Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The most curious racing case of the year was heard yesterday in the Supreme Court. QRIC took the the QCAT to the court to appeal the tribunal’s decision to overturn their (QRIC’s) determination to deny trot driver Greg Bennett back into the game after 15 years in the wilderness by granting him a license. QRIC […]
After 15 years in harness racing’s wilderness, former champion NSW reinsman Greg Bennett’s long march to freedom is over after the QLD Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) this week declared Bennett to be a fit and proper person to hold a Class A Driver’s License. In 2011 was stood down from the sport and later […]
The Kevin Seymour owned/Grant Dixon trainer Path To Greatness galloped away from the stand in the Flashing Red at Albion Park on Saturday night. Watch. It’s the horse drawn second from the outside in the Dixon black and white checked silks. Path To Greatness no doubt gallops. You can see it clearly. In any usual […]
The Stewards at Warwick claimed to be comfortably satisfied that apprentice jockey Chloe Lowe carried the correct weight in the 5th race. On what basis could they possibly have said that? Lowe didn’t weigh in. No knock to the apprentice. But how could they know?
Take a look at this drive of Adam Sanderson’s on the long odds on favorite Bling Your A Game in race 7 at Redcliffe last Friday week. It the deadest thing you have ever seen in your life. Bling Your A Game was backed from $2.40 into $1.45. Sanderson stopped it. Not just from winning, […]
Could M Hurley in the Stewards report from Albion Park on Thursday be one and the same Michael Hurley, the former NSW harness racing Steward who since 2006 had been working as a real estate agent up to and until the time in 2020 when he became involved in an altercation with former trot driver […]
QRIC have today (Thursday) conducted mass scale unannounced visits to trainers and racing participants at Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast and issued directions to a number of people to hand over their phones. It is believed that the following participants complied with the direction, and that their phones are now in the possession of the […]
It’s news to me that jockey Chris Whiteley had married fellow rider Wanderon D’Avila, or that he had adopted the Brazilian bred hoop’s last name. But I am glad that Australia allows people who want to pledge their life long commitment to each other to fulfill their dreams. I am all for it. Let love […]
Rule AHR90A – Trainer Licence (2.6) An applicant for a trainer’s licence Grade A must have satisfactorily completed all training modules applicable to a trainer’s licence Grade B and held such licence for not less than 12 months unless the Controlling Body decides otherwise. We told you last week about how QLD trot trainer Ryan […]
Do you recall the bad fall at Townsville in February in which Bubba Tilley and Graham Kliese hit the deck? The fall that caused Bubba to break his collarbone and Kliese his wrists? The one we blamed on the crazily large field sizes from the 1000m start? Bubba and Kliese Survive the Fall – But […]
