Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ballard the lawyer with the yank accent kicks off the QRIC’s case. She said that Grubby’s fine was well inside the range, and quotes a number of cases to support her argument. Then she starts raving. Judge O’Brien jumps in. doesn’t seem to know who Grubby is. He keeps calling him jockey Butler. O’Brien tells […]
Darryl Griffiths kicks off. He says that Grubby was definitely sighted at the track at around 1pm and then took off. In many years of Stewarding he had never had a rider leave without telling the Stewards. Griffiths then raises the elephant in the room. He tells the panel that the booze bus arrived and […]
Grubby Day tells the panel that he usually sweats in the spa at home, but Ewan being in the middle of nowhere (as he describes it) there were no facilities of that kind. So he had to go old school by wrapping himself in plastic and hitting the street to go for a run in […]
Justice O’Brien begins to deliver the Panel’s verdict. He starts by saying it is appropriate to read Grubby’s appeal submission in full. It’s much as we’ve already reported. O’Brien then launches into the Stewards decision to charge Grubby and find him guilty. He explains that Grubby doesn’t have to prove himself innocent, the onus is […]
Despite suffering a $20 million decline in wagering revenue in the past year as part of a national trend, Peter V’Landys oft criticized micro-management of Racing NSW finances has steered the organization to record a bumper profit of $12.6 million for the 2023/24 financial year. And he’s done while increasing prizemoney by $36 million at […]
Harness Racing Victoria’s website thetrots.con.au hasn’t had individual sectional times for any races in the last 2 years available for over a week. HRV says that it is experiencing technical problems that its working on fixed, whatever that means. That it hasn’t fixed the problems yet is the sort of poor effort that we’ve come […]
Gee Grant Dixon’s second stringer Aroda was stiff not to get a starting spot in the NZ Trotting Cup. Some might say its karma coming back to bite owner and Albion Park Chairman Greg Mitchell for supporting his sex-offender CEO Scott Steele in court and returning him to his job, and that may well be […]
No-one can ever accuse the QRIC Stewards of being consistent. This was vividly illustrated on Melbourne Cup day when Five riders at five different Queensland tracks were pinched for failing to fully ride their mounts out to the finish line. Remarkably each received a different penalty for the exact same offence. How can that be? […]
Dear Peter Profit I want to share with you my thoughts and those of some of my long time mates about the recent shocking publicity surrounding the management of Albion Park trots. The other day I opened the Courier Mail and there large as life was a big picture of the previously stood down CEO […]
You couldn’t have scripted this year’s New Zealand Trotting Cup (which is really a pace) any better if you’d tried. The will he or won’t he drama with Leap To Fame, the last minute entry of Swayzee onto the scene, the NZ North Island Horse of the Year Merlin v the Australian Horse of the […]
