Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mt Isa racing folk were quick to jump to the defense of jockey Jason Hoopert when we last wrote about him appearing in court, telling us that it couldn’t possibly be Hoops. It was of course. How many Jason Charles Hooper’s do you reckon there are kicking around the Isa? Drunkenly riding on e-scooters? Friendship […]
Danny Nikolic has had the larger part of an annus horribilus. He has been booted out of the racing game. His poor beloved mum has been afflicted by the terrible Huntington’s Disease. Older brother John was banged up in a Fijian hell hole for 23 years. His sister-in-law was forced to lie low to avoid […]
There are 7 races at the Warwick gallops meeting on the Darling Downs on Thursday, with a total of 92 runners competing across the card. Such great sized fields are a wonderful thing for Queensland racing. There is just one problem, and it is not the usual one about a lack of jockeys to ride the […]
Queensland apprentice Mitch Goring has some real problems when it comes to maintaining his riding career. It’s not the kid’s fault. He is just too tall and too heavy. Goring is a 2 kilo claimer with a registered riding weight now of 57kg, which is too much for an apprentice to start with. The problem […]
Terry Malloy is a character made famous by the great actor Marlon Brando in the classic movie On The Waterfront. Malloy is a prize fighter whose career in the ring was ruined after he made a series of poor decisions that culminated in him deliberately losing of fight. Wracked by guilt and regret, Malloy later […]
Black Caviar was the first – and only – horse to ever break 10 seconds for a 200m (1 furlong split). She ran 9.98 seconds, which is the equivalent of breaking 2.00 minutes for the 42km of the marathon, a feat that has just been achieved. Not even Ka Ying Rising has run faster. No […]
Bailey Wheeler has stuffed up so many times that you lose count. Pretty much every one of his debacles has resulted from one or a combination of his inability to handle alcohol, his addiction to poker machines and his late night playing, and his attitude. The kid has all the talent in the world, but […]
Poor old Queensland jockey Dan McGillivray can’t take a trick. First he has a year where he gets more suspensions and fines for careless riding than the girls from A Touch of Class get roots on a weekend. Next he gets done for a positive swab to coke and gets outed for 7 months on […]
The Grahame Begg trained Royal Insignia was backed from $6.00 into $3.40 to win yesterday’s Wagga Town Plate. If you were on it you’d want to strangle it’s jockey Luke Cartwright. His was one of the worst rides in the world. I am not going to tell you why, because I don’t want to treat […]
Apprentice jockey Jace McMurray is an absolute gun. In his first full season of riding the kid who is only 19 or 20 outrode his claim, and won each of the QLD provincial apprentice title and the Gold Coast junior and senior riders crowns. McMurray has the racing world at his feet. Bar for a […]
