Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There were three horses pre-race swabbed at the Rockhampton races yesterday. One in race 3. Price $19.00. And two in race 6. Prices $21.00 and $81.00. Gee that was a great use of scarce resources wasn’t it? A bit like wearing board shorts and a singlet in the snow.
Brendan Parnell is the CEO of Racing Queensland. He doesn’t have a clue about keeping country race tracks safe. But he sure does know how to use a shovel to his own advatage. Pins earns $578 000 a year for having tracks fail under his watch, $15 000 more than he did in the year […]
If you have been convicted of any of the above offences, and your conviction was recorded after 1 July 2016, you cannot get a racing license of any description in Queensland. You are totally banned. If you were convicted prior to 2016 you are subject to the fit and proper test, and at its own […]
In the course of writing my previous story that was highly critical of the Rockhampton Jockey Club gifting an alcoholic who was convicted of killing a woman while driving blind drunk, and who had a history of becoming violently aggressive when intoxicated (did I mention that?) a bottle of wine to celebrate his arrival by […]
The strong mail from the south is that controversial Tasmanian Chief Steward (presently stood down) Steven Shinn is returning to QLD, Our people tell us that he is leaving Tassie, and has been re-employed by the QRIC. Believe it or not – at this stage I am struggling to – but we are also told […]
Racing animal welfare remains our top priority Former QRIC Commissioner Ross Barnett, 2019 This is an extract from the belatedly released official Stewards Report from the Morven race meeting at Saturday at which three horses died, in unrelated circumstances according to the QRIC. As you can see, it is clear from the report that the […]
The famous writer Mark Twain was famously reported as being dead long before he actually was. Trommelschlagen was too, by us. We were wrong thankfully. The 8-year-old is alive and well. He was only beaten by the literal length of the straight at Morven because he got bumped at the start and then shortly thereafter […]
Saturday’s race meeting at Morven was abandoned after race five of the six-race program. Stewards consulted with jockeys after race five on Saturday and it was decided that the last race on the program be abandoned due to the deterioration of the track. Prior to calling off the race meeting there had been three unrelated […]
It’s a funny place Queensland, probably the only racing jurisdiction in the modern world of digital cameras and computerised finish results that employs as many judges to sit in a box together at a meeting as it does Stewards to run the whole shebang. That was the situation at the State’s Saturday metropolitan meeting at […]
This Casey Bailey, a one-time contender for the title of 2020 Australian Rodeo Queen. Casey is from Wangaratta in Victoria, and likes rodeos and football, and does Equine Breaking-in and education services. I suspect that she may be partial to kung fu movies too, at least if what occurred at the Callaghan Racecourse, Rockhampton on […]
