Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See the man in the moleskins and country hat, with his back to the camera? That’s Ross Neal, the former New Zealand Chief Steward now working on the tools in regional north-west Queensland. What’s he doing there at the starting stalls? You can’t steward much from that spot, which is why Stewards never until now […]
Original Stewards Report (above), and amendment to report (top) In the wake of our story about the whip battle between C. Meehan and T. Chambers at Rockhampton yesterday the QRIC has updated its official Stewards report to include reference to an inquiry that will be held into the incident. Whilst it remains a mystery how […]
Queensland’s most suspended apprentice jockey clearly didn’t make a new years resolution to ride with care, for he has started 2025 in much the same manner that he left 2o24. Suspended for careless riding. We speak of course about Dan McGillivray, the lesser talented of the errant jockey brothers (Matthew McGillivray being the other), and […]
Rule AHR90A – Trainer Licence (2.6) An applicant for a trainer’s licence Grade A must have satisfactorily completed all training modules applicable to a trainer’s licence Grade B and held such licence for not less than 12 months unless the Controlling Body decides otherwise. We told you last week about how QLD trot trainer Ryan […]
Archie, In regard to your story about the Steward demanding the tongue tie go on when it wasn’t supposed to. If it was supposed to go on and the strapper had left it off, they would cop a fine of hundred or two! So what does the Steward in this case get? Promoted, if other […]
Archie. I read your piece on Kim Kelly. He may be a great steward (just ask him), but in my view he is a terrible Deputy Commissioner. Mr Kelly appears to have zero interest in the greyhounds. We had a Group 1 meeting during the week that you’d expect the most senior QRIC integrity official […]
It was QRIC Deputy Commissioner Kim Kelly who made the decision to race the Magic Millions meeting at the Gold Coast in preference to transferring the meeting to Eagle Farm or the Sunshine Coast, so he will have to wear the blame for the day’s racing being postponed after just three races were run. We […]
Don’t Call Me Honey was directed to wear a tongue tie at Eagle Farm on Wednesday, even though it’s not part of the horse’s registered gear and the connections didn’t want to. With the tongue tie-on the horse race fiercely in front and went too fast for it to me any competitive hope at the […]
What was surely one of the last racing appeals heard by QCAT under the old (pre-Racing Appeals Panel) system was also one of the most ridiculous too. QRIC Stewards had found Kyle Wilson-Taylor guilty of improper riding in a midweek race at Doomben in the winter of 2022 and suspended him for 4 weeks. KWT […]
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?
