Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Watch the ride of jockey Michael ‘Big Mac’ McDonald on board Acclimatise in the first race at Cluden Park today. Acclimatise is the horse on the inside in the lime green and black or brown stripes. See Big Mac drop his hands and sit up with about 20m to go in the race? Did it […]
This is taken verbatim from the Stewards inquiry into Jason Maskiell’s hook job at Seymour. It was all his son’s broken collarbone’s fault. Jockey Maskiell’s mindset was all wrong. CHAIRMAN: Okay. Is there anything you want to put forward now to the Stewards? MASKIELL: Yeah. Yeah, just in hindsight, my mindset was probably a bit […]
Jason Maskiell in race 4 at Seymour on the 15th of November. He is in the green, yellow sleeves and red cap, riding the horse with the white blaze. Maskiell one race later, in the yellow with blue and red cap, near the fence. There is a bit of a difference in the rides isn’t […]
Is Sariah Champkin blind or deaf or something? How could she not not be aware that she had lost touch with the body of the field, when she was 4-5 lengths behind the second last horse for at least 600 metres? Is Champkin pulling our chains? Or is she really that limited as a professional […]
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 […]
Have you noticed the number of heavyweight jockeys who are riding a whole lot lighter lately? Some who had to give up the game after losing the battle with weight are even coming out of retirement to return to race riding. We won’t list them by name because we empathize with their struggles, but we […]
Jason Maskiell was charged by Stewards before Xmas with the serious offence 0f failing to ride his mount My Schieller Wood on its merits in the Maiden Plate at Seymp0ur on the 15th of November. My Schieller Wood is the horse third on the fence in the green silks, yellow sleeve and red cap. It did […]
This is an article published on Practical Punting when Jason Maskiell was an apprentice. Some things never change hey? And we’re not talking about Robert Smerdon loading up owner Mike Symons horses. Racing Victoria stewards have accepted an explanation from leading apprentice Jason Maskiell over his ride on Zacroona after the Lee Freedman stable took […]
You know you’ve got some problems when you have to be replaced by oft times hurdle rider Paul Hamblin on a mount because you can’t make the weight. That’s what happened to jockey Nathan Fazackerly at Dalby yesterday after he couldn’t get down to ride Cardi Pearl at the allotted handicap of 56.5kg, or even […]
Dear Archie, I feel somewhat obligated to respond to your article with reference to the ride on RUN AWAY RENEE (RAR) in Rockhampton race 2 yesterday. Racing is a game of opinions and that’s what makes it the greatest sport on earth and the following commentary is simply food for thought. RAR is a lightly […]
