Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Apprentice Gabrielle Semmens elected to take a full book of rides at Sprinsgure yesterday in preference to a couple of mounts in Townsville. It was a bit of a drive out to the mining town, but it proved worth the ride. Semmens landed a treble and a second from five races, including a win in […]
Dan McGillivray is Australia’s most suspended apprentice jockey by a country mile. When it comes to time on the sidelines not even Zac Lloyd can match him. It’s D. McGillivray first, daylight second in the race that no rider wants to win. The errant apprentice increased his lead in the Unwanted Stakes yesterday at Ipswich […]
Apprentice Brooke Johnson had a very bad day at Callaghan Park on Tuesday. A Barry Crocker I think you could call it. First she gets suspended for 15 days for going for an inside run and checking herself. Sound weird? The Stewards didn’t think so. They considered Brooke’s interference on herself high degree careless riding. […]
Apprentice Cody Collis blamed the soft track for the second favorite Borisova getting beaten in the first at Ipswich yesterday. He might as well have blamed the aliens too. The track didn’t beat Borisova. Collis planting the filly four-wide from barrier 5 and then running her even wider around the home turn did. It may […]
Why on earth would the Stewards question apprentice Perrie Carter’s ride on Braidwood Queen in this race at Bundaberg yesterday? The kid was on the despised outsider in the race, and thanks to her bold front running tactics she almost pinched it. The much better fancied pair who filled the quinella – one of them […]
Faith Elliott (pictured at top) is an apprentice jockey coach at Racing Queensland. She is also a trackwork rider licensed by the QLD Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC). Which is all kind of funny in a strange way. Funny hoo hoo, not funny ha ha. You see one aspect of Faith Elliott’s job is to set […]
I’m not sure whether apprentice rider Amy O’Driscoll was trying to channel Cyril Small (Vo Rogue) or Jim Cassidy (Might and Power) in this recent race at Wagga, but it didn’t work. It usually doesn’t unless you are on a champion, and no-one ever accused O’Driscoll’s mount Ledecky’s Dream of being that. Ledecky’s Dream finished […]
Former Group 1 winning jockey Shane Scriven – Scrivo to his friends, of which there are many – attended the Magic Millions meeting today in his official capacity of coach and mentor to Queensland’s apprentice jockeys. Or that was the official line anyway. The reality is that there was only one Queensland licensed apprentice at […]
The Stewards officiating at Saturday’s Toowoomba meeting channeled Santa by the way they practiced the true Xmas spirit of giving,. Giving reprieves not fines or suspensions I mean. Apprentice Dylan Bennett allowed his mount Beirut Miss to shift in when not fully clear of Good Times Again near the 1100m, taking that runner in, obliging […]
What on earth was Zac Lloyd thinking when he elected to take Steffi Magnetica off the fence to try to barge a run through the middle between Lazzet and Makarena in the Golden Eagle? It was madness. The French had aready drifted off the fence when Lloyd made his fateful decision, and it was only […]
