Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Queensland jockey Trudy Thornton narrowly missed being suspended for a month in the third race at the Sunshine Coast. Thornton stopped riding the runner-up out at the 50m mark and if she hadn’t had the good fortune of the horse hanging on to run second by a lip it would have been an unplanned holiday […]
While the eyes of the world were watching the big name riders go around at Randwick and Caulfield yesterday, lesser light jockeys around the nation were having big days out too. Justin Stanley takes the prize for most winners anywhere after he landed a fabulous five on the card at Rockhampton, and all of them […]
Andrew Rule is one person who certainly won’t be on Ben Melham and Jamie Kah’s Christmas card this year, after the pair blew up big time after reading a story about Kah penned by the award winning crime and racing writer that was published yesterday in the Sun Herald (see story below). Melham was the […]
When Jamie Kah hit Victoria, she seemed to be pure heroine. It was early 2019 and the best scorer out of Adelaide since the Chappell brothers packed her Range Rover and headed east. She stopped at Strathalbyn races and nailed two winners and a second from six rides, topping up her strike rate of one […]
We appreciate that we’re starting to sound like a broken record, but it’s not our fault it’s his. By he we mean Australia’s most suspended apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray, who was sent on yet another holiday by the Stewards at the Gold Coast yesterday. This time the persistent rules breaker wasn’t outed for careless riding […]
Supplementary Report: Kembla Grange – 10 August 2024 Race 3: Abax Contracting Super Maiden Handicap 1000m: Stewards concluded an inquiry into D. Yeo’s handling of Honey Perfume in the abovementioned race. Evidence was taken from D. Yeo and the filly’s trainer, Mr M. Smith. Stewards also considered a report into the wagering on the event […]
Queensland’s most suspended apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray got done again for careless riding yesterday at Doomben. He’d only been back from his most recent holiday for the same offence for 4 days. This bloke refuses to learn. I don’t know whether he is incapable of understanding the prime importance of riding safely to keep other […]
Watch the horse on the inside in the red behind the leader. See what jockey John Rudd does? He sits up early. It costs his mount 4th place. Rudd copped a 14-day suspension. He was a bit stiff I reckon. Watch it again in slow motion. What the hell was that white post doing positioned […]
There was a protest 2nd v 1st in race 5 at Doomben yesterday. The 2nd horse was on the outside in the blue, red cap and white sleeves. It’s rider Dale Smith protested against the winner ridden by Kyle Wilson-Taylor, who is in the middle in the white with red hooped sleeves and white cap, […]
In one of the more bizarre matters to come before the Stewards this year, 20-year-old NSW apprentice jockey Holly Durnan has been suspended for 3 months after being found guilty of workplace harassment involving taking an offensive photograph of a fellow female rider in the jockeys room and sending the image to another racing participant. […]
