Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Grubby Day tells the panel that he usually sweats in the spa at home, but Ewan being in the middle of nowhere (as he describes it) there were no facilities of that kind. So he had to go old school by wrapping himself in plastic and hitting the street to go for a run in […]
Justice O’Brien begins to deliver the Panel’s verdict. He starts by saying it is appropriate to read Grubby’s appeal submission in full. It’s much as we’ve already reported. O’Brien then launches into the Stewards decision to charge Grubby and find him guilty. He explains that Grubby doesn’t have to prove himself innocent, the onus is […]
No-one can ever accuse the QRIC Stewards of being consistent. This was vividly illustrated on Melbourne Cup day when Five riders at five different Queensland tracks were pinched for failing to fully ride their mounts out to the finish line. Remarkably each received a different penalty for the exact same offence. How can that be? […]
How many QRIC directed staff does it take to run a six-race Non-TAB trot meeting on a triangle? Ten. This is Queensland we are talking about after all. There were 4 Stewards, 2 judges, 2 starters, 1 swabbie and a vet at the no bet Redcliffe meeting yesterday. The only people missing were the maid […]
Broadcaster Ray Hadley has been on Scott Steele’s case for long enough to get his facts right, but still he hasn’t and it does him no credit at all. That was proven yesterday when Hadley had another go at Steele – and indeed the whole management of the three codes of racing in Queensland – […]
Mossdale Terry was the raging $1.18 favorite to win the first at Albion Park on Saturday night. It led and went under. Shane Graham told the Stewards that the horse had performed to the best of it’s ability. The gullible stipes accepted Graham’s explanation, obviously without checking. The winner of the race ran 1.53.2. Mossdale […]
I’m just a mug punter having a few bets to try and scrape quid, not an expert horseman, but there are a few things you learn when you watch horse races every waking hour of every day. One of them is that when the Stewards approve a horse wearing ear muffs pre-race only to help […]
I never cease to be astounded about the massive contradiction between the devout faith in racing integrity espoused by the people who run the three codes in this State, and the records of people employed or licensed in Queensland under their rigorous regulatory watch. Here are just a few off the top of my head. […]
Has there ever been a horse that has started at a longer price than Light A Dragon? $2100.00 it went off at, 2099-1. It was unders. This is the worst racehorse in the world. It was thrashed by 22 lengths yesterday when it ran last in a maiden at outback Ewan. The start before on […]
Bigcat was the $1.50 favorite in race 4 at Mackay yesterday, and carried the weight of most punters money. The horse was listed as racing without blinkers as it had at its two previous QLD starts. Punters around Australia placed their bets in what they believed to be the certainty that Bigcat would once […]
