Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
For years now everyone has known that the current racing appeals system in Queensland is broken and needs urgent repair. The ‘independent’ Internal Review system is a bad joke, with the reviewer not being independent at all, but rather an employee of the QRIC who can be hired and fired by the Commissioner, and as […]
Palaszczuk Government acts on Racing industry concerns The Palaszczuk Government makes no excuses for its reforms to protect the integrity of Queensland’s $1.2 billion racing industry. Further industry consultation throughout 2021, highlighted the need for a Racing Appeals Panel independent of the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC). This new independent Racing Appeals Panel will replace all current internal reviews and the majority of QCAT appeals. Minister for Racing, Grace Grace said “We have long shared industries concerns with […]
You would have read about the two jockeys who blew over the limit at Doomben on Tuesday morning. I know who they are but I’m not saying. Just like the QRIC aren’t saying that the reason they sent the storm troopers out with their breathalysers before dawn is because they got a tip from some […]
The QRIC have denied a number of racing identities licenses in recent months on the amorphous and totally random grounds of ‘character’, most notably the State’s former leading training Ben Currie, but a whole host of others as well, each of whom the regulator – and seeming power unto itself – deem not to be […]
Lyn Noble is the wife of the disgraced former trainer Tom, the warned off for life owner/operator of the illegal unlicensed track at which wrongsters used to live bait, the one in the horrific Four Corners documentary. Tom and Lyn Noble profited from live baited blood, and became reasonably wealthy from it too. If they […]
The QLD Stewards now led by Terry Bailey’s boy Wade Hadley rock up unannounced to a dog trainer’s place the other day. They demand that the trainer give them a blue cooler bag. It’s not drugs that they are after, because there are none in the bag. What they are after is a wallet that’s […]
There were four TAB gallops meetings held in Queensland yesterday, at Caloundra, the Gold Coast, Toowoomba and Roma. So the QRIC employed its full resources and sent the Integrity Investigation Team to do surprise inspections at Gympie. It was time and money well spent, They caught one trainer who put mineral salted mud on its […]
You have got to be good to let a field go without telling the riders, and do it while one of them is not even on their horse. I’m not blaming Larry Lewis, the starter at Clermont who did it in the 3rd race yesterday afternoon. He’s just a race loving bloke who works at […]
This is recent CCTV camera from a Rockhampton pub. The bloke who gets whacked is Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day. He’s the good guy here. The bad guy is trainer Jamie McConaghy, the fella who hits him, gets ejected, and then comes back for a second crack while the bouncer’s back is turned. How it unfolds is […]
This is race 2 at Gatton on Monday. If Michael Hellyer wasn’t a good horseman and jockey he might well be dead or in a wheelchair for life as we speak. There was a hole in the track where his horse fell. You can’t see it in the videos, but multiple trainers and jockeys have […]
