Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is no more exciting spectacle in racing that watching two champion jockeys at the peak of their powers going hammer and tong, head to head down the straight in a battle of wits and skill. Yesterday at Rosehill we had the pleasure of seeing it in the shape of Joao Moreira v James McDonald. […]
Further to our story yesterday about one M. Currie trained galloper setting a brutal speed in front that was perfect for it stablemate who came from behind and won, here is the official Stewards report as it relates to the matter. Depth Charge Began awkwardly. Stewards inquired into the tactics adopted on the gelding, specifically […]
As if Sariah Champkin didn’t have enough problems already, here’s another one. Champkin is a bankrupt. The QRIC have issues with licensing bankrupt jockeys, because of the perception that they may be vulnerable to copping slings to ride their mounts uncompetitively, or in other words to hook them. It is for that reason that riders […]
Dan McGillivray has one of the worst careless riding records of any current jockey in Queensland. It’s so bad that I’ve given up counting the number of suspensions that McGillivray has received, or the amount of time that he has spent on the sidelines through suspension. This is the bloke we wrote about 2 months […]
You shouldn’t laugh about dangerous racing incidents, but what were the odds of Jamie Kah being involved in a near-accident while attempting to take a needle eye split on the rails in the same week that she was outed for 3 weeks for not taking one up the middle? If yesterday’s interference that lead to […]
Stewards have issued an all points missing person bulletin for jockey Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day following his mysterious disappearance from the Ewan racecourse in North QLD yesterday without fulfilling an engagement. Day arrived on course at the track in the largely abandoned former tin mining town on the banks of the Stockyard Creek prior to weigh-in […]
Keep your eyes on apprentice Braith Nock in the lime and red silks and red cap, second from the outside, in this race at Hawkesbury last Saturday week. Watch what he does to the rider and horse on his outside, first with his knee and then with his elbow. Nock pleaded guilty to a charge […]
Archie Thanks for noting the Daniel Ganderton penalty, I missed that one hidden at the bottom of a steward report rather than being a separate enquiry as it should have been. Chief Steward Bruce Free ‘Ride’ had 3 misconduct matters to deal with, and he sounded like the old broken record on each one with […]
If this protest decision in the 5th at Mackay on Tuesday wasn’t a raw prawn left out in the sun for six days, then I don’t one that was. The horse in the yellow and olive diagonal stripes beats the one in the cream and brown on its outside by a nose. A protest if […]
We wrote just the other day about how easing up on a leader and getting beaten is a jockey’s worst nightmare. Michael Cahill is a bit old for having nightmares you would have thought, but you’d be wrong. The Group 1 winning rider with 4 decades of riding experience had one yesterday at Doomben, and […]
