Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
(4) If a rider breaches subrule (3), the rider’s horse may be disqualified from that race unless that contact was justified by extraordinary circumstances. Does anyone remember this rule? They used to enforce it one, a long, long time ago. These days it is totally ignored. Jockeys come back to scale after a win and […]
Clayton ‘Crayons’ Warren is the best Steward this side of somewhere, although I am not sure where. Probably Muckadilla Siding. There were four clerical errors in six races at Toowoomba on Saturday night. They were announced via on-course semaphore address, although nobody heard it because no-one was there. Crayons put it up on social media […]
Racing writer Ray Thomas declared that Anamoe was on the verge of being a champion after his romp in the Rosehill Guineas last weekend. It was a huge call about a horse who had won just his third Group 1, each of them in age restricted company. We are about to find out whether Ray […]
1. Four horses have won the Queen Elizabeth Stakes three times. Winx is one of them. Name two of the three others. 2. What was the Queen Elizabeth Stakes called before they changed the name? 3. Over what distance was it originally run? 4. Three horses have won the TJ Smith twice or more. Who […]
See number 5 there? It’s not the horse that it supposed to be. The word is that South Australian police officers were at Globe Derby Park yesterday checking on the systems and checks and balance in regard to their ongoing investigation into the Shane Loone runners ring-in a couple of months ago. While the police […]
The news this week is that the Spring Champion Stakes winner Profondo – the $1.9 million yearling sold at the Magic Millions Sale, the colt they called a champion – has had his Autumn carnival campaign aborted, and is being away for the Spring. If you believe that, you believe in fairies. Profondo will never […]
We don’t keep writing about QLD racing steward’s stuff-ups because we are mean girls. We write about them because they keep happening. How does this one work? The QRIC have altered the result of a race six weeks after it happened. After all the bets have been incorrectly paid, and the punters have been ripped […]
A reader sent this to us in response to our story about Nathan Day being handed down a 9-month disqualification for reasons unknown It’s checked and correct. —————————————————————————- N Day provided money to Wally Welburn (clerk of the scales) and Trent Williams (racecourse manager) for unknown reasons, but noting that Wally has been well known […]
Honest Ben Hope has been suspended four times for careless driving in the past 8 weeks. The message clearly isn’t getting through. There’s a reason for that. It’s because the RIB aren’t sending it. Hope’s first two punishments were three day suspensions. Then the RIB decided it needed to get tough and gave him four […]
As you can see there was a massive crowd today at Chinchilla. These Monday meetings in the bush are a great idea from a public spectacle point of view aren’t they? I will tell you what though, they go good from a turnover perspective when there is nothing else on. Each race is holding about […]
