Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Some wags who were watching the Cairns races with me yesterday are saying that the inquiry into the incident after the 9th race is about how the Racing Queensland website has Fanciful Mr Fox being ridden by Graham Kliese and finishing 5th, when we all saw that is was actually Lacey Morrison who booted the […]
A horse named Nutso racked up win 4 from 10 careers starts in winning Race 1 at Charleville by 4 lengths yesterday afteroon. Five hours later the horse is fighting for his life after suffering heat stroke during his race, but at this stage the bands still playing. It’s 38 degrees in the shade despite […]
Why on earth did the Stewards waste their time and put undue pressure on James Orman by inquiring into this ride? What the hell could they possibly have imagined that Orman did wrong? Putting a horse on the fence at the mile mark of a middle distance race run on a tight turning track is […]
You can see the Steward report about race 2 at Townsville yesterday. Now look at the race. And tell me that Amanda Thomson didn’t ride this second placed grey horse the $1.80 favorite dead. Puh-lease. Gimme a break.
Isn’t it interesting to learn from the QLD Stewards that apprentice jockey Bailey Moffat is a Siamese twin. He’d just about have to be to have the ability to ride two horses in the same race wouldn’t he? According to the stewards Moffat was almost dislodged from Adashan in the first race at Mt Isa […]
The latest word on the street is that there appears to have been a fallout mid-review between the QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard and his Deputy Commissioner Natalie Connor (pictured at top), with both said to be pointing the finger of blame at the other for the mass mess of culture and management problems inside the […]
In a major breach of privacy laws, the consultants running the QRIC ‘Best Practice’ review have provided a real life demonstration of worst practice by releasing the names and private email addresses of almost 50 former employees without their knowledge or consent. The data breach occurred when the project managers KPMG emailed a meeting invitation […]
This is a cracker isn’t it? I didn’t know that race meetings in Townville on the 2oth of February were actually run 200km south in Bowen on the 2nd of February, did you? The incompetence of the QRIC never ceases to amaze.
Can anyone in the world explain why a lowly Saturday night meeting at Toowoomba required six Stewards to officiate at it, when the main meeting of the weekend at Eagle Farm only needed four? An even better question is why six stewards could only oversee the pre-race swabbing of three runners on the card? Is […]
If last night’s Albion Park stewarding is any indication, the current disenchantment-driven malaise in the QLD racing integrity ranks appears to be a virus that has spread like a web across all three codes. As at the gallops and greyhounds, far too few pre-race samples were taken from horses running at the meeting on which […]
