Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
“I’ll look after you”. That’s what jockey Rory Hutchings said to the Clerk of the Scales at Randwick yesterday, after the race day official pulled him up for attempting to weigh out without his safety vest so he could make the weight. “I’ll look after you”. There are only two ways that you could take […]
Visiting UK jockey Will Featherstone was pretty excited about riding his first New Zealand winner. So excited that he showboated for the camera, not realising of course that it was on the other side. The Stewards and the RIB adjudicator didn’t share the Englishman’s joy. They hit him with a $300 fine. Poor bastard’s winning […]
In a clear message to licensees that you have to pee when the Stewards direct you to, Queensland jockey Shannon Apthorpe has been disqualified for 12 months after refusing to provide a urine sample when required at trackwork at Clifford Park in March. Apthorpe, who hasn’t ridden in a race since December last year, will […]
What the hell was Mark Zahra thinking on Giga Kick in the Goodwood? He took it straight out to the rear after the start from the wide barrier 12, and probably didn’t have much choice. But Zahra certainly did have a choice about when he made his run on Giga Kick and he left it […]
Archie Re your story about Ash Butler’s ride on Fine Shot at Rocky on Sunday. A Rather Funny Ride That race was run over 1600m. You can give Fine Shot all the clear air in the world, but he ain’t running a mile down a well. Seven furlongs pulls him up. And that’s with everything […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There was a fall in race 6 at Townsville yesterday in which Lacey Morrison fell and injured her ankle., ruling her out for the rest of the card. Lacey was otherwise okay. The Stewards inquired into the fall and found that no rider/s were to blame for L. Morrison going down. We’d love to agree […]
