Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There were 12 stewards on duty at the Morphettville races on Saturday. At the TAB meeting at Toowoomba on Saturday there were two. The Queensland meeting was called off after three races. They still managed to slip in a clerical error. There is nothing like consistent form is there? You just wonder how on earth […]
Group 1 winning trainer Rob Heathcote insists he made an honest mistake in treating his horses with a banned product, which led to his runners being sensationally scratched by order of stewards at Doomben on Saturday. Heathcote admitted using a product called Hemoplex on his horses. The multiple Group 1 winner said he had been using […]
They are not giving much away at the QRIC anymore. Not even the identity of the official who takes the swabs. It is a classified national security matter. Start telling racing people who’s holding the bottle that the horse urinates in, and before you know it every trainer in town will be on the swab […]
Someone at the QRIC or the race club forgot to take a number 15 saddlecloth to the Barcaldine races on Saturday. Which meant that come the last race where the emergencies gained runs, Lasco didn’t have a number. So someone tore a sheet or tablecloth apart and hand made one. They didn’t do a very […]
If there was only 1 steward at the Chinchilla races yesterday, why were there 2 stewards – one Tony Preston, another his offsider – at the phantom meeting held at Quilpie after the actual meeting was abandoned on Thursday due to the state of he track after the town received some much welcome and long […]
Is this for real? Was there just only Steward – Mr Kim Daly – officiating at yesterday’s Chinchilla race meeting? Did Mr Daly also perform the duties of the Clerk of the Scales? Why were there two judges and two vets, but only one steward and no clerk? How could Mr Daly possibly run the […]
A crupper is a simple but essential piece of harness racing gear that prevents the saddle from slipping forward and keeps all the rest of the gear in place. They cost seventy bucks to buy. Trainer Charlie Chiang sent his pacer Barboo around at Redcliffe on Wednesday in one that was of such poor standard […]
Nobody told me there’d be days like these Strange days indeed Most peculiar, mama The Beatles So Joe Punter’s alarm goes off at 6.00am yesterday, half an hour earlier than usual because he wants to sneak half an hour’s form study and get his bets worked out before he has to get ready for work. […]
Here is yet another protest decision that leave you scratching your head and thinking what the heck? It’s race 7 at Ipswich yesterday. Jaden Lloyd is riding the horse on the inside in the pink and grey. Ryan Maloney is three out in the light blue. Ben Thompson is in the middle in the blue […]
This finish for 3rd in the first race at Beaudesert yesterday was close, but the outside looked to me to have margin on the one on its inner, and I rarely call photos wrong. Just ask Merv Butterworth if you don’t believe me. I called his horse home the winner over the line in the […]
