Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Blake Shinn is not an executive member of the Victoria Jockeys Association, but as he showed by issuing the media release pictured at the top of this story, he is a leader of men. Everyone knows that the jockeys should be paid for riding in jump outs, it’s simple common sense, even if Ciaron Maher […]
No-one has ever accused one-time boom apprentice Michael Murphy of being a fast learner. Some even go as far as to assert that the young man is incapable of learning, and never does. Based on the evidence of the official Stewards report of the Toowoomba meeting last Saturday night they might even be right at […]
It was comeback jockey Aidan Holt’s birthday on Saturday. He celebrated it with a win on Stick To Your Guns in the last race at Cairns. It was a heady happy birthday ride. The Stewards gave A. Holt a gift to mark the occasion. A 13-day suspension. Tightwads they are. He deserved at least 3 […]
In what seems to be an extended season of racing licensees making appearances in court on various types of criminal charges, we look to Tasmania and find another one. No it’s not Ben Yole, even though it should be. Chainsaw is facing workplace health and safety charges at present, not criminal ones. That task is […]
Archie, Very good decision from the Racing Appeals Panel. Mase Abe’s disqualification confirmed. To serve the full 16 months. Two questions though. Why was Abe not stood down when his betting activity was discovered or when the investigation commenced? Further, why were 3 bets on different days on different horses in races in which he […]
You hate to keep writing about a bloke too often, lest he starts telling people you’re picking on him, but when it comes t0 jockey Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day, well the bloke just invites the attention of a Far North QLD based racing writer doesn’t he? The latest is that Grubby seems to have enjoyed his […]
Having read the comments made by Justice Bowman in his decision to warn the punter Noah Brasch off for 10 years, I feel confident to say that jockeys Michael Poy and Lewis Germain are looking at very long stints out of racing when their matters come to sentencing. They might even get life, Poy particularly, […]
Poor Travis Harrison, the kid on our left. He never made it into the senior riding ranks, losing his life at the age of just 18 in a car accident on the way home from an apprentice jockey mate’s birthday party. The other kid in the picture – Travis’s cousin – has achieved enough in […]
Central Coast trackwork rider Gary Kramer has been suspended for 22 months after throwing a personal positive swab to banned illegal drugs after riding in trackwork at Port Macquarie in late September. The sentence may appear harsh, but its not given that this was the fifth time that Kramer has returned a positive to drugs. […]
The ridiculous recent trend of jockeys failing to ride their mounts out fully to the finish continued in the 3rd race at Eagle Farm yesterday, when Cody Collis dropped his hands on the well fancied Heartoni and cost it 3rd place. In a sure sign that the Stewards are getting mighty sick of the […]
