Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
By Trenton Akers 01:52pm • 28 January 2024 The long-awaited review into the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission will kick off on Monday, with a steering committee set to meet for the first time to lay their concerns over the under-pressure organisation bare. Corporate high flyers KPMG have been engaged to handle the review, which is set […]
Horses swabbed pre-race TOO MUCH CLASS, NOAH ‘N’ A DEEL, SO DAPPER, ESSONNE (NZ), HOLLYWOOD NORTH, RENOUF. Horses swabbed post-race All winners, JETTY. There were 10 races at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, but only 6 runners were pre-race swabbed and just 1 horse outside of the winners post-race tested. Compare that to Randwick’s 10 […]
I don’t think that either Cyclones Jasper or Kirrily are most North QLD trainers first eye of the needle rodeo. I suspect that for many of the QRIC stewards it is. Which makes it all the more ironic that they are telling North Queenslanders how to suck eggs during a cyclone. The next thing you […]
Here is a full list of the people invited to the upcoming QRIC Steering Committee meeting. The last two names are KPMG representatives. The others are self explanatory. Bernadette Ditchfield – DAF (QLD Dept of Agriculture and Fisheries) Justine Clark – DAF Rebecca Farrell – DAF Caroline Andrews – DAF Shane Gillard Daren Garrard Cameron […]
What hope does the review of the QRIC have when it is beset with structural problems from the start? Not much is our guess. The review is being conducted by the major consultancy firm KPMG, which is a problem because they are a ‘partner’ of the QRIC, having been involved in the original recommendations to […]
Hi everyone, As you know, in December Minister Grace announced a routine review of QRIC’s powers and functions, and has requested that a report be delivered to her office by Thursday 28 March, 2024. With that in mind, I’d like to update you on how the review is progressing. The review is being conducted by […]
Greyhound trainer Janene Armstrong turned up to the Albion Park race meeting on the 4th of October with two dogs that were significantly underweight, to the point of being the canine version of WW2 POW’s, of which my grandfather was one. It ain’t pleasant. Red Burner was down 2.2 kilograms on its previous racing weight […]
Why would the QRIC need to send 6 Stewards, 3 Judges, 2 vets, 2 swab attendants and 2 starters to yesterday’s midweek Doomben meeting? It wasn’t a Saturday metro, and only 6 horses were pre-race swabbed, and just the winners after. So why the cast of thousands? None of it makes any sense from a […]
The racing integrity team turned out in force for yesterday’s Magic Millions meeting, with the cast list running to eight stewards (including the chief), 2 cadet stewards, a clerk of the scales, three judges, seven vets, six swab attendants and one starter, 28 QRIC officials in total. Sadly the 28 couldn’t run a race meeting […]
Fresh off the back of the Dale “Handbrake” Evans at Mackay and Jackson Murphy running and handling inquiries, we get two in one day at headquarters yesterday. First the chief Geoff ‘Gus’ Goold and his bad of merry stewarding men adjourned an inquiry into the $1.28 fav in a maiden plate over 2040m ridden by […]
