Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The jockey shortage in QLD that we have been banging on about for ages is really starting to bite. There were late scratchings everywhere last weekend due to a lack of riders. Racing QLD have never done a great deal to address the problem, and it has continued to do nothing by way of fuel […]
Captain Maverick, last in the lime green with black and white sleeves and black and white checked cap, was an outsider at $71.oo in race 5 at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Notwithstanding the price, it was a very odd ride by Kyle Wilson-Taylor, and had he taken the right option instead of the wrong, the […]
Luke Tarrant was back in court on Thursday, for another mention of three charges of armed robbery. We are told that Tarrant is alleged to have robbed or attempted to rob his local store, and then gone back and done it again. These are simply allegations. But gee they make you wonder don’t they? Ice. […]
Young QLD jockey Krysten Swaffer ticked up her 100th career win at Innisfail on the weekend. It is a great achievement. Good on her. May there be many, many more.
Craig Williams ride on Sir Delius in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on Saturday was sheer genius. The work 0f a master, who had d0ne his form and planned what he was going to do a long time before he did it. Williams knew that he was on a top class middle distance stayer, […]
The rail is off at Randwick, especially as the track deteriorates. Any fool can see that. Craig Williams didn’t. This clown steered the favorite in the last Inkaruna to the inside. He might as well have slit its throat. Granted Inkaruna didn’t finish the race off well, and might have had an issue. But it […]
It’s great to see Bailey Wheeler coming back with four rides at the Gold C0ast this weekend. It’s not quite where Wheeler should be, but better than where he was. Good luck to the kid. Let’s hope that he doesn’t mess it up again this time. It’s his chances are fast running out. And when […]
Have you ever seen a worse hook job than this one in America the other day. It was so bloody obvious. The jockey should get life.
This morning we published a letter from a reader regarding apprentice jockeys in QLD, which specifically mentioned Jaden Lloyd. The letter was genuine ,as are all the letters that we publish – anything I write myself I do so under my own name – but as is our consistent practice we do not publish our […]
The jungle drums are beating that Mick Dittman has been, or is about to be, appointed as a member of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP), to replace Skye Bogenhuber, who is reportedly making a comeback to race riding. If the rumor is true – which we believe it to be – it creates quite […]
