Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We have written at length about the QRIC’s hidden budgetary issues that have hindered the QLD integrity agency’s capacity to perform pre-race blood testing at meetings outside of the majors, and the issue continues apace. It is making Queensland racing a milkshake maker’s paradise, and a lawless land where drenchers wander free and run rampant. […]
One of the basic duties of a race day Steward’s job is to check that horses have the right brand, are carrying the correct saddle cloth, and are wearing their notified gear. Brand marking XYZ123. Tick. Saddlecloth number 7. Tick. Blinkers. Oops, I forgot to check. That is what happened in race 7 at Toowoomba […]
In October 2020 the QRIC conducted a surprise stable inspection on the Friday before a race day and discovered that prominent trainer Chris Munce had injected one of his runners the next day with an unidentified substance. Munce claimed that it was a vitamin solution, but with only an empty syringe and his word to […]
Personation is a legal term for pretending to be someone else, for the purpose of gaining a benefit for yourself or a related party, or to cause a detriment to another. An example of personation would be writing a letter or email under the name of another and pretending that you as author are them, […]
The integrity of Queensland racing has been questionable for a long time. Strange decisions are being made by Stewards. Swabs are rarer than a Penny Black stamp. Even stranger things are being ignored. Just when you thought the huge concerns couldn’t become any deeper, yesterday at the Sunshine Coast they did. Watch the replay […]
Comeback jockey Michael Murphy has been given a million chances by just about everybody in racing. After yesterday I have come to the conclusion that he doesn’t deserve any. Murphy was riding the horse in the white colours behind the leader in the 6th at Rockhampton yesterday. A gap opened up between the two horses […]
Earlier in the week we wrote about the outrageous form reversal of the Chris Waller trained Merimee, the horse who went from winning like Winx at a Saturday metro meeting in Brisbane to running second last in a race several grades lower on Wednesday at the Sunshine Coast. As you can see from the fluctuations […]
On the 23rd of February 2022 the license of Dalby based trainer David Reynolds was suspended indefinitely until the hearing of serious criminal charges against him, and his seeming inevitable sentence that appears likely may involve a term of imprisonment. Reynolds was given seven days to amend the bona fides and to arrange a transfer […]
David Reynolds (above), alleged criminal on bail, posing for the official photographer at the Queensland Country Racing Awards in Emerald a month ago.
There have been eleven applications for an Internal Review (appeals) determined by the QRIC’s ‘independent’ reviewer this year. 10 out of the 11 appeals against penalty have been rejected. That damn Sharlee Hoffman (formerly D’Avila, much to her chagrin) had to go and spoil the Stewards perfect score. Good. She was innocent anyway. I’m not […]
