Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
“I can’t touch horses or saddle horses but I can manage some things for the stable, help with programming campaigns for horses and manage communication with owners” “There are some things I did wrong in the past and if I could go back in time and change some stuff I would. “I’ve always wanted to […]
QLD jockey Amy Graham was charged by Stewards with one count of damaging the image of racing by snorting coke while jockey Casey Waddell who she thought was a mate was filming it on her phone, and another count of lying to Zim (QRIC Steward Paul Zimmerman) about who else was there on the toot […]
CRAHP President Cranitch (pictured): A Red Hot Racing Fan With a Cool Solution to the Heat Stress Conundrum Deputy QRIC Commissioner Kim Kelly has been courting controversy in QLD country racing circles recently over the well-intended application of his new Caring For Animals in Extreme Heat Policy that was developed using the classic consultation method […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC21112514.mp4 You have never seen a more obvious team drive in your life than the one Team Dixon pulled in the $100 000 Sunshine Stars 3yo Classic at Albion Park on Friday. It was disgraceful. As you will learn later the Stewarding was worse. Grant Dixon trained 6 of the 10 runners in the race. […]
Trainers in the Far North QLD trainers awoke to a rude surprise this morning when the QRIC integrity assurance team paid them a visit as part of an out of competition testing blitz designed to catch out trainers who are using performance enhancing drugs on their horses but are timing the administration so that the […]
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked […]
COLOURS OF AUTUM – Jockey L. Morrison pleaded guilty to a charge under AR 132(5) in that she used her whip in an excessive manner striking the horse 7 times prior the 100 metres and 18 times in totality. Jockey Morrison’s license to ride in races was suspended for a period of 7 days to […]
Oh dear. Lacey’s lucky day has turned to disaster. Yesterday the Stewards Report for race 4 at Cairns made no mention about Lacey Morrison’s excessive whip use. Now, presumably after reading the unofficial Stewards Report – our story – and having seen the incontrovertible proof of jockey Morrison’s whip rule breach, the Stewards Report has […]
Time To Turn wasn’t a very good racehorse. In fact it is fair to say that he was a rather poor one. 37 starts without a win and failures at its past four starts at Eidsvold, Burrandowan, Gayndah and Kumbia tell you the story. Now how slow he was though, Time To Turn didn’t deserve […]
A funny incident occurred in the 4th race at the Gold Coast on Saturday. The whips of jockeys Anthony Allen (in the blue and white) and Danny Peisley (in the red and white) became entangled. Allen ended up with both whips. Jockey A. Allen is not a strong rider with the persuader in the right […]
