Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are deep internal runctions about what appears to be a restructure going in inside the QRIC, with at least three integrity officials we are told in the gun, and fearful for their futures. People don’t get sacked in the public sector, not unless they have their hand in the till or act entirely inappropriately […]
The Stewards report into the Luke Tarrant fall at the Sunshine Coast last week has been finalised. It was no-one’s fault that Tarrant fell they found. And Shane Dye didn’t get Veandercross beaten in the ’92 Caulfield Cup either. Puhlease. The title says it all. You can read out earlier story about the fall at […]
Star apprentice jockey Jasmine Cornish had a terrible fall in a trial at the Beaudesert race last week. The track is named Aquis Beaudesert. It is owned and operated by the Gold Coast Turf Club (GCTC), one of the wealthiest racing clubs in Queensland, and the current recipient of at least $63 million in State […]
The Ric McMahon case comes on for mention in the Magistrates Court this morning. We are told by our friends in the north that the great racing man Wally Tutt, a former District Court judge who is making a comeback to the law as a solicitor after many years post being forced by his age […]
This jockey wasn’t caught with a jigger. The charges are based on the pictures taken by an innocent, well meaning photographer that were spotted by us, and published in a story on this website. In the absence of admissions or lag ups, this the best the prosecution got. Which means that the whole case hinges […]
It seems that the QRIC have been doing a ring around of the clubs to inform them that the information that I published this morning about my interpretation that the QLD Racing Integrity Act applies in cases of conflicts with the rules – for example, in relation to inspections and ‘random’ out of competition drug […]
Q. At what point are they turned on? A. BWCs allow authorised officers to collect audio and video recordings while working out in the field. Fieldwork includes situations such a routine stable/kennel inspections, animal welfare investigations, and race day Steward’s inquiries Comment: Do you notice that at no stage do QRIC ever answer it’s own […]
The mail we have had out of the west of QLD is that Chief Steward on the day Kim Daley’s conduct toward a young jockey at the races in Chinchilla on Saturday was just not on. The incident we are referring to occurred after race 4, which resulted in Apprentice Sariah Champkin being reprimanded for […]
We have written about former racing Steward Neil Boyle on a number of occasions. It is our view that after the incident involving him sending unwanted lewd texts and pictures to an apprentice jockey a couple of years ago – actions that saw him quietly walked out the door – he should never have been […]
The last time that I looked Brad Tamer, the former spokesperson for Australia’s largest corporate bookie Tabcorp, was the General Manager of Operations at QRIC, and earning more money than any pleb Steward in the joint. Now, just a few months later, here he is performing low-level Steward duties on the panel at Eagle Farm […]
