Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We are in the home straight now with only a month of the season to go, and there are some battle royales going on around the State for Queensland’s prestigious premiership titles. Angela Jones and Emily Lang’s head to head tussle to become the first woman to wear the Brisbane champion jockey’s crown is set […]
Just For Show was backed for plenty to win race 5 at Caulfield. $5.40 into $3.40 it firmed on Betfair. Thanks to a very poor decision by apprentice Luke Cartwright the punters tickets were confetti before they’d gone 100m. Two of Just For Show’s three wins have come when it has been ridden up on […]
Well you could see that one coming a mile away. As predicted trainer Liandra Gray has been stood down following her criminal conviction for animal cruelty. It’s the right thing too. Shows we as an industry and a sport won’t put up with animals being mistreated. Or assaulted with a whip 40 times. Gray is […]
Globetrotting Queensland senior apprentice school coach Shane Scriven continues to follow the National Apprentice Series caravan around the country to support Queensland’s entrant/s in the series at Racing Queensland expence. A week or two ago Scriven was in the Northern Territory mentoring Queensland’s sole contestant in that leg of the series, yesterday the coach was […]
Apprentice Lesson 1 by Scrivo – How to Kiss a Cup Like a Striped Cod Shane Scriven landed plenty of winners in his riding days, and post-retirement from the saddle he has translated his skills to scoring free holidays away under the guise of work. The last time we Scrivo spotted was back in January […]
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 […]
