You Can’t See the Forrest For the Lees
He likes his square gaiters trainer Grant Forrest doesn’t he? It would have been a clean sweep, if only you had been able to see the Forrest for the Lees.
Why Incentivise Can’t Win the Cup, and Couldn’t if it Was Run Down a Well
Incentivise cannot win the Melbourne Cup. Not because he has 57kg, although that in itself is a huge stop. Not because he is attempting to become the first horse since the turn of the century to win the Caulfield-Melbourne Cups double either. He can’t win the Cup because he won’t get two miles. It’s his […]
The Kid Gets a Stay – What Happens Next is Up to the Internal Reviewer
Pending resolution of her internal review apprentice Alisha Ross has been granted a stay of the 8 month disqualification that she received for presenting an altered medical certificate to the North Queensland stewards prior to a recent race meeting, which is good news for the young rider. Of course some form of suspension is inevitable, […]
How Strange it Is – Here’s a Tip
How odd it was of driver Cameron Hart to look hard to his right on the galloping Jason Grimson trained Terryama at Menangle Saturday week ago when he had already moved it several horses wide and would have by now knocked anything come around him six ways to Sunday. How strange it was that the […]
Despicable Conduct by a Despicable Little Man – Ban the Bastard For Life
The QRIC has just posted full details of the reason that jockey Paul Randall had been disqualified for 18 months, and I have to say that what this senior rider did was despicable, and that he should he should have been warned off for life. The incident that lead to Randall’s disqualification occurred at the […]
The Madness of the Zero Cocaine Threshold in Swabs Rule
A lot has written and said about racehorses, pacers and greyhound returning positive swabs to the insidious human drugs cocaine and methamphetamine (Ice), two illegal substances that’s use and abuse has become so widespread at all levels of our society that we are now seeing suburban housewives, footballers, high-profile lawyers, millionaire eastern suburbs housewives, politicians […]
Jaden Lloyd is Not the Next Darren Beadman – He Already Is
Jim Byrne has a 6.5 win lead over Jaden Lloyd on the Queensland metro riders premiership ladder 10 weeks into the season, with Ryan Maloney one behind Lloyd and Jimmy Orman one behind him, but if I were any of those senior jockeys I would be afraid right now, very afraid. This teenage colt by […]
Self-Assured is My Kind of Guy
This beautiful picture is of the champion pacer and second favourite for the New Zealand Trotting Cup Self-Assured, taken while he was spelling out in the paddock in May. Isn’t he just lovely? As a mate of mine said when they sent me the picture, any horse that is killer on the track and so […]
They are Just the Cards You Are Dealt – It’s How You Deal With Them That Matters
I was really enjoying my riding just before this happened and it was disappointing but I guess it is just how the game goes. They are just the cards you are dealt; you do not have any control of it and you just have to deal with it – Tegan Harrison Jockey Tegan Harrison has […]
Excellent New CEO Appointment Gives SA Harness Racing a Real Ray of Hope
We have written extensively about the myriad of unaddressed issues in South Australia harness racing over the past decade that have led to its slow decline and the industry in the State’s death by a thousand cuts, and latterly have been commenting that the sport in SA is on it’s last legs and spinning slowly […]