Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See jockey Bailey Wheeler on the horse in the red and white stick his right arm out and push fellow rider Tahlia Fenton back in, just as she was about to come around the grey and take her rightful run to its outside? That wasn’t careless by Wheeler. It was deliberate. Foul riding it was […]
QLD provincial rider Peta Edwards got a bit carried away with the ship in race 6 at the Cairns Amateur meeting on the weekend. She hit her horse 8 times prior to the 100m mark – 5 strikes is the maximum allowed – and 24 times in total, nine strikes above the limit of fifteen. […]
Transplanted Irish jockey did nothing for the cause of ending jokes about his countrymen by his ride on Romans Luck in the 7th race at Morphettville today. It was a joke. For some reason Murtagh got it into his head that because all the winners on the day had been moving to the outside in […]
There is a huge crowd at Cannon Park up here in Cairns today for the Amateurs today, and its great to see given the travails that the meeting has encountered in recent years. Sadly as so often happens on rain affected surfaces at the track, we have once again this year seen in the first […]
We have been critical of a number of provincial jockey Micheal McDonald’s rides in the past. https://peterprofit.com/?s=micheal+mcdonald After reading this story published in the Townsville Bulletin yesterday I very much doubt we will get the chance to pick apart on of McDonald’s rides ever again. And after learning of his previous criminal record you are […]
William Pike has withdrawn as the feature guest jockey for the Cairns Cup weekend, and a tip goes with it. Pike has advised the club that the reason for his pulling out is that he has secured the mount on a horse that he views as a major Spring Carnival, and that is racing on […]
Jumps jockey Steven Pateman was handed a 16 heavyweight and jumps race suspension for careless riding leading to a fall in which the jockey in the white silks Aaron Lynch fell and broke his scapula in the race above at Warrnambool. You can’t see the fall because the Stewards edited the film to avoid showing […]
JD Hayes and Dakotah Keane, pictured above at last night’s Victorian Racing Awards I am a bit confused. I’m quite sure that I saw jockey Dakotah Keane out one night arm in arm with one of the Hayes boys when I was down on one my regular racing trips to Melbourne, not sure which, or […]
The 7-day flight path of jockey Daniel Moor JB Cummings famously used to have a rule that his stayers had to cover 10 000 meters in their lead up runs to get them fit and ready to win a Melbourne Cup. It worked. Bart won 13 of them. Based on the famous Cummings training method […]
Not a ‘desirable’ person: This ex-jockey is now banned from setting foot on a racecourse Story by Danny Russell: The Age https://www.theage.com.au/sport/racing/not-a-desirable-person-this-ex-jockey-is-now-banned-from-setting-foot-on-a-racecourse-20260804-p60l6j.html More than 30 years have passed since flamboyant jockey Gavin Eades surfed one of racing’s great highs, punching the air in sheer joy after he was declared the winner of the 1994 Doncaster […]
