Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The whisper from the QRIC’s Breakfast Creek bunker is that the QLD gallops Chief Steward Josh Adams and a local Brisbane company are working together on technology that will assist with protest hearings. Made using real-time positional data technology, similar to ball tracker, the new software will be able to tell stewards everything: the direction […]
Can anyone please explain why the Albion Park Stewards allowed Adam Richardson to drive Richard Hutchinson’s runner in race 4 on Tuesday instead of driving one of the two starters that his wife Alanah had in the race? To take the question further, can anyone tell us why the Stewards didn’t charge Richardson with the […]
Race 2: TOMS TARPS / TWIDALE AUTO / FULL BOAR WELDING BENCHMARK 55 HCAP 1400m Declaration of correct weight was significantly delayed allowing Stewards to ascertain how the start of the event had been effected when GOVERNOR GENERAL was not loaded into the barrier. After taking evidence from Starter Mr I Henderson and all riders […]
The QLD Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) makes some very strange decisions from time to time. In fact they make them all the time. The recent case of Ronald Ryan is yet another example. Ryan got sprung administering boost paste to a horse named FIVE BULLS by the QRIC flying squad when they drove up the […]
This is the horse Dystopian after it ran in race 5 at Cannon Park in Cairns yesterday. The horse was fractious in the barriers and reared, hitting its head on the top of the stalls. The impact caused Dystopian to suffer a deep laceration to its upper forehead. For reasons only they can explain neither […]
In a decision that has dumbfounded many, Queensland trainer Alanah Richardson (nee Pitt) has escaped from a cobalt presentation conviction with only a fine. Richardson, whose pacer Arendelle threw the positive to the notorious natural element cum banned substance after running third at Albion Park in December, was in fact suspended for12 months but the […]
Why on earth would the Stewards question apprentice Perrie Carter’s ride on Braidwood Queen in this race at Bundaberg yesterday? The kid was on the despised outsider in the race, and thanks to her bold front running tactics she almost pinched it. The much better fancied pair who filled the quinella – one of them […]
You could spend your whole life looking, and travel the world in search of one, but you will never find an easier protest to uphold than this one in the 2nd race at Thangool on the weekend. Craiglea Bronte took hold of its lightweight apprentice rider Kelsey Lenton on the home turn and decided to […]
Last Saturday week the Stewards interviewed starter Jason Suli seeking an explanation for his decision to call a false start when two runners, one of them the heavily backed favorite Savage Storm, galloped separately free of any interference to them and causing no interference to any other runner. As much as punters might be aggrieved […]
See the man in the moleskins and country hat, with his back to the camera? That’s Ross Neal, the former New Zealand Chief Steward now working on the tools in regional north-west Queensland. What’s he doing there at the starting stalls? You can’t steward much from that spot, which is why Stewards never until now […]
