Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last week we wrote an article bemoaning the seeming rash of riders who want to clock 0ff work early by stopping riding their horses out fully bef0re the reach the finishing line. It must be a rampant disease running through the riding ranks or something, for yesterday in the last race at Doomben another damn […]
Bailey Wheeler has a history of doing things that get him into trouble and might cost him his career, but fortunately for him trainers keeps giving him second, third and fourth chances that others wouldn’t get. After watching his steer to win the 5th at Doomben yesterday on Sultry Siren you can see why. This […]
Craig Williams was slapped with a ten day suspension for wiping out Amelia’s Jewel in the Champions Mile and costing it any chance of finishing in second place. Willo was extremely lucky not to have copped more. There wasn’t a whole lot of difference between his ride and the one in the Golden Eagle that […]
Athletics NSW call all competitive events off once the temperature hits 40 degrees, and for good reason too because humans are most susceptible to heat exhaustion or heat stroke once the mercury rises about that level, which poses a real risk to their health and safety when performing vigorous activities, particularly outdoors in the unshaded […]
When he was 21 Irish jockey Luke P Dempsey told a racing paper that he could ride comfortably and 9 stone 12 pound, which for those unfamiliar with the metric system is 62.8kg. Men don’t grow any skinnier as they get older, so it seemed a Herculean effort for now 28-year-old to get down to […]
What’s the world coming to when jockeys have to be paid to promote racing? They used to do it for free, as part of their commitment to the game. Not Willie Pike though. They say he wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning unless there was an earn in it. There certainly was one […]
The Grubby Day appeal kicks off. Kerry O’Brien as usual chairs the panel. Diane Condon and Lindsay Hicks are the other two members of the panel. Darryl Griffiths is the Steward’s representative. He has some yank woman named Ballard assisting him. I assume she’s a lawyer. Grubby appears unrepresented. O’Brien tells Grubby to ask questions […]
Ballard the lawyer with the yank accent kicks off the QRIC’s case. She said that Grubby’s fine was well inside the range, and quotes a number of cases to support her argument. Then she starts raving. Judge O’Brien jumps in. doesn’t seem to know who Grubby is. He keeps calling him jockey Butler. O’Brien tells […]
Darryl Griffiths kicks off. He says that Grubby was definitely sighted at the track at around 1pm and then took off. In many years of Stewarding he had never had a rider leave without telling the Stewards. Griffiths then raises the elephant in the room. He tells the panel that the booze bus arrived and […]
Grubby Day tells the panel that he usually sweats in the spa at home, but Ewan being in the middle of nowhere (as he describes it) there were no facilities of that kind. So he had to go old school by wrapping himself in plastic and hitting the street to go for a run in […]
