Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See that thing in the US jockey’s hand? It is the same thing that was in Ric McMahon’s at Birdsville trackwork yesterday. It is a jigger. This is disgraceful conduct that brings shame to our sport.’ Everyone involved should be banned for life.
A jigger is a battery powered electric shock device, similar to a taser. Long used in the Australian racing industry as a means of pushing horses to run faster, their use was curbed during race meets once stewards vision of races improved with the introduction of video surveillance. Illegal under the Prevention of Cruelty to […]
The hot word around Breakfast Creek is that harness racing is about to enjoy the services of two new Stewards who are joining the QRIC ranks. Both are honest and highly respected industry participants who have hung up the reins to take up a new career, and in my view we are blessed to have […]
Yet another racing Steward says bon voyage and heads in a southerly direction across the Tweed. I tell you what, any QRIC official half worth their salt would have a hard time getting sacked. There is nobody left to replace them. Will the last Steward left in Queensland please turn out the lights?
Kyle Wilson-Taylor rode at 54kg in race 5 at the Gold Coast yesterday. Somehow – perhaps it was a type of reverse miracle – he was unable to ride at 56kg in race 9. How does a rider gain two kilograms in 2 hours? You tell me. Apprentices Yvette Lewis, Angela Jones and Jasmine Cornish […]
You can’t argue with numbers. Here are the number of pre-race swabs taken at the three major metropolitan meetings held on the eastern coast of Australia yesterday. No, this is not a mistake. Not ours anyway. Randwick – 37 The Valley – 25 Doomben – 5 QLD Chief Steward Peter Chadwick chaired the panel at […]
A couple of weeks back a race meeting was abandoned at Emerald in controversial circumstances. Trainers were driving from near and far to come and race at the meeting, most from far. If they had been provided with early notice of the meet being called off they could have stayed home. Instead many of them […]
There were just three horses pre-race swabbed at the Gold Coast gallops meeting on Saturday. Two of them were in the same race, number three. They were Argyle Belle which started at $10.00 and ran 6th, and Value Abbey which started at $51.00 and ran to its price by being tailed out 15 lengths at […]
There were 35 pre-race swabs taken from runners at the Rosehill meeting yesterday. Victoria took 32. South Australia pre-race swabbed 23. How about in Queensland you ask? They took just 5. Yes that’s correct, only 5 runners on the whole card in the 3rd biggest racing state in the land were pre-race swabbed so that […]
Robert Heathcote pleaded guilty to administering, or causing to administer, a product that is well known to contain cobalt to 23 horses in the space of just 2 months. His disciplinary history showed that he had been convicted of like offences before, and was thus a repeat offender. Many trainers with no disciplinary history at […]
