Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
We have few things to say, and instead will reflect on the issue by asking a few questions, as follows: Is anyone actually surprised? Have the QRIC Stewards gone back and looked at any of Callow’s rides since he has been in Queensland? Have they looked at the ones that showed up in the betting […]
G’day My name’s Archie Butterfly, and I write about racing. The website is peterprofit.com, and it’s widely read by racing participants. I wish to be placed on your media distribution list please, and be placed on the same standing as Ben Dorries, because although he is very good when it comes to writing about racing, I am too, albeit […]
Can you see the problem with the picture? I think it’s obvious. The new QRIC Commissioner, like the one before him, and like almost every racing administrator around the nation bar Peter V’Landys, has no idea who the principal stakeholder in racing is. The Commissioner – whose salary is 100% funded by people he has […]
Chief Steward Peter Chadwick returned to duty last week after taking a month off for his winter vacation. Chadwick was kind enough to grace us with his presence at Eagle Farm on Saturday. It was nice to see him at the races, even if was just for a day. There was no Chadwick to be […]
The latest mail out of Central QLD is that despite its clear shortage of race stewards in the region, the QRIC have stood the vastly experienced and highly liked and respected stipe Kerrie McCracken down from active duty in her usual role as Chief Steward in the Central West, all because her partner is a […]
