Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last Saturday’s card at the Gold Coast was the main racing show in Queensland, the metro meeting. The races on the program carried prizemoney of between $75 000 and $150 000. Prizemoney at the Toowoomba meeting was between $21 500 and $30 000. Betting turnover on the Coast meeting was 4-5 times the amount held […]
There was a ladies 40th birthday party booked in and paid for at Clifford Park on Saturday night. The woman had booked a package that even included a race named after her, the ‘Happy Birthday XXX’ class whatever handicap. The birthday girl rocked up early to Weetwood park to set up for the big celebration […]
Mr Adams initially studied law before following his heart into racing and taking up a cadetship in Sydney. He then moved to South Australia and was promoted to Regional Deputy Chief Steward Thoroughbreds in 2012, before arriving in Queensland in 2019 – Chris Reid, QRIC Spin Doctor in Chief Isn’t that weird? I always thought that […]
At first when I saw this I thought ‘Good on the Stewards. They’ve realised that they’ve missed something and had been professional enough to acknowledge their omission and remedy it. Then I read it. It’s an absolute and utter load of nonsense. Chief Steward Joshua Adams is trying to be clever and explain away the […]
The news has just come over the radio that Josh Adams has been appointed as the new Chief Steward of Thoroughbred Racing in QLD. It is controversial appointment to be sure. Adams, who at age 35 will become the youngest Chief Steward in any major thoroughbred racing state in the land, was only appointed as […]
There are a lot of qualities that are required to be a top shelf Steward. Consistency is chief among them. If licensees aren’t treated equitably, and like punishments aren’t handed down for like offences, confidence in the system becomes eroded. Once that happens, integrity becomes a slippery slope, and all fall down. Cody Collis is […]
Club officials used to act as Stewards way back in the dark ages when Australian racing began. It was a just a squatters sport back then, and the stipes were volunteers who gave their time to officiate at the races held on their tracks. But there was no official betting then, so it wasn’t that […]
Noel Callow has just copped 3 months for betting on races, in total breach of the rules and his own obligations. Usually such an offence is a minimum 1 year disqualification – remember J-Mac copping it? – but in this case in it’s wisdom the Victorian Racing Tribunal has seen fit to give Callow only […]
See the name on the bottom of the press release? Nicole Rowles. The new QRIC media officer. Up until December 2021 Rowles was doing freelance media consulting through her own company, and then up until she took the QRIC job she was working for an outfit called K.K.&O. Agency. One of her and KKO’s clients […]
The word on the street is that the QRIC are blaming the acting Chief Steward D. Aurisch for leaking us information about the internal restructure going on within the walls. Former Commissioner Ross Barnett once blamed internal leaks from QRIC and from the QPS (QLD Police) for stories I wrote about the organisation under his […]
