Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Take a look at this drive of Adam Sanderson’s on the long odds on favorite Bling Your A Game in race 7 at Redcliffe last Friday week. It the deadest thing you have ever seen in your life. Bling Your A Game was backed from $2.40 into $1.45. Sanderson stopped it. Not just from winning, […]
Could M Hurley in the Stewards report from Albion Park on Thursday be one and the same Michael Hurley, the former NSW harness racing Steward who since 2006 had been working as a real estate agent up to and until the time in 2020 when he became involved in an altercation with former trot driver […]
QRIC have today (Thursday) conducted mass scale unannounced visits to trainers and racing participants at Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast and issued directions to a number of people to hand over their phones. It is believed that the following participants complied with the direction, and that their phones are now in the possession of the […]
It’s news to me that jockey Chris Whiteley had married fellow rider Wanderon D’Avila, or that he had adopted the Brazilian bred hoop’s last name. But I am glad that Australia allows people who want to pledge their life long commitment to each other to fulfill their dreams. I am all for it. Let love […]
Rule AHR90A – Trainer Licence (2.6) An applicant for a trainer’s licence Grade A must have satisfactorily completed all training modules applicable to a trainer’s licence Grade B and held such licence for not less than 12 months unless the Controlling Body decides otherwise. We told you last week about how QLD trot trainer Ryan […]
Do you recall the bad fall at Townsville in February in which Bubba Tilley and Graham Kliese hit the deck? The fall that caused Bubba to break his collarbone and Kliese his wrists? The one we blamed on the crazily large field sizes from the 1000m start? Bubba and Kliese Survive the Fall – But […]
Archie You are wrong about the Stewards inspection at Wondai. I was there. Steward Simon Fletcher didn’t just drive the car around the track an hour before the first. He got out multiple times and poked a measuring stick into the track. Testing I don’t know what. He alighted from the car and proudly displayed […]
Bailey Wheeler was excused for accepting a mount in race 1 at Eagle Farm yesterday that he couldn’t ride, the Stewards say for acceptable reasons. Five hours later Wheeler turns up at Toowoomba and has four rides. Toowoomba is only a 1 hour and 40 minute drive from Eagle Farm, and if you don’t have […]
Twenty minutes after our story about the major handicapping error in race 4 at Townsville today was published, QRIC issued the above tweet on its official X account acknowledging the mistake and advising punters who hadn’t already read it here that it had happened. A few minutes later the tweet disappeared, presumably having been removed […]
I am not sure whether to describe what went on at yesterday’s non-TAB meeting at Wondai in QLD as a tragedy or a farce. It was probably both, and there but for the grace of God could have been a whole lot worse. A runner in the first race fell. Henry’s Blade was its name, […]
