Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Irony of the week is GWIC Chief Steward Wade Birch’s pronounced declaration that hair testing of greyhounds is going to be ramped up during the Million Dollar Chase carnival. It would be a bit hard to hair test the Chief himself wouldn’t it? You could however look at the betting records when he worked as […]
You have to admit, integrity management of racing is in excellent hands in Queensland at the moment. G-G-oondiwindi has moved to Toowoomba, where the outstanding Chief Steward on the Darling Downs Crayons Warren has got things totally and utterly under control. Toowoomba itself has vanished, but it was never that good a joint anyway, so […]
I have come to the sad conclusion that there is nothing you say about the the QRIC Stewards and nothing you can do, except shake your head, close your eyes and dream about the days of Pat Lalor and John Schreck, back when Stipes were Stipes and there was a job to be done and […]
More than 8 is the obvious answer. On Friday at Birdsville a six start maiden galloper named Secret Tears, who had never finished closer than 6th a race before, ran true to form and was beaten 28 lengths into ninth place in a maiden. The very next day it was backed from $26 into $12 […]
Eight QRIC Stewards trekked up to Birdsville on the weekend for the Cup meeting, including it appears the Chief Steward Josh Adams. It was a totally unnecessary show of force designed to alleviate the QRIC’s embarrassment about the fact that this website uncovered the jigger scandal before last year’s big race and the QRIC didn’t, […]
Where else in the world does a Cadet Steward get t0 chair the panel at a professional race meeting? It’s bit like putting a 2nd year apprentice plumber in charge of the council water supply, or appointing a 3rd year apprentice chippie to project manage the construction of a tall tower. In other words its […]
Last night we shared our extreme scepticism about the prospect to the topweight Bollente starting in the Birdsville Cup, and expressed an opinion that the horse was only there to compress the weights for the stablemate and would be scratched after the declaration acceptances. It has to stay until then so that the handicapper didn’t […]
Winton grazier Clarrie Hermann (pictured above) might well be 87 years old, but he has lost none of the tough cocky’s guile that has seen him running about 20 000 sheep over the 70 000 odd hectares that he owns and runs out in the town where Banjo Patterson once upon a time penned Waltzing […]
It doesn’t take any. All the stipes have to do is read peterproft.com. After all, we spotted the harp in Ric McMahon’s hand at trackwork in Birdsville last year, not the officials. It won’t stop them from sending a crazy numbers of race day and investigate stewards out into the middle of nowhere for 3 […]
As you can see above, the QRIC Stewards in charge of the Cairns Cup meeting yesterday were convinced that the last race on the card was the Lightning. It wasn’t. The Lightning was a 950m open class dash run as race 8. Race 10 was a Class 6 run over 1250m. They couldn’t even get […]
