Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There have been eleven applications for an Internal Review (appeals) determined by the QRIC’s ‘independent’ reviewer this year. 10 out of the 11 appeals against penalty have been rejected. That damn Sharlee Hoffman (formerly D’Avila, much to her chagrin) had to go and spoil the Stewards perfect score. Good. She was innocent anyway. I’m not […]
We have had a couple of calls since we put up the story about Jaden Lloyd being allowed to claim 2 kilos off Hatchet’s weight when he replaced the over weight Ryan Maloney at the last minute in the $127 500 QTIS 3YO Handicap at Caloundra on Saturday, and most of them are saying that […]
The rule that is printed at the top of this page relates to the replacement of riders at race meetings, in situations where for whatever reason one jockey cannot meet their declared commitment to take the mount, and another jockey must ride it instead. The words in the rule are simple and clear – another […]
Twelve days ago Secret King got beaten by 10 and 1/2 lengths in a maiden at Toowoomba. The start before that he got beaten 7.2 lengths in one at Kilcoy, and the run prior to that he ran 9th of 11 beaten ten lengths at Rocky. Yesterday he stepped out in the 2nd race at […]
There were six Stewards on duty at the Ipswich gallops yesterday. God only knows why, for a single monkey would have sufficed. A horse named Buddy’s Tale was backed from $41 into $16 in race three. The plunge was a mystery to all – until the race was run anyway – for its form read […]
Queensland does not just have a shortage of jockeys. We have a shortage of Stewards too. If you have at least one leg, an eye or ear (applicants with neither will still be considered under the QRIC Equal Employment Opportunity policy), are prepared to kiss Pete Chadwick and his boss Shane Gillard’s arse, hate Archie […]
Thanks to some brilliant work by Queensland’s most comfortable retiree Gold Coast Greg, we have some numbers on the Queensland swabs for you. There have been 7 Saturday metropolitan meetings held this year. Two of them were Magic Millions meetings, at which everyone from the Integrity Department of the QRIC converges en masse, because: (a) […]
There is a rumour running around that Queensland Harness Racing Chief Steward David Farquharson is unvaccinated and won’t get the jab, but for some reason is being treated differently than other front line public servants like police officers and school teachers and nurses who refuse the vax and get sacked, because he is being allowed […]
There were nine races today at Doomben, and six pre-race samples taken. 9 + 6 = 15 I like numbers. They tell you things, and allow you to work other things out by following their patterns. What a cursory analysis of the swab numbers reported in Queensland thoroughbred racing official Stewards Reports tells me is […]
I am buggered if I know who the horse trainer Jack Brown is. All I know about the bloke is: (a) He trained his first winner in 2013 (b) From 139 starters in a decade, Brown has trained just 9 winners (c) Jackie boy’s strike rate is 6% (d) On Saturday he raced a horse […]
