Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
As we advised yesterday, there was only one swab attendant on duty across the two daytime meetings held in South-East Queensland on New Year’s Day. This attendant was originally rostered to work at the Gatton meeting, but was redeployed to Doomben when race day officials became aware that the main metropolitan meeting did not have […]
A rumour is swirling around that there were no swab attendants at the TAB meeting at Gatton in Queensland today. It seems that the senior race day official who a couple of weeks ago ordered an employee who was awaiting their COVID test result to come to work has been ordered to pull her head […]
Further to our earlier story about the COVID contacts at the Sunshine Coast races on Monday. The unfortunate person infected with the virus is an employee of the Chris Anderson stable. They came into close contact with the swabbies when they were taking a sample. The swabbies came into close contact with the Chairman of […]
We have this afternoon received information that the 2 swab attendants and the veterinary surgeon that worked at the Sunshine Coast race meeting on Monday 27 the December were in close contact with a COVID-19 positive case in the course of performing their duties at the meeting. It is our understanding that the swab attendants […]
Can anyone on earth explain why the Chief Steward would sit on a panel at a meeting and allow his deputy to chair it? That’s what happened at Doomben yesterday, and I am at an absolute loss to understand why. It’s not as if Daniel Aurisch who chaired the meeting needs the experience. He has […]
The incident that you see related above occurred largely out of sight at today’s non-TAB meeting at Mareeba. It was nevertheless a most dangerous piece of stewarding, and very poor judgement on the part of the stipes. Almost every professional athlete believes that they are okay to continue playing/riding/fighting when they are injured or concussed, […]
So if, as the QRIC so publicly state, the former State champion Benjamin Mark Currie is not a fit and proper person to hold either a trainer or strapper’s license in Queensland, why does Racing Queensland continue to prominently display his image on it’s website? Either Ben is totally unfit to participate in the sport […]
A usually accurate and most reliable source has informed us that a senior QRIC race day official, whose name we know but will not at this stage mention, was just the other day advised by a member of staff that that had just undertaken a COVID-19 test, and would be unable to work their next […]
You’d have to think so. After all, official trials and jump outs are run under the same rules of racing. Rafferty’s rules. Or none at all.
This is how you run official jump outs. It’s heat 18 at Clifford Park on Tuesday. Keep your eye on the horse out the back of the barriers. That’s brilliant work isn’t it? Has anyone got a hammer? I feel like hitting myself in the head.
