Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Before the sun rose on Wednesday morning we published an article highlighting the absence of any published Stewards reports from greyhound meetings run over the previous 5 days, and in it questioned whether the reports were being vetted prior to publication. By 10.00am that morning all the Stewards Reports went up. Funny that isn’t it?
QRIC Deputy Commissioner Kim Kelly claims that on the evidence of his inspections and this track gallop, there are no issues with the meeting going ahead on Saturday at this stage at all, and that if required they could have raced on Gold Coast track yesterday. Now we are usually huge fans of Kelly, and […]
January 8, 2025 Racing Queensland advises senior jockeys will gallop on the course proper at the Gold Coast Turf Club on Thursday morning to help determine which venue will host The Star Gold Coast Magic Millions Raceday. With remediation to the Gold Coast Turf Club course proper scheduled to be completed today, stakeholders are planning […]
There have been 7 greyhound meetings since last Thursday. As of 5.00am today there has been no Stewards Report published for any of them. Stewards Reports have been published for every gallops and thoroughbred meeting held during the same period. And someone people try to tell you that the greyhound reports are not being vetted […]
In a decision that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, Queensland trot trainer Ryan Veivers has been suspended for just 3 months after pleading guilty t0 three charges of failing to properly care for horses he was responsible for. The convictions arose as a result of QRIC officials having conducted an unannounced inspection of […]
The Stewards officiating at Saturday’s Toowoomba meeting channeled Santa by the way they practiced the true Xmas spirit of giving,. Giving reprieves not fines or suspensions I mean. Apprentice Dylan Bennett allowed his mount Beirut Miss to shift in when not fully clear of Good Times Again near the 1100m, taking that runner in, obliging […]
The inconsequential 3-month suspension issued to a trainer for groping a young female jockey as he legged her up in the mounting yard at a recent Queensland race meeting set me to thinking about the uselessness of revoking a person’s ability to race at meetings they never would have raced at anyway. This flaw in […]
We told you last month about a trainer having been stood down for inappropriately touching a young female jockey as she was being legged up aboard the horse she was riding for him at a country QLD meeting. Inappropriate is not actually the right word to describe the trainer’s outrageous actions – it was an […]
Breaking news out of Rockhampton is that the QRIC have raided the stables of trainer Nick Walsh after one of his horses threw banned steroid Stanozolol in the trainer’s possession. Older readers might remember that drug, it’s the one that the cheating sprinter Ben Johnson was using when he ran 9.79 seconds for the 100m […]
This above and below is what happens to a horse when it suffers a heart attack during a race. Ancient Style did not do this. Its off-forequarter gave way and it plunged head first into the turf. There is a cover-up going on here in an attempt to hide the fact that the Stewards had […]
