Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Prior to the declaration of correct weight a protest was lodged by J Huxtable, the rider of second placegetter JUST GETS BETTER, alleging interference from the 600m onwards against the winner MAJORELLE. After taking evidence from all parties, it was established that after passing the 600m MAJORELLE shifted out and made contact with JUST GETS […]
I am not sure that I have ever in my whole life seen a bigger slaughter job in a Group 1 race than Opie Bosson’s disgraceful steer on the Kiwi mare Entriviere in yesterday’s Doomben 10 000. This guy rides the big Aussie races about as well as Ben Hunt catches kick offs in NRL […]
Opie Bosson’s steer in the 10 000 was terrible. Willie Pike’s ride on Written Beauty in the Bright Shadow was the polar opposite. It was pure genius. Just imagine that Willie had been on Entriviere in the big one. How far would it have won by?
It’s been a wait of a couple of months due to COVID restrictions, but yesterday Australia’s much-loved pioneering female jockey Pam O’Neill rode in to Government House accompanied by her kids Gav and Cherie and granddaughter Cherie to be bestowed with her Order of Australia medal by Queensland’s Governor Mrs J. Young. We’re all as […]
The Brisbane jockey’s premiership looks a whole lot different now than it did a couple of months ago when we last wrote about it. James Orman’s golden run of success has seen him leapfrog Jim Byrne and Ryan Maloney, and now he sits 4 wins ahead on 58 1/2, with Byrne second 4 wins astern […]
Lacey Morrison got ripped off blind by the Stewards at Gordonvale on Saturday. In race 4 she was denied a protest win by the stipes failing to see Frankie Edwards whip his horse 14 times before the 100m mark, and 25 times in total (see story below). Then in very next race she had her […]
I want to tell you a little story that demonstrates the sheer incompetence of the QRIC thoroughbred steward, and illustrates it for all too see. We are at the Gordonvale races just south of Cairns on Saturday, and it’s race 4. The horse in the blue with the red cap is Magnate, ridden by Frankie […]
I am starting to think that Jamie Kah might be better off steering clear of her home town of Adelaide and staying in Melbourne, aren’t you? After all, she has ridden 5 winners from her last 15 mounts in Crown Casino town, at a strike rate of 33.3 percent, which is low flying. On the […]
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I feel compelled to ask the question again: have you ever seen a jockey in better form in your life than James Orman? Yesterday at the Gold Coast Orman the young 25-year-old hoop rode his third metro double in a row, and by winning the G3 […]
How many Saturdays in a century would a hoop go to a secondary provincial meeting and find themselves riding up against a Hong Kong Jockeys Premiership winner, a Brisbane Apprentice Jockeys Premiership winner, a dual Group 1 winner, a multiple Group 1 winner in South Africa, and Vo Rogue’s rider? Perhaps the young jocks who […]
