Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jockey James Baker got fined $200 for this ‘celebratory gesture’ after winning the 4th race at Mt Isa aboard his family’s horse Field Of Red. Given that it was his entire riding fee the penalty seemed a but harsh. It wasn’t as if Baker was gesturing wildly or standing up in the irons, it was […]
Today’s TAB race meeting at Mt Isa has to be in danger, with temperatures in the town predicted to soar to a fry eggs on the driveway 41 degrees in the middle of the day. Racing QLD regard 38 degrees as extreme temperature, and its heat policy decrees that consideration of abandoning or modifying a […]
How strange it is that the state’s Chief Steward Josh Adams had to fly 1000km north from Brisbane yesterday to fill a spot on the somewhat bereft of experience Stewards panel for the Mackay race meeting. On face value it doesn’t appear to be the best use of scarce resources at the QRIC which ran […]
The Chantal Turpin trained Zena Rhayne Bow is clearly a very promising young pacer, as evidenced by the mile rate she ran of rarely seen in that grade of race 1.55.1 in winning a maiden at her first start at Albion Park yesterday. Those in the know backed her from $2.80 into odds on too, […]
Tasmanian Greens address to parliament 28 March 2023 Hi all, I am pleased to announce that we have been able to secure experienced steward Ross Neal to take on the position of Regional Manager North. Ross is currently employed as the Racing Integrity and Stewards Manager with the Office of Racing in Tasmania. Previously Ross […]
Horses swabbed pre-race: LOST IN TRANSIT, CUSACK, EAGLES CRAG, KING FRANKEL, BONNY EZRA, MILITARY GAMBLER. There were 1o races at Eagle Farm yesterday, yet only 6 horses were pre-race swabbed. Only the winners were post-race swabbed. Why? What sort of circus is it when so few swabs are taken at a Saturday metropolitan meeting? It […]
Startling figures from the recently tabled QRIC Annual Report reveal that confidence in the integrity of Queensland racing has dropped by almost 30% under the leadership of the current Commissioner Shane Gillard. A year ago 78% of the community were confident that racing was run with integrity. In the last 12 months that number has […]
The Commission’s Intel strategy, which uses intelligence data to crack down on wrongdoing in the racing industry, was fruitful in several cases this year, including when our RSC found evidence of a new substance being abused in greyhounds after using new information to target high-risk substances. When wastewater in a particular region was found to […]
If the cost per sample of swab testing decreases, then how does the cost of each test increase? Wouldn’t logic suggest that if the number of animals you test each year goes down, the cost per test would too? Instead though the median cost of the tests has risen from $302 the year before up […]
How the hell can you go around perpetrating totally unnecessary violence on a horse – brutality even – on a horse and only get a $1000 fine for it? As you will remember Central QLD trainer Tim Cook did this above to a horse a few months ago. “Whack!” a backhander to the head. The […]
