Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The news has just come over the radio that Josh Adams has been appointed as the new Chief Steward of Thoroughbred Racing in QLD. It is controversial appointment to be sure. Adams, who at age 35 will become the youngest Chief Steward in any major thoroughbred racing state in the land, was only appointed as […]
There are a lot of qualities that are required to be a top shelf Steward. Consistency is chief among them. If licensees aren’t treated equitably, and like punishments aren’t handed down for like offences, confidence in the system becomes eroded. Once that happens, integrity becomes a slippery slope, and all fall down. Cody Collis is […]
Club officials used to act as Stewards way back in the dark ages when Australian racing began. It was a just a squatters sport back then, and the stipes were volunteers who gave their time to officiate at the races held on their tracks. But there was no official betting then, so it wasn’t that […]
Noel Callow has just copped 3 months for betting on races, in total breach of the rules and his own obligations. Usually such an offence is a minimum 1 year disqualification – remember J-Mac copping it? – but in this case in it’s wisdom the Victorian Racing Tribunal has seen fit to give Callow only […]
See the name on the bottom of the press release? Nicole Rowles. The new QRIC media officer. Up until December 2021 Rowles was doing freelance media consulting through her own company, and then up until she took the QRIC job she was working for an outfit called K.K.&O. Agency. One of her and KKO’s clients […]
The word on the street is that the QRIC are blaming the acting Chief Steward D. Aurisch for leaking us information about the internal restructure going on within the walls. Former Commissioner Ross Barnett once blamed internal leaks from QRIC and from the QPS (QLD Police) for stories I wrote about the organisation under his […]
Another great Irishman with a bit of Ernie in his name So what do you make of the Birdsville jigger inquiry? My view is this. Ric McMahon is lying like fuck, and then lying some more when he claims not to know what a jigger is, or how to use it. That’s bollocks. McMahon moved […]
Further mail has been received about the QRIC restructure of the Stewarding ranks. Our sources inside the bubble tell us that the Integrity Unit is definitely being disbanded. All positions in it are likely to become redundant. Eight new positions will be created. Three will be in Brisbane. Five will be in Regional QLD, and […]
The latest mail on the internal ructions at QRIC are that the Integrity Investigations Team (IIT) is the group that is being targeted in the latest sweep of the broom wielded by the new(ish) executive management team that is now running the organisation. Word is that the IIT in it’s present form is going to […]
Jockey Ric McMahon has delivered bombshell evidence in the first day of the Birdsville Cup jigger stewards’ inquiry, claiming trainer Todd Austin handed him the electrical device and told him to use it on a horse’s neck during track work. McMahon told the Doomben hearing that Austin handed him a jigger to use on one […]
