Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Graham Dwyer is a gun Queensland trot trainer who ran 4th in the State Premiership championship last year with a win rate of about one in every eight starters from over 850 that he took to the track. Dwyer rarely steers them these days though. In 2022 he drove just 44 times, and won just […]
In the greatest comeback since Lazarus, Darryl Griffiths was recently appointed as the QRIC Chairman of Stewards in North QLD. Perhaps it would have been better if they had appointed someone who actually knew the rules. Griffiths presided at the race meeting at Townsville on the 20th of December. He and his panel gave Nathan […]
The Forfeit List is a register of defaulters, people that owe racing money. A person whose name is entered on the Forfeit List is, under the rules of racing, subject to the same disabilities as a person who is disqualified. That means that they cannot train, ride, race horses, work in a stable or even […]
Epitrenbolone is the metabolite of Altrenogest, meaning it’s the same thing Isn’t it ironic that in the same fortnight that Alligator Al takes QRIC and Racing QLD to town and gets the Alligator’s disqualification overturned, the QRIC release it’s decision in the case of trainer Steve O’Dea for exactly the same thing, an Altrenogest positive, […]
Any man who didn’t inherit a fortune but can live like a millionaire without working since he was in his 40’s, while the rest of the world is clocking on at 9 and leaving at 5, has to be smart. These types usually have a heightened sense of self-defense in advance, and a wicked sense […]
The QRIC have got a new Principal Vet. I was wondering why I couldn’t find his registration when I was doing a search of the Vet Board as prep for a positive story. Then it dawned on me. Despite mentioning the Vet’s name six times in it’s press release, the QRIC don’t actually know his […]
https://www.racingqueensland.com.au/racing/replays/tab-race-replays/stewards-player/thoroughbred/doom/20221214/race/2 Remember the story we wrote last week about how we thought jockey Ryan Wiggins would be getting a very long holiday for rolling in on top of one of the favorites in a race at Doomben and costing it all chance? The one where the Stewards let him off without even a reprimand? Well […]
Nah I am not kidding. It is just not footy as you imagined, it’s the races. Geoffrey ‘Gus’ Goold – a former jockey who was been working as a stipe for 5 years since a horror injury ended his riding career – is about to become the Deputy Chief Steward (Thoroughbred) in Queensland. There you […]
Jean Hose has been done for an offence against the Australian Thoroughbred Rules of Racing. That’s what the QRIC says. It is a bit of a problem. Why? Because Jean trains greyhounds. Click to access Stewards-Report-Jean-Hose-2022.pdf
