Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Further mail has been received about the QRIC restructure of the Stewarding ranks. Our sources inside the bubble tell us that the Integrity Unit is definitely being disbanded. All positions in it are likely to become redundant. Eight new positions will be created. Three will be in Brisbane. Five will be in Regional QLD, and […]
The latest mail on the internal ructions at QRIC are that the Integrity Investigations Team (IIT) is the group that is being targeted in the latest sweep of the broom wielded by the new(ish) executive management team that is now running the organisation. Word is that the IIT in it’s present form is going to […]
Jockey Ric McMahon has delivered bombshell evidence in the first day of the Birdsville Cup jigger stewards’ inquiry, claiming trainer Todd Austin handed him the electrical device and told him to use it on a horse’s neck during track work. McMahon told the Doomben hearing that Austin handed him a jigger to use on one […]
There are deep internal runctions about what appears to be a restructure going in inside the QRIC, with at least three integrity officials we are told in the gun, and fearful for their futures. People don’t get sacked in the public sector, not unless they have their hand in the till or act entirely inappropriately […]
The Stewards report into the Luke Tarrant fall at the Sunshine Coast last week has been finalised. It was no-one’s fault that Tarrant fell they found. And Shane Dye didn’t get Veandercross beaten in the ’92 Caulfield Cup either. Puhlease. The title says it all. You can read out earlier story about the fall at […]
Star apprentice jockey Jasmine Cornish had a terrible fall in a trial at the Beaudesert race last week. The track is named Aquis Beaudesert. It is owned and operated by the Gold Coast Turf Club (GCTC), one of the wealthiest racing clubs in Queensland, and the current recipient of at least $63 million in State […]
The Ric McMahon case comes on for mention in the Magistrates Court this morning. We are told by our friends in the north that the great racing man Wally Tutt, a former District Court judge who is making a comeback to the law as a solicitor after many years post being forced by his age […]
This jockey wasn’t caught with a jigger. The charges are based on the pictures taken by an innocent, well meaning photographer that were spotted by us, and published in a story on this website. In the absence of admissions or lag ups, this the best the prosecution got. Which means that the whole case hinges […]
It seems that the QRIC have been doing a ring around of the clubs to inform them that the information that I published this morning about my interpretation that the QLD Racing Integrity Act applies in cases of conflicts with the rules – for example, in relation to inspections and ‘random’ out of competition drug […]
Q. At what point are they turned on? A. BWCs allow authorised officers to collect audio and video recordings while working out in the field. Fieldwork includes situations such a routine stable/kennel inspections, animal welfare investigations, and race day Steward’s inquiries Comment: Do you notice that at no stage do QRIC ever answer it’s own […]
