Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
NSW and QLD both have a shortage of jockeys, which is a huge concern in particular for the Sunshine State where a ridiculous and utterly unsustainable number of races are run each weekend, and horses are regularly scratched every Saturday for want of a rider. So what’s the plan to fix it? In a state […]
First year QLD apprentice Erin Molloy had a day out at Richmond yesterday, the biggest of her short career to but burgeoning career to date. Molloy, who only started race riding in February, kicked home 4 of the 5 winners on the card, all of them trained by John Manzelmann, who had a grand day […]
The biggest problems for Zac Lloyd started way back when he was first licensed. To see this 4ft nothing little person drive into Gold Coast trackwork in a $100,000 BMW, barely his eye level breaching the dash, told all & sundry this was a spoilt rotten kid. Young Zac started out very polite but as […]
A few months back we told you about this young apprentice jockey named Brooke Johnson who rode 4 winners on the card at a meeting at Bowen, from just 4 rides, and we predicted that she might become a real superstar sometime soon. Nothing we have seen since has changed our mind. This kid is […]
In 50 years in racing I am not sure that I have ever seen a jockey hauled into the Stewards room for putting a favourite in the box seat in the run. In fact I don’t believe that I ever have. Not until yesterday at Eagle Farm anyway. Apprentice Jake Molloy was on the fave […]
Dylan Gibbons rode a double at Warwick Farm yesterday, but Zac Lloyd pulled one back to keep the Sydney apprentice title race well and truly alive. Gibbons now sits on 72 wins, 2 ahead of Lloyd with three meetings to go. These kids are so amazingly talented that either of them could home a double […]
This was an issue I was discussing with a high-placed racing identity just the other day, and I agree with Noel Callow in the main. During my discussion with the identity I gave the example of a great young kid from up this way who left home in his mid-teens to move to the big […]
Oh for the love of Pizza! Wiremu Pinn won 180 races in New Zealand including a Group 1. That Group 1 win was in the Otaki WFA Classic aboard Merv Butterworth’s grand but injury plagued galloper Marscapone, who at his two starts prior to the G1 win had run placing behind Levante, Entriviere and Roch […]
Zac Ll0yd is a phenomenon. The wonder kid has ridden at 20 meetings since the 1st of March. Across that 20 race meets he has ridden 25 winners, and chalked up 6 doubles, 2 trebles, and 1 x four winners in a day. Lloyd is riding winners in the city at a strike rate of […]
Can anyone at Racing QLD explain to us the justification for sending Shane Scriven from their jockey school on an all expenses paid jaunt down to South Australia to see Emily Lang win both heats of the National Apprentices Series yesterday? I mean, I am sure that Emily appreciated having some old fart teacher from […]
