Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Two weeks ago we tipped you into the fact that Rickie Alchin had deliberately driven his horse Soho Rhapsody dead in a race at Menangle in order to shed ratings points to allow it to get back to an NR70 so it could compete in the heats of the $100 000 Regional Championships a fortnight […]
SOHO RHAPSODY Stewards questioned driver Rickie Alchin with regards to the tactics he adopted in the early and latter stages of the event, whereby he was unable to hold his spot in the running line upon entry to the first turn and elected to steer his runner down the track upon entry to the home […]
JALANEEL– Became unbalanced and broke gait during the middle stages of the score up and was out of position at the start. JALANEEL trailed the field by a considerable distance for the remainder of the event. The hopples of JALANEEL were measured and were found to be within an accepted tolerance. A warning was placed on JALANEEL. Yeah he indeed […]
Here we go again. Driver Blake Fitzpatrick gets questioned about his maggot dead drive on Jalaneel in the 3rd race at Menangle on Saturday night. He tells the Stewards that he decided to go back from the wide gate. And? Nothing. We don’t get any explanation whatsoever for Fitzpatrick’s shocker in the straight on the […]
Baking soda made pacers hot to trot Tom Reilly, Chris Roots September 4, 2011 It’s a cocktail of drugs that could fuel Keith Richards: cocaine, speed and Viagra. All these substances, though, have been given to trotting horses in the past two years by desperate NSW trainers willing to break the sport’s rules to gain […]
Why in this modern age of equality does Racing Queensland continue to practice sexism when it comes to promoting the sport? At a time when the leading trainers in NSW, Victoria and QLD are all women (Belinda McCarthy/Kerry Ann Morris, Emma Stewart and Chantal Turpin), and women are in the top 10 on every State […]
Watch out the back behind the barriers. This wasn’t supposed to happen in the 5th at Gordonvale yesterday. Lucky the horse didn’t run back around into the field isn’t it? Oops.
Week after week Regional Cast seems to find another way to let Queensland country racegoers down. This week is was filming the races at Hughenden from a thousand miles away without a zoom lens, and not filming the races at Clermont near the thriving town of Moranbah at all. I guess the latter was a […]
I have no idea what the driver of the horse in the 1-1 Jonny Cox was thinking when he turned a repeatedly punched the horse behind him in this race, but I am sure he will have plenty of time to reflect on his actions as he serves what should be a lengthy suspension or […]
This is the David Tootell fall at Port Augusta today. As strange as it may sound, Tootel is a very lucky man. When is this all going to stop? Yesterday would be good.
