Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie You are wrong about the Stewards inspection at Wondai. I was there. Steward Simon Fletcher didn’t just drive the car around the track an hour before the first. He got out multiple times and poked a measuring stick into the track. Testing I don’t know what. He alighted from the car and proudly displayed […]
Bailey Wheeler was excused for accepting a mount in race 1 at Eagle Farm yesterday that he couldn’t ride, the Stewards say for acceptable reasons. Five hours later Wheeler turns up at Toowoomba and has four rides. Toowoomba is only a 1 hour and 40 minute drive from Eagle Farm, and if you don’t have […]
Twenty minutes after our story about the major handicapping error in race 4 at Townsville today was published, QRIC issued the above tweet on its official X account acknowledging the mistake and advising punters who hadn’t already read it here that it had happened. A few minutes later the tweet disappeared, presumably having been removed […]
I am not sure whether to describe what went on at yesterday’s non-TAB meeting at Wondai in QLD as a tragedy or a farce. It was probably both, and there but for the grace of God could have been a whole lot worse. A runner in the first race fell. Henry’s Blade was its name, […]
Can anyone tell me what Matt Elkins did different in this race at Albion Park yesterday to Angus Garrard than what Garrard did to Elkins in the race that we wrote about at the same track on Saturday night? It looked exactly the same to me. The outcome was different though. No action was taken […]
Angus Garrard is driving the horse 3-back the outside in the red white and blue. Matt Elkins is on the horse coming around Garrard three-wide. Garrard comes out under Elkins illegally and cannons into him, sending him sliding sideways from the impact and causing his horse to break into a wild gallop and lose all […]
Yesterday trainer/jockey Cheryl Rogers – whose surname does not contain a D, regardless of what the official Stewards report says – applied to ride the horse that she owns and trains Prince Carlos a half kilo overweight, claiming that the Prince is better suited to senior riders due to its racing manners. With only apprentices […]
I have problems with Stewards whose judgement is so poor that they friend racing licensees on Facebook. In my opinion it shows a clear lack of judgement, and failure to understand clear lines. Alex Streckbein chaired the meeting at Warwick yesterday. He is former Racing Victoria Steward of limited experience, who has obviously been appointed […]
Dashing was the $2.60 favorite to win the 6th race at Albion Park on Saturday night. If he had been driven properly he probably would have won it too. But Nathan Dawson didn’t drive him properly at all. He drove the favorite in a manner that looked for all appearances like he wanted it to […]
A question has recently arisen about whether every greyhound trainer in QLD who employs staff are paying the requisite workers compensation premiums to ensure that these low paid workers are covered by insurance for lost wages, medical bills and possible disability payouts in the case of injury. The answer as far as we can ascertain […]
