Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the 23rd of February 2022 the license of Dalby based trainer David Reynolds was suspended indefinitely until the hearing of serious criminal charges against him, and his seeming inevitable sentence that appears likely may involve a term of imprisonment. Reynolds was given seven days to amend the bona fides and to arrange a transfer […]
David Reynolds (above), alleged criminal on bail, posing for the official photographer at the Queensland Country Racing Awards in Emerald a month ago.
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 […]
