Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I can assure you from my own knowledge and experience of Jim Murdoch KC that he is a thoroughly good and decent human being, but gee if he was of a different bent he would have made an outstanding interrogator for the Stasi. Slowly and methodically he is twisting Callow in knots and tearing him […]
The Panel plays the offending video recordings. There is much argument about whether the transcript of the recordings is correct, with Stirling disputing that his client ever called anyone the highly offensive term “nigger’ and the recording clearly appearing to back him up. Stirling submits that Callow’s conduct was spur of the moment stupidity, not […]
Painting hung on peterprofit.com office wall Murdoch KC makes a concession, one clearly designed to overcome submissions made by Matthew Stirling that it would take Noel Callow another 2 months after his disqualification ended to get fully race fit so that he could again start earning what he did before the spell. The Magic Man […]
Here are some quotes from the Stewards when sentencing jockey Taylor Marshall to a 9-month disqualification for doctoring his annual Health Assessment Report. They are worth reading to understand why it is so important that a proper assessment of a riders fitness to compete is undertaken each year, and why jockeys who have submitted altered […]
What you see at the top and above are notices that the Queensland branch of the Australian Jockeys Association sent out to its members late last week. Panic stations have set in among the ranks of local riders. The QRIC are auditing all Health Assessment Reports that have been submitted by jockeys. As we told […]
It appears that we may not have heard the last of the doctored Health Assessment Report scandal yet. The mail is that up to a dozen jockeys are going to be charged for submitting bodged up reports, including at least one big name rider. A person in addition to Jeff McKay is said to have […]
Noel ‘King’ Callow’s appeal against his ten month disqualification for conduct related offences related to the “Darwin Tapes” recordings that went viral on social media will be heard next Friday at9.30am. We spoke to the King in the aftermath of the recordings coming to public attention and can confirm that Callow accepted full responsibility for […]
Tom Sherry rode carelessly in race 6 at Rosehill on Saturday. He pushed his mount Grand Prairie through a gap that wasn’t there, and in the process forced the horse on the right side of the gap he had created Providence in across the running of Tyreek, which collided with the running rail and dislodged […]
2001: Robert Warren became addicted to meth while working as a jockey, his defence barrister said. Picture: Fiona Harding Story by Daneka Hill, Townsville Bulletin An old man’s dream to build a Breaking Bad-style meth empire in Townsville was brought crashing down by an incorrect Qantas boarding pass and a police search. Robert John Warren, […]
In sentencing Noel Callow to two x 5 month disqualifications for his behavior in Darwin in 2024, the Stewards placed great emphasis on the jockey’s record of conduct related offending over the past three decades, and in particular relied on Callow’s rap sheet which reads: 30 July 2025 (Darwin): Fined under AR 228(a) for prejudicial […]
