Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
D0n’t mess with Doctor Dream He’s not one for sympathyHe will bring you to your kneesLose your troublesEase your pain This is the price you must pay Remember this story below? Re-read it if you don’t. It’s about how the QRIC kept a dog with a broken leg out in the sun writhing in pain, […]
30 March 2023 Australian Rule of Racing AR36A, which stipulates fitness and propriety restrictions on persons who can own or race a horse, comes into effect in Queensland this Saturday 1 April 2023. Under AR36A, Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) stewards may restrict any person from owning or racing a horse if they consider that […]
Are these Central-West QRIC Stewards for real? Is the recently appointed Chief Steward Gary Meek for real? They and he might think they are, but I am not sure that they’re living in the same world as us. This is the 2nd time this month that trainers have been reprimanded for bringing a bottle of sauce […]
Every bastard wants to bash Ben Currie, and call him a cocaine cheat. Currie is the Danny Nikolic of QLD. Just their names are enough to give them a spell, even when they have done nothing wrong. Ben Currie is putting coke on the tongue tie of his horses is the inference that the QRIC […]
Ryan Backhouse is only 18, I get that. But trot racing is a big kids game, and people invest hundreds of thousands of dollars on each race. They expect better than what young Backhouse gave them in the last at Melton on Saturday night, and if the lad can’t deliver it while he’s a teenager […]
STEWARDS REPORT – RACE 8 8 There’s A Shadow – Shortened stride and appeared injured in the back straight. and lost ground around the second turn. A post-race veterinary examination revealed a nearside front stopper bone injury and stood down from racing for 42 days and will need to perform a veterinary clearance trial. This will […]
In what sport in the world are a bunch of largely unqualified officials left to decide whether breaking the rules to win okay or not? Mmm, Ben Johnson was juiced up on Stanozolol, but would he have won the 100m gold at the Seoul Olympics if he wasn’t IOC Ian? Of course he would have […]
QRIC Stewards on Wednesday handed down their penalties against the three participants in the Birdsville jigger case. Trainer Todd Austin – who the stipes clearly believe ordered the jock to give the horse the spark, and was thus the prime offender – got 5 years. The jock Ric McMahon was given 3 1/2, presumably a […]
Thoroughbred rules QRIC Chief thoroughbred steward Josh Adams said the Commission is concerned about reports of owners lay betting against a horse in which they were connected. “Under no circumstances are the connections of a thoroughbred racehorse permitted to lay a horse in their care and or ownership,” he said. “If connections breach AR 237 they may […]
In about the middle of last year the NZ trainer/driver Terry Chmiel was locked in certainty to come to QLD to take up a job as a QRIC Steward. He’d been offered the role and accepted it, and was in the process of selling off his stable stock and moving them over to other trainers, […]
