Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
QRIC Stewards on Wednesday handed down their penalties against the three participants in the Birdsville jigger case. Trainer Todd Austin – who the stipes clearly believe ordered the jock to give the horse the spark, and was thus the prime offender – got 5 years. The jock Ric McMahon was given 3 1/2, presumably a […]
Thoroughbred rules QRIC Chief thoroughbred steward Josh Adams said the Commission is concerned about reports of owners lay betting against a horse in which they were connected. “Under no circumstances are the connections of a thoroughbred racehorse permitted to lay a horse in their care and or ownership,” he said. “If connections breach AR 237 they may […]
In about the middle of last year the NZ trainer/driver Terry Chmiel was locked in certainty to come to QLD to take up a job as a QRIC Steward. He’d been offered the role and accepted it, and was in the process of selling off his stable stock and moving them over to other trainers, […]
Watch this. Keep your eyes on the Currie horse, the one with the red and blue sleeves and the yellow cap. See what the rider John Kissick did? My God. Kissick didn’t drop his hands because he thought he was home and got complacent. He did it so the horse wouldn’t win. This is disgraceful. […]
LGHR has been reliably informed that in excess of 40 people – we find it hard to believe – have departed since the new ‘Dream Team’ took control of the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission. The old adage ‘dispense with those who represent a threat’ is alive and kicking at this under-performing, over-funded Labor Government enterprise […]
The photos above and below are from the Townsville TAB meeting held on the 20th of January. See the thing I have circled in the picture at the top taken of race 4? It’s an ambulance. Every race held at every meeting around Australia is supposed to have one trailing the field, in case a […]
I am presently representing a mate of mine in a racing appeal at QCAT. It’s something I do from time to time to help people I’m friends with who have been victims of what I perceive to be injustice put things right. Whilst I recently lost a battle, I have never lost a war. What […]
What you see at the top is the official Stewards report for race 5 at Emerald TAB meeting in Central QLD today. Not content with jockeys hitting horses with jiggers – or perhaps as punishment for it – now they are giving jolts and volts direct to the riders themselves. I’m not sure if anyone […]
The word out of the Brekky Creek bunker is that that the Stewards in charge of the swab attendants and the pre race swabs they took on Saturday last week at Magic Millions MK1 have had a wee accident. Scott Heidke is one of them, Kim Daly is the other. It appears that the pair […]
We reported overnight about the appointment of Karen Lees to the position of Deputy Chief Steward in North Queensland. Now I want to tell you how lucky we are. I don’t think I have ever seen a better qualified or experienced Deputy in my 50 years of following the game. Lees ticks every box ever […]
