Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ka Ying Rising was the Mike Tyson of the racing world. The superstar of the sport, an equine athlete who couldn’t be beaten by anyone. Or so we all thought. Tyson entered the ring in Tokyo against Buster as the $1.02 favourite, with Douglas at $47.00 to beat him. When Tyson knocked Buster down and […]
Kyle Wilson-Taylor has returned to QLD after his sojourn in the Kiwi winter cold and sleet. It wasn’t a very successful one, KWT went over to Aotearoa talked up as the next thing. But he didn’t deliver. Four winners from eighty rides was his record, at a miserable strike rate of just 5%. It’s no […]
Story by CNN In the weird and wonderful history of horse racing, Frank Hayes holds a unique place. On June 4, 1923 at New York’s Belmont Park, the 22-year-old (or 35, according to some newspaper reports at the time) won the only race of his career on the horse Sweet Kiss. He also became the […]
A prominent Queensland jockey has been jailed after strangling a woman for 10 long seconds before later threatening to distribute an intimate video of the victim if she didn’t comply with his demands. Patrick Billings, Courier Mail 12/10/2026 A prominent Queensland jockey has been jailed after strangling a woman for 10 long seconds before later […]
We have been warning people about the dangers of Tanya Parry’s method of racing busted horses in the bush for ages, not because we have anything against Parry personally, because we don’t. Because we know that busted horses break down, and that puts people and horses in peril. We saw it today at Cloncurry when […]
It is difficult to tell without the benefit of a head-in replay – which we don’t have because Racing QLD has censored it from its website – but it seems to me that one or more jockeys might have some big problems when the inquiry into the dual fall at Townsville on Sunday that put […]
Tyler Schiller is best known as a highly successful Group 1 winning jockey who has ridden in a Melbourne Cup. At heart though he is a trot man, just his grandad Phil Schiller was back in the day. Two years backs Tyler paid $18 000 at the APG Sydney sale for a colt by Downbytheseaside. […]
Ben Melham sat up on Skybird in the Group 2 Gilgai Stakes at Flemington and very nearly got it beaten. Melham was fined $2000 for his actions, or inactions, as the case may be. Austin Galati sat up on the second horse in the same race. He was fined $1000. Both are senior riders, and […]
Ben Melham almost gave punters who backed Skybird in the Gilgai yesterday a heart attack when, thinking he had the race easily in his grasp, he stopped riding and sat up with about 30m to go, allowing the favorite to cruise to the line under its own speed. The problem for Melham was that the […]
As we reported last week, Cairns trainer Bodine Bailey jumped on Facebook and encouraged one of his friends to bash a jockey about the same height as the one with him in the picture, or perhaps even a little smaller. What sort of bloke does that, especially one his size? Behaviour like that’s pretty piss […]
