Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Jack Trainor was given a stay of his 3 month sentence yesterday. Jason Grimson has been given a stay too, yesterday afternoon. Both of them pleaded guilty to bashing a bloke in the bar after the last at the trots. Guilty. Grimson’s assault on the chap was decreed to be up there near the highest […]
On the 3rd of February 2022 the then QRIC Integrity Investigation Team made an unannounced visit to the stables of former county music singer turned trot trainer Stephen ‘Bunzie’ Bunce to conduct a stable inspection. Bunz didn’t take being interrupted during his day very kindly, and launched into a tirade of vile abuse and threats […]
Jason Grimson – the trot trainer that Captain Ravishing’s owner Hass Taiba called the Greatest of All Time – has this afternoon been disqualified for 12 months in relation to his role in the brawl at Albion on Blacks a Fake night. Jack Trainor has been outed for three months. Grimson must hid harder, which […]
Normal footage (above). Stewards footage (below). Huh? How did Chief Steward Crayons decide that Kenji’s horse got a fair start if he couldn’t see the head on footage? Or did he? Race 2: REMEMBERING MARK FLINT CLASS 4 HANDICAP (1300m) Correct weight was delayed allowing Stewards to view the start regarding Jockey K. Yoshida […]
In March 1895, Goldsbrough Mort & Co employed the notorious Jack Watson to manage the station.[5] Watson had such a “bad name among the blacks” that the Aboriginal people used as cheap labour on the station had all run away. Even his own “blackboy” servant named Pompey had cleared out. When Watson later heard that Pompey had been killed, he […]
Stewards inquired into an incident which occurred on entrance to the home straight in the run to the finish where it was established Cosmic Flyer and Attachment were checked to varying degrees. After taking evidence from the drivers concerned, Nathan Dawson was charged pursuant to AHR rule 168(1)(a) for driving in the careless manner in […]
