Very interesting to see the list of attendee's at yesterday's gabfest re trainers and QRIC........airing of grievances etc.......I bet you could cut the air with a knife......it got a bit heated....I bet it did, I've been to a few trainers meetings with Barnett and Parnell, they were beige fests......now being honest they need someone like Dion Villella from RVL flying squad to perch outside some licensed premises early morn and go in all guns blazing....but they haven't got the money.......cheats need to be caught in the act, supposition and innuendo don't cut it.......go full on, Raceday, quick morning, slow morning, any morning.....just do it...be seen to do it, it's not effen rocket science, they aren't that clever .......just clued to whats going down....... 

He must be working 'part time'?

A start would be, forget prizemoney increases, invest in new testing technologies and science, the rumours of a synthetic EPO are no secret, apparently there is a LAB in France that has discovered a test for this, the latest scandal to hit the USA with the alleged positives with the Baffert stable should spark some interest....you would think? Raceday testing is paramount and subsequent mandatory stand downs should people be 'caught in the act' so to speak.......this mouthing off that we can't do much about the penalty appeals and QCAT etc........where's the opposition, the LNP in all of this? they should be going at this like a dog on a bone......but they are useless, if it keeps going the way it is, no one will bet up here.....transparency and good governance, that breeds respect.......when that happens up here, I'll race my horses here, I'm not hopeful that will happen, it's QLD and we are genetically rooted.

And !!!!!!!!

Crime, The Gallops 16th Jun 2020

Sears Stable Raids Send Shockwaves Through the Racing Industry

There are not so many smiles at the Sears place right now

This morning’s coordinated police raids on the Toowoomba home, Clifford Park stables and Charlton pre-training property of trainers Tony and Maddy Sears has sent shockwaves through the Queensland racing industry.

Not because the raids were a surprise – Blind Freddie could see that coming after the recent uproar by certain ‘lily-white’ Brisbane trainers that lead to the widely publicised meeting at Eagle Farm with the QRIC – but because they were conducted not by Stewards of the QRIC Integrity Investigation Team, but rather by up to 12 armed police rumoured to be a mixture of local and federal cops working on what appears to be a joint taskforce investigation.

At this stage we are unable to confirm or deny the involvement of the Feds, but there is strong mail coming through suggesting that any possible Commonwealth Police involvement is inextricably linked to the wholesale race fixing and doping arrests across America earlier this years that sent ripples around the world.

Some sources suggest that the FBI phone taps and raids uncovered evidence of cross-Pacific links between the dopers, including a number of Australian purchases of many of the unregistered and illegal substances being manufactured and sold by crooked pharmacists and vets in the United States, including the near 50 arrested and charged by the US Federal authorities during their investigations. This information of course was passed on to and shared with the Australian Federal Police, who are believed to have been, and still be, conducted covert investigations and surveillance operations on the local buyers, particularly in the NSW and Victorian harness racing industries.

Whether this broader investigation is related to today’s raids at Toowoomba is merely conjecture at this stage, however what we do know at this is stage is this.

• 8 armed plain clothes police executed search warrants on the home and stables of co-trainers Tony and Maddysen Sears
• A large quantity of items were seized included phones, computers, files and what are believed to be surveillance cameras and recordings
• A further 3-4 police officers executed a raid on a property linked to the Sears at Charlton, about a half hour north-west of Toowoomba
• No arrests have been made at this stage
• The raids DID NOT relate in any way to Ben or Mark Currie, and were not conducted at the Currie’s homes or stables (just to put that false rumour presently spreading to bed)

There is very strong mail that this police operation was neither the first nor last that will be conducted by police in the racing industry, with hot whispers that the next mass visits made by officers will be to a much higher profile father and child training combination based approximately 130km to the South-East of the Downs.

Watch this space.

Thank God for Archie Butterfly, he's not afraid to name names........something has to come of all this, we sent our two horses to NSW to be trained, this place stinks and I'm licensed!.....there must be other's like me, once the clean out begins, I'll support QLD again.....

Totally agree Linghi11.

The above was noted in the Chris Munce story of 17th June on the www.peterprofit.com website.

Queensland, the State that just keeps on giving......

Fml, the new government will need a big train to get rid of this wreck. Incompetent and corrupt are just two good descriptions

I noted via the above mentioned site that our friend Mick Goodie has been quietly shunted to a country track (??). God only knows who orchestrated that piece of brainstorming 

Too true Gay.  A two-time failure.  Heard he was tending a Toowoomba bowling green where bias is entirely acceptable.  

Gay3 wrote: I noted via the above mentioned site that our friend Mick Goodie has been quietly shunted to a country track (??). God only knows who orchestrated that piece of brainstorming

Whatever they have been using they have been ripped off.

Most from Far North QLD