Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Can anyone help to work this one out, for it makes no sense to me. Each swab sample taken and analysed by the QRIC costs $327. That was the budgeted figure last year (number on left), and it is the same number in the current year (number on right). Numbers don’t lie, do they? If […]
This is the worst Steward’s decision in the world, and the dodgiest one too. A teenage kid claims more allowance on runners at a non-TAB meeting than he is entitled to, by mistake. The mistake is not his, it is the Stewards. The Chief Steward had issued an edict some time back decreeing that apprentices […]
This wise missive was sent in by a regular reader in response to our story about the Steward’s mistreatment of apprentice jockey Cody Collis Hello Archie Your article today articulates exactly what does happen in that and a lot of work places. The little vulnerable guy gets the arse kicking when really he is learning, […]
QLD Deputy Chief Steward Daniel Aurisch sucking up to Her Royal Horseness Zara Phillips. He’d be better off doing his leadership job by applying the rules properly and fairly instead Yesterday we told you the story about how last week the Bundaberg Stewards panel had wrongly assessed and approved apprentice jockey Cody Collis’ allowance as […]
you The QRIC have reacted admirably to the embarrassing balls up by their Stewards at the Townsville greyhounds on Tuesday night. Well sort of anyway. No, not really. They’ve just made it worse. QRIC Chief Greyhound Steward Alex Kitching has front footed the issue by saying an investigation has been launched into the Rake Affair, […]
The great rake debacle in Townsville last night wasn’t an accident, it was negligence on the part of the paid QRIC officials who were in charge of the meeting. What happened next when the Stewards swept the gross error under the carpet and declared the rake a race was something worse. There are so many […]
Last night the Toowoomba meeting was abandoned mid-stream due to what the Clifford Park club says was a lighting issue beyond its control. I am reliably told that there is a whole lot more to the story to that. Will the Stewards tell the full tale in their official report? Or we will have to? […]
