Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the back of a totally unexpected boom in wagering revenue during lockdown season, Racing Queensland have delivered a super impressive (on paper) $11.5 profit this year, and the whole Deagon office is walking around high-fiving and slapping each other backs. Enjoy it while you can RQ can-can dancers, for the bad times are just […]
When a dual licensed jockey/trainer has a runner in a race they are not allowed to ride any other horse. Black and white, no ifs or buts, full stop, end of story. As we told you a few days ago, dual licensee Cheryl Rogers rode a horse in the 2nd race at Gayndah against one […]
For the second week in a row the official Queensland Stewards Reports for the weekend’s gallops meetings have not been published over the weekend, and racing people all over the State are being staved of information the opportunity to make an early start to their form. It can’t be due ta technical glitch, for the […]
Cheryl Rogers trained the winner of the QTIS maiden at Gayndah yesterday aboard a hitherto very slow horse named Twogoboom, which had been bashing around tracks like Gympie, Gladstone and Talwood for 30 starts without saluting the judge, and had only been placed four times, but turned its form on its head. It was a […]
It’s not good for business to be giving your competitor’s a boost, but I am just a mug racing writer not a businessman so what does it matter? This article by David Fowler* published on justhorseracing.com.au about the Ben Currie travesty is an excellent short analysis of both Currie’s current situation and of the systemic […]
Engagement, Education, Enforcement. The QRIC loves its E’s. The much-loved, highly effective and widely admired as hard but fair Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) released it’s Annual Report today. The headline story is that they came in on budget with a little bit left, and are spending it on a celebratory function (i.e. big lunch […]
Quick Verse is a beautifully bred 7-year-old mare who was sold for $140 000 at the 2015 Gold Coast Magic Millions sale and sent to David Hayes to train. Sadly she couldn’t go a yard, and after 5 flops the owners gave up and she was sold on an online auction to clients of Johnny Manzelmann’s […]
Two months age we told you about the mass failures of the starting barriers at Gatton, and put forth a position that if the club was unable to secure funding for new stalls or to repair the existing faulty ones then it’s license to race should be stripped from it. Well here we are today […]
We all know about Ben Currie and why he got disqualified. His stable staff administered boost paste – a totally legal sold over the counter at Garrards Horse and Hound amino acid tonic, with huge therapeutic and health benefits – to a horse named Eight Over on the morning of a race, which was in […]
Isn’t it good to see that Ben Currie seems to have matured, realised the mistakes of his past and put his hand up to them, and actively taken the right steps to make sure that they don’t happen again? The interview he did with Ben Dorries of Racenet yesterday showed us a new side of […]
