Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing Queensland is responsible for determining the maximum field sizes for races at each track, based on its assessment of safety. I strongly believe that it has failed when it comes to allowing 16 horse fields over 1000m at Cluden Park, Townsville. Townsville is a track with a circumference of only 1680 meters. That is […]
Racing QLD don’t usually publish replays of race falls. They have here. It’s race 9 at Townsville. The fall happens in the straight. Les ‘Bubba’ Tilley and Graham Kliese go down. The word is that Bubba has broken his wrist and collarbone. Poor bugger. I hope he gets well soon. Kliese walked back to the […]
Take a look at number 10 that begins from the unruly position (outside of the back line) from this supposed standing start. No horse begins that fast from a stand. If it didn’t get an unfair flyer then my arse doesn’t point to the ground. The starter said it was okay, and the Stewards didn’t […]
By Jon Tuxworth (The Mercury) Tasracing has made the stunning admission there was intel the barrier gates were in the wrong position before this month’s Hobart Cup, revealing a “judgement call” was made to run the race on schedule anyway. Speaking on SEN on Friday, Tasracing chief executive Andrew Jenkins said the review into how […]
The latest mail filtering out of Tasmania is that the Hobart Starter, a highly experienced chap with over three decades in the job, did in fact notice that the barriers were in the wrong position for the start of Sunday’s Hobart Cup. Word is that he challenged the position of the barriers either before or […]
The unconfirmed rumor from around the Brisbane track is that Toowoomba based horseman Lindsay Hatch (pictured above) is giving away training in his own right. Hatch is said to be going to take up a role as stable foreman for his great mate Tony Gollan at the Gold Coast. It is not known when the […]
Look who is back in the cart after 15 years in the wilderness. For multiple NSW premiership winning driver Greg Bennett. As you will recall, the dream team of HNT lawyers and Jim Murdoch KC won Bennett the right to QLD license last month after demonstrating before the QLD Civil and Administrative Tribunal that he […]
Trot Adam Ruggari has been outed for 3 years and 3 months after committing his 4th substance rule breach for one of his horses throwing a positive TCO2 swab. The bloke is clearly a slow learner isn’t he? What smart man milkshakes a horse with absolute confidence unless they are paying the Steward in charge […]
I think trot trainer Jarred Hetherington’s appeal hearing comes up next week in the NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal. Well not his appeal, theirs. Harness Racing NSW’s. Why on God’s earth, at a time that prizemoney is being slashed all over the place, would HRNSW spend large amounts of good industry people’s money paying its lawyers […]
.. that the five trainers whose horses threw them, and who have been charged, were told on the sly by Racing Victoria Stewards that if they pleaded guilty all they would get is a $500 fine. In good faith, and based on the representations made to them, the trainers all pleaded guilty. Then at VRT […]
