A Rather Funny Ride

It was a funny sort of ride by Ash Butler on the favorite Fine Shot in the 4th at Rockhampton yesterday, rather funny indeed. Funny hoo hoo, not funny ha ha. Butler appeared desperate not to get his mount to the outside and into clear air. All down the straight he kept ducking in behind […]

What am I Missing?

Jockey Chris McIver was charged with failing to ride his mount Lustrous out to the finish of race 1 at Rockhampton yesterday. He pleaded guilty to the charge, although I’m not sure quite why. Lustrous is the horse on the outside in the black and white diamonds with black sleeves and cap. I can’t see […]

Proof That Evolution is Real

Anyone who ever doubted the truth of the theory of evolution need only have attended the Wagga Cup meeting on Friday to have been convinced. Danny Brereton was a Group 1 winning jockey before the terrible fall at Mooney Valley that ended his career, and was a damn good rider at that, but no-one ever […]

QRIC Inconsistency in the Application of Jockey’s Time Served on Suspension Has Made the Playing Field Unfair

A few weeks ago we wrote a story questioning the QLD Stewards approach to allowing riders who incur multiple careless riding penalties to serve their penalties at the same time (concurrently) rather than serving their suspensions one after the other (cumulatively). In the story – which was about Kyle Wilson-Taylor being allowed to serve two […]

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