Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You can’t say Damien Lane didn’t deserve the 17 meeting suspension he copped for taking out Unit Five, Eurocanto and Alibaba in the Blue Diamond. What you do have to ask is that if Lane was prepared to risk a suspension to get out, then why the hell did he wait so long? By the […]
Zac Spain had a bit of luck this afternoon, and came out smelling like roses. It could have all ended up in the sewer. Spain rode the raging hot favorite Sheza Alibi. He didn’t look like he knew what to do coming around the turn when he stayed in and got cluttered up on the […]
https://www.racenet.com.au/news/group-1-jockey-kyle-wilsontaylor-banned-19-days-after-causing-interference-to-multiple-runners-20260217 Kyle Wilson-Taylor was only charged with careless riding for knocking over half the field at Doomben last Saturday week. Chief Steward Josh Adams said the stewards’ panel could not be comfortably satisfied that Wilson-Taylor had knowledge that his mount’s head was turned out, and that his panel (meaning him as their leader) could not […]
Yesterday we wrote a story wondering if jockey Ryan Wiggins missed the Cairns race meeting because he slept in. It was out of line, and incorrect, and we apologize to the man. Jockey Wiggins has been in touch to set us straight. His plane was having maintenance problems, and then the second plane that the […]
I am not quite sure what jockey Wiggins transport difficulties were that caused him to miss riding at the Cairns meeting yesterday. He can’t have broken down on the way, No jockey would be stupid enough to drive all the way from Brisbane to Cairns. Plus if your car broke down on the way to […]
This is Luke Tarrant’s address if you’re looking to drop him a line. It’s not a place that I’d like to be. Silly, silly man. He’s thrown away the chance to earn millions of dollars. Traded it for a glass piple. Ain’t meth grand?
Luke Nolen has nothing to complain about the 24 meeting suspension that he received for this piece of particular piece of madness at Pakenham on Thursday. He got off light. Imagine if his bad-tempered stupidity had caused a fall. He would have been sent out for a long spell then.
The 1993 Golden Slipper field was far from the best we’ve ever seen, but Mick Dittman’s ride on Bint Marscay from the outside barrier was. Those jockeys not old enough to remember L. Dittman should watch this ride and learn. He was a great rider Mick. Which you’d expect because he was a Queenslander. Bint […]
By John Lingard: letsgohorseracing.com.au QRIC Deputy Commissioner Kim Kelly has responded (from Saudi Arabia where he is a keynote speaker at the Asian Racing Conference) to criticism of the handling of an inquiry involving Kyle Wilson-Taylor and emanating from the Doomben meeting last Saturday. Here is Kim’ response: ‘THERE has been some commentary and opinions […]
Artists are notoriously hard to handle. Van Gogh was a madman who ended up in an asylum, but they knew how to let him paint. Da Vinci did what he wanted to, regardless of what he was told. So did Jackson Pollock, the painter of Blue Poles. And Hunter S Thompson, my favorite writer. No-one […]
