Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Shinn is rambling and raving now. QRIC’s lawyer Kelly gives him a prod and tells him to shut up. Shinn shuts up. Panel member Maiden pipes up and asks for the race vision to be replayed so Cain can point out where exactly Kerr’s horse ran up onto him. The footage doesn’t help Cain a […]
Take a look at the Rockhampton jump out winner in the picture above. Do you reckon that’s a chestnut filly by the name of Rosedale Miss? Or could it have been it’s stablemate Greylist, a grey gelding that won the first race at Mackay last Thursday week after being backed from $26 into $6? Note […]
On the 31st of July a chestnut gelding named Rosedale Miss trained by Tom Smith was entered in and won a jumpout at Rockhampton. The problem is that it wasn’t Rosedale Miss that ran in the trial. It was its grey coloured stablemate Greylist. Added note: Although Greylist is officially listed in the records as […]
New QRIC Commissioner Catherine Clark, a dead ringer for her parents The announcement of the appointment of Catherine Clark as the new QRIC Commissioner is warmly welcomed, for finally we have someone in charge of the integrity side of the sport who understands racing. Personal disclosure here before I continue: my late parents Lyn and […]
A 4-year-old mare named Home Creek collapsed at the 500m mark in race 1 Aramac on Saturday. Two horses went over the top of her. The riders of the three fallen horses Tim Brummell, Anna Bakos-Schrapel and Robbie Faehr were all taken to hospital with injuries. T’was but for the Grace of God none of […]
Apparently apprentice Isobel Jessop replaced fellow rider Savannah McCann aboard Boogielu in the 3rd race at Dingo yesterday, after McCann couldn’t make the weight to claim her full allowance. That’s what the Stewards report says anyway. If it were true young Ms Jessop would have become the first jockey in racing history to ride two […]
Was having five Stewards officiate at the 5 race/40 runner non-TAB card at Innisfail on the weekend really the best use of the cash-strapped QRIC’s scarce resources? I would have thought not, given that’s the same number of stipes that were on duty at the 10 race/117 runner metropolitan meeting run the same day at […]
Take a look at this drive will you? It’s race 10 at Albion Park on Friday night and we are watching Boston Bronski, the horse in the Donny Smith colors of lime green and black driven by Adam Richardson. Watch what Richardson does, and remember that Albion Park has a sprint lane. See that? Adam […]
Racing on merits 147. (1) A driver shall race a horse on its merits. (2) Action or non action by a driver during the course of a race which prevents or impedes the horse driven by that driver from racing on its merits shall be sufficient to establish non compliance with sub rule (1). (3) […]
On a day of penalties for careless riding at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, Michael Rodd received two suspensions, one of them 8 days for causing interference in race 2, and the other 12 days for causing interference in race 8. These were separate and distinct cases of careless riding, and the penalties were stand alone. […]
