Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A horse named Steel Prince died on the track at Eagle Farm yesterday. His death happened 200m from the winning post, on the first lap of a 2 lap race. The horse suddenly faltered, then suddenly veered sharp left toward the outside fence. It’s jockey Nash Rawiller fell off. Steel Prince headed sideways toward the […]
Queensland’s racing stewards are the finest in the world. They employ their resources well too. In Your Element was the horse we told you about earlier in the week that missed the start by a dozen lengths, caught up to the field, circled them and won. Our boys and girls in the QRIC badges looked […]
Ben Loakes is not a fashionable racehorse trainer. He’s just a battler from the bush. Four months ago the father of the small-time Gladstone-based trainer with a few horses in his care was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The life expectancy of someone with this illness at this stage is just 4-6 months. Ben […]
Is it April Fools Day or something? What the hell are the QRIC Stewards talking about? Doug has a good record in regard to galloping free of interference does he? Bollocks. What’s this? That was seven starts back. How about this one two starts ago? This is what Doug did on Saturday night. Note that […]
We alluded to this a couple of weeks ago but didn’t mention names because negotiations were still ongoing, but now it can be officially confirmed (ahead of the actual official announcement) that Chief Vet Martin Lenz is leaving the QRIC after his position was made redundant. How a Chief Vet’s position can actually be abolished […]
On the 6th of April at Ipswich jockey Nathan Fazackerley came across in a race when he no right to do so, and caused carnage. The Stewards suspended his license for ten days, with an effective start date of midnight on the 15th April, meaning from the 16th onward. That meant that his license was […]
Lacey Morrison got ripped off blind by the Stewards at Gordonvale on Saturday. In race 4 she was denied a protest win by the stipes failing to see Frankie Edwards whip his horse 14 times before the 100m mark, and 25 times in total (see story below). Then in very next race she had her […]
Stewards advised Mr Bowen that a Veterinary Certificate, an ECG Report and the horse would need to undertake an official Barrier Trial prior to racing again. This is another clanger in a series of them made by Stewards at the Gordonvale meeting on Saturday. Who do you reckon is going to ride the ECG and […]
I want to tell you a little story that demonstrates the sheer incompetence of the QRIC thoroughbred steward, and illustrates it for all too see. We are at the Gordonvale races just south of Cairns on Saturday, and it’s race 4. The horse in the blue with the red cap is Magnate, ridden by Frankie […]
The three professional race meetings held at Longreach, Mt Isa and Goondoowindi on the weekend were country cards, meaning that each of the five race cards were worth about $50 000 in prizemoney and QTIC bonus payments. There was only one Steward at each meeting. This poor official had to run the whole show on […]
