Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
For many years in racing the female riders were forced to change in the toilets, because tracks didn’t provide any facilities for the minority to do so in comfort and privacy. The wheel’s turned full circle in Queensland now since Pam O’Neill first broke through the glass ceiling and set the ball rolling. 25 of […]
We are advised that Bailey Wheeler suffered a dislocated shoulder when a Currie trained runner flipped over behind the barriers at Toowoomba and landed on him. That injury has kept him out for the past month. Wheeler is still apprenticed to Robert Heathcote last anyone heard, and he is back riding this week. Question answered. […]
What’s happened to the highly controversial and troubled but uber talented apprentice jockey Bailey Wheeler? He hasn’t had a ride for a month, not since the Weetwood meeting on the 28th of September. Last we heard publicly his apprenticeship had been transferred to Robert Heathcote as master, but Wheeler has disappeared from the trainer’s website […]
Queensland’s most suspended apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray got done again for careless riding yesterday at Doomben. He’d only been back from his most recent holiday for the same offence for 4 days. This bloke refuses to learn. I don’t know whether he is incapable of understanding the prime importance of riding safely to keep other […]
QLD apprentice Jade Metcalfe turned up a wee bit early in the 3rd at Kilcoy yesteday. A whole lap too early to be precise. The kid missed the fact that the race was a 1900m affair, not an 800m scamper, so when she saw the winning post she went for home, only to find out […]
In one of the more bizarre matters to come before the Stewards this year, 20-year-old NSW apprentice jockey Holly Durnan has been suspended for 3 months after being found guilty of workplace harassment involving taking an offensive photograph of a fellow female rider in the jockeys room and sending the image to another racing participant. […]
