Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tyler Schiller is best known as a highly successful Group 1 winning jockey who has ridden in a Melbourne Cup. At heart though he is a trot man, just his grandad Phil Schiller was back in the day. Two years backs Tyler paid $18 000 at the APG Sydney sale for a colt by Downbytheseaside. […]
Ben Melham sat up on Skybird in the Group 2 Gilgai Stakes at Flemington and very nearly got it beaten. Melham was fined $2000 for his actions, or inactions, as the case may be. Austin Galati sat up on the second horse in the same race. He was fined $1000. Both are senior riders, and […]
Ben Melham almost gave punters who backed Skybird in the Gilgai yesterday a heart attack when, thinking he had the race easily in his grasp, he stopped riding and sat up with about 30m to go, allowing the favorite to cruise to the line under its own speed. The problem for Melham was that the […]
As we reported last week, Cairns trainer Bodine Bailey jumped on Facebook and encouraged one of his friends to bash a jockey about the same height as the one with him in the picture, or perhaps even a little smaller. What sort of bloke does that, especially one his size? Behaviour like that’s pretty piss […]
Picture: Jess Webber/Bradley Photos: Racenet https://www.racenet.com.au/news/pony-club-to-group-1-jockeys-siena-grima-mollie-fitzgerald-get-chance-to-cap-meteoric-rise-in-2026-epsom-handicap-at-randwick-on-saturday-october-3-2026-20261002 If you didn’t know any better you would swear that jockeys Siena Grima (top) and Mollie Fitzgerald (below) were sisters. They are not of course. But the likeness is uncanny. The pair could almost be twins. They say that everyone has a doppelganger somewhere in the world. They are […]
Jockey Daniel Moor was hauled into the Stewards room after race 2 at Eagle Farm and had his ride on the 2nd favorite Iconify questioned. I am buggered if I know why. Iconify is the horse in the pink and blue, one out and one back. Tell me if you can what was wrong with […]
Story by John Lingard, https://letsgohorseracing.com.au/punters-questioning-reason-for-form-slump-of-their-champ-jamie-melham/ A legion of fans of champion lady jockey JAMIE MELHAM are asking ‘have the wheels fallen off’ her riding career this season? Their reason: Only two wins from her last 50 rides and 23 losers since she saluted on Satono Glow in the Group 3 Cap D’Antibes at Flemington on […]
A FAR North Queensland jockey says he feared for his safety after receiving alleged threats through Facebook, prompting intervention from racing stewards and the removal of a public post. Story by Hugh Bohane, Cairns Local News, 25/9/2026 Jockey Tyler Leslight has spoken to Cairns Local News after receiving a series of private messages and becoming […]
I have lost count of how many times we have written on this website about jockey Daniel McGillivray breaching the rules of racing. Whether it be drugs, careless riding, the whip or whatever rule it may be, you name it, D. McGillivray is there. He is off and away again. Last Sunday week at Dalby […]
It’s impossible to tell here what went on in the final stages of race 4 at Doomben on Wednesday. Obviously the horse in the orange burst through the middle and nutted the leader on the line. But the rider of the second horse Daniel Moor lodges a protest, claiming that apprentice Montana Philpott on the […]
