now knows that it is jockey Sariah Champkin who has been charged with one count of assault occasioning bodily harm on a fellow licensee and another of willful damage by Queensland Police following the alleged stabbing incident […]
Archie, Attached is an article written by racecaller/journalist Tony McMahon. It is checked and correct. Now I agree the responsibility to weigh in falls on the jockey. However, what were Stewards doing? The chairman of the meeting was 22yo Hayden Gillett. Gillett is still listed on the QRIC staff chart as a cadet (and was […]
What a joke it was at the Barcaldine Races. After the first race jockey A Butler took over 10 minutes to return to scale then weighed in hunched over on scales. He was completely exhausted. Despite that, Butler was then allowed to weigh out for the second race. It was only when the horses were […]
The mail out of Tabletop Mountain is that the racing licensee who is alleged to have stabbed a fellow participant in the back with a pair of scissors during a dispute at a property across the road from Clifford Park on Thursday and it is claimed threatened to slit her throat was arrested by police […]
