Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How can it possibly take six years to conduct and conclude what should have been a relatively simple Stewards Inquiry into a horse throwing a positive swab? I don’t care how many excuses about delays and unavailable witnesses that the stipes throw up, that is just duck shoving. No inquiry should take this long, and […]
In another free promotion for the peterprofit.com website, today Ben Dorries has ‘revealed’ that a QLD jockey rode a winner while he was supposed to be out suspended. If you recall, we actually broke the story for 4 weeks ago. You always hear it here first. QLD Race Stewards – When Only the Best Will […]
In Queensland the answer is seven. See the official Stewards Report from Eagle Farm yesterday (above)? Ingratiating was slow to begin and raced wide without cover it says. I backed Ingratiating. It is the horse in the Godolphin blue in the replay below. As you can see, Ingratiating never, ever left the fence, not even […]
Anyone standing at the Eagle Farm gates waiting for them to open at around 10.00am yesterday morning must have thought the track was being invaded when an army of 21 QRIC soldiers sprung out of land transports and charged toward the course. The 7 Stewards, 4 Judges, 3 swabbies, 2 Clerks of Scales, 3 Starters […]
This scrawny, mangy ghost of a horse is King Kulafu. My mate The Boxer owned him until a couple of weeks ago. He last saw him at the start of May before he left for Thailand to get married. At that stage the King was a healthy, well muscled, fit horse. The King raced at […]
Clayton ‘Crayons’ Warren is a Senior Stipendiary Steward with the QRIC, and the acting Chief Steward on the Darling Downs. Crayons chairs the panel at the Toowoomba race meetings, and is the man in charge. Or at least he was until yesterday. But now all of a sudden he’s the Stewards Secretary, the junior who […]
A horse named Steel Prince died on the track at Eagle Farm yesterday. His death happened 200m from the winning post, on the first lap of a 2 lap race. The horse suddenly faltered, then suddenly veered sharp left toward the outside fence. It’s jockey Nash Rawiller fell off. Steel Prince headed sideways toward the […]
Queensland’s racing stewards are the finest in the world. They employ their resources well too. In Your Element was the horse we told you about earlier in the week that missed the start by a dozen lengths, caught up to the field, circled them and won. Our boys and girls in the QRIC badges looked […]
Ben Loakes is not a fashionable racehorse trainer. He’s just a battler from the bush. Four months ago the father of the small-time Gladstone-based trainer with a few horses in his care was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The life expectancy of someone with this illness at this stage is just 4-6 months. Ben […]
Is it April Fools Day or something? What the hell are the QRIC Stewards talking about? Doug has a good record in regard to galloping free of interference does he? Bollocks. What’s this? That was seven starts back. How about this one two starts ago? This is what Doug did on Saturday night. Note that […]
