Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Justice O’Brien begins to deliver the Panel’s verdict. He starts by saying it is appropriate to read Grubby’s appeal submission in full. It’s much as we’ve already reported. O’Brien then launches into the Stewards decision to charge Grubby and find him guilty. He explains that Grubby doesn’t have to prove himself innocent, the onus is […]
No-one can ever accuse the QRIC Stewards of being consistent. This was vividly illustrated on Melbourne Cup day when Five riders at five different Queensland tracks were pinched for failing to fully ride their mounts out to the finish line. Remarkably each received a different penalty for the exact same offence. How can that be? […]
Declan Bates is taking his sacking as the rider of Pride Of Jenni by owner Tony Ottobre graciously, and is acting like the perfect gentleman about it all, but in my view its bullshit and utterly unfair. It was Ottobre who told the press that Jenni would be ridden more conservatively in the Cox Plate, […]
If you’d backed the heavily supported second favorite Plymouth in the 2nd race on Cup day you’d either want to put your head in your hands and cry, or jump the mounting yard fence and throttle Blake Shinn, or maybe even do both. This horse was an absolute certainty beaten. He got stuck in three […]
The last time we heard of Darwin jockey Raymond Vigar he was being sentenced to a 12 month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to four counts of offending against a woman, including two assaults that the judge said left the thug’s victim with extreme psychological issues. The judge found that the the jockey had no insight […]
James Orman rode a treble in his Dubai debut at Jebel Ali on Saturday. He did it the hard way too, with none of them starting favorite. You would have made a nice profit if you’d followed the gun QLD hoop’s mounts. His winners prices were $11.00, $5.00 and $4.00. Orman’s taking the family for […]
We can’t find any record of Grubby Day having been suspended in the past month, so you can only assume that this is appeal into an unpublished penalty that he has been issued for disappearing from the Ewan races last month when officials with human swab kits turned up on course. It will be interesting […]
What on earth was Zac Lloyd thinking when he elected to take Steffi Magnetica off the fence to try to barge a run through the middle between Lazzet and Makarena in the Golden Eagle? It was madness. The French had aready drifted off the fence when Lloyd made his fateful decision, and it was only […]
Mark Zahra had to sweat blood to ride Estriella at 55kg in the Robert Sangster in April, and said at the time he couldn’t remember the last time he’d ridden so light. After accepting the mount on Circle of Fire in the Melbourne Cup yesterday, the top jockey now has 96 hours in which to […]
I’m not sure whether it’s just me, or whether I am being unduly influenced by the price fluctuations when forming my suspicions, so I will ask you for your opinion. Did the ride on the 2nd horse over the concluding stages look a bit odd? The winner had been backed from $5.50 into $1.85. The […]
