Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Apprentice jockey Jace McMurray is an absolute gun. In his first full season of riding the kid who is only 19 or 20 outrode his claim, and won each of the QLD provincial apprentice title and the Gold Coast junior and senior riders crowns. McMurray has the racing world at his feet. Bar for a […]
Disclaimer Let me preface what follows by making it clear that I am not a lawyer, and that this is not legal advice. It is merely an opinion proffered by someone with a verified IQ of 183 plus prior to suffering a stroke who pre-disability – or spasticity as Wil Hulbert would call it – […]
The Tanya Parry trainer Rock On Angel – who certainly isn’t – refused to parade before her race at Mt Isa on the weekend. After a lot of persuasion jockey Masa Abe coaxed her to do the barriers. When she arrived there she started rearing like a mad thing and flung him in the air. […]
The horse whose gates are wide open while all the others are shut only gained a head advantage at the start did it? Or so the Stewards say anyway. If they are correct then I am Rocky Balboa. Minus the title belt and the punch.
RACE 5:BROWN FAMILY WINE GROUP BENCHMARK 62 HANDICAP 870 M Correct weight was delayed to allow Stewards to review the start of the race. After viewing the official footage, Stewards found that just prior to the start being effected, DRUMS OF WAR lunged forward, contacting its front gates, which opened marginally earlier prior to the […]
Story by Cameron Atfield, Brisbane Times Queensland’s racing integrity watchdog has refused to release records relating to safety and animal welfare at Brisbane’s flagship greyhound racing facility, citing the scale of material generated during the track’s first months of operation. The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission estimated between 8000 and 15,000 documents fell within the scope of a […]
Dear QRIC I see your advert for a Senior Steward, and note that it is listed under the occupational classification of Journalism and Writing. Although I myself never knew that senior racing integrity roles were designed for racing writers, given recent events that demonstrate that your current incumbents in the job don’t know what day […]
See the three embargoes placed on horses by the Stewards after the Bowen race meeting on Saturday 11 April? Well they might have been, but they weren’t. As I write this it is Sunday the 19th of April. Not a single one of the embargoes has been put in place. See below. This is very, […]
Can you see the mistake? If you can’t pick up the newspaper, or grab a calendar, and check the date. The Stewards obviously didn’t. Friday was the 17th. Saturday was the 18th. It’s the little things that count. Like knowing what day of the week it is.
Remember we told you about the great rock n’ roll Tom Hedley weight rort with Valenki a few days ago? The one where a horse of Hedley’s named Valenki was entered in race 4 at Cairns on Thurday to compress the weights and then scratched an hour after acceptances? How To Compress the Weights in […]
