Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
As is well known, prior to turning to race writing I was a trade union official for many years, quite a senior one too. I was good at what I did when I tried, which wasn’t all the time because I had undiagnosed PTSD and it interfered with my senses. But all in all I […]
No, the QLD Racing Integrity Commissioner is not a drug squad detective – he just likes to play dress up like one Almost every trainer in Queensland that is charged with a rule breach offence is called into a Stewards Inquiry and formally issued with the charge, and then an advisory notice is published to […]
Karl Zechner is a 34-year-old Zimbabwe born South African jockey who rode about 600 winners at home. He has ridden almost a 100 in Australia since moving here two years ago. Zechner outrode his claim more than a decade ago. Someone obviously forgot to tell Racing QLD and the TAB. They had him as a […]
This is the official Steward’s Summary for yesterday’s Mt Isa meeting. There are a couple of problems with it. One is that geldings that bleed from both nostrils aren’t allowed to race for 3 months, and Ela Beach started yesterday. The other is that she is not a gelding at all, she’s a mare. Bloody […]
The Stewards charging apprentice Adin Thompson with improper riding on Saturday after his maiden Group winner in the Pam O’Neill Stakes attracted everyone’s attention, but most folk missed the adjourned inquiry into Jaden Lloyd’s beaten ride in the tenth race, the one right after. It is the one we should all be really looking at. […]
Adrian Layt is a Queensland based jockey whose official riding weight is registered as 56.5kg. Layt hasn’t ridden under 55kg (plus 1kg gear allowance) for donkey’s years. Yesterday at Townsville he was permitted to ride a horse in race 4 named Riverside Special. It was weighted at 54kg. A. Layt was never a hope of […]
Do you remember me telling you a couple of months back that the QRIC and it’s long-time Chief Vet Dr Martin Lenz would soon be parting ways? Well, I guess we were right. What a surprise hey? You always read it first here. Dr Martin Lenz to Leave the QRIC
Sometimes you just look at something and have to shake your head. This Stewards report is two of them. How was Jilliby Kung Fu disadvantaged by track conditions? The winner of the big one – the QLD Sun, the very next race – came from exactly the same position up the sprint lane, as did […]
I know a bloke named Mark Riley – a Group 1 winning trainer and jockey – who has effectively been banned from the sport by Racing Victoria due to a positive swab charge brought (and won) by Racing Victoria on a technicality that turns .061 of 1000th of 6.02214076×10 particles of total carbon dioxide (tco2) into […]
Isn’t it strange that a near two-year Steward’s inquiry into suspected doping by trainer Chris Munce comes to light just 4 days after the last race of the Brisbane Winter Carnival. I guess it’s coincidence hey? Just like it is that Munce has been charged with doping a mare, and that 6 of his 7 […]
