Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Isn’t it interesting to learn from the QLD Stewards that apprentice jockey Bailey Moffat is a Siamese twin. He’d just about have to be to have the ability to ride two horses in the same race wouldn’t he? According to the stewards Moffat was almost dislodged from Adashan in the first race at Mt Isa […]
The latest word on the street is that there appears to have been a fallout mid-review between the QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard and his Deputy Commissioner Natalie Connor (pictured at top), with both said to be pointing the finger of blame at the other for the mass mess of culture and management problems inside the […]
In a major breach of privacy laws, the consultants running the QRIC ‘Best Practice’ review have provided a real life demonstration of worst practice by releasing the names and private email addresses of almost 50 former employees without their knowledge or consent. The data breach occurred when the project managers KPMG emailed a meeting invitation […]
This is a cracker isn’t it? I didn’t know that race meetings in Townville on the 2oth of February were actually run 200km south in Bowen on the 2nd of February, did you? The incompetence of the QRIC never ceases to amaze.
Can anyone in the world explain why a lowly Saturday night meeting at Toowoomba required six Stewards to officiate at it, when the main meeting of the weekend at Eagle Farm only needed four? An even better question is why six stewards could only oversee the pre-race swabbing of three runners on the card? Is […]
If last night’s Albion Park stewarding is any indication, the current disenchantment-driven malaise in the QLD racing integrity ranks appears to be a virus that has spread like a web across all three codes. As at the gallops and greyhounds, far too few pre-race samples were taken from horses running at the meeting on which […]
Archie, We know the story so far. That is Dale Evans was dead as a maggot on Nic Some More at Mackay in Dec 2023. Super Steward Tate Hudson and Cadet Suli charged him with failing to take all reasonable measures on the horse, found him guilty and suspended him for 4 months. The next […]
The QRIC review has been going for around a month, and it’s only on Wednesday that Botra send out information about it to its members. What they sent wasn’t a progress update. It was the Terms of Reference, for an inquiry that’s already off and away. BOTRA President Darren Garrard invited and urged industry members […]
Stewards report, Race 1 at Miles on 10 Feb 2024 You can read as well as I can. The start of race 1 at Miles was delayed because the start had to be conducted by the assistant starter due to a lack of barrier staff. At least that’s what the starter Mr D. Kerwick told […]
Remember the exclusive we published during the week about the QRIC cutting costs by slashing the number of vets and swabbies at race meetings to one apiece? The issue that not even the industry members on the QRIC review committee knew about, let alone the mainstream racing media writers? Well finally after reading our stories […]
