Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Luke Tarrant had it all. He could have been anything, anywhere. But he just couldn’t stay on the straight and narrow. It seems he still can’t. There is no-one to blame for his troubles but him. Herb from Hughenden Editor’s note – Luke Tarrant’s strike rates over the past 5 seasons paint a clear picture […]
Disqualified jockey Luke Tarrant has posted on social media denying that he either failed to make submissions to a Stewards Inquiry into the legitimacy of his Health Assessment Reports or make a plea on charges laid against him as stated by the QRIC Stewards. The Stewards found that during a Stewards’ Inquiry conducted at Doomben […]
Troubled jockey Luke Tarrant, who if his recent very concerning social media posts are any indication is suffering from severe drug related health issues, has been disqualified for a year after failing to lodge a plea or give evidence into his having submitted false Health Assessment Reports for the years 2020-2025. Tarrant neither lodge a […]
Former jockey turned accused killer Gavin Rolls (pictured) remains in custody after his application for bail was unable to be heard on Wednesday due to a failure by the prosecution to provide him with the relevant evidence relied upon in the matter. Rolls, aged 47, who is accused of murdering his stepfather Michael Hegerty in […]
I don’t know who the person that QRIC Senior Steward in North QLD Paul Gillard told what you see above to, or if Gillard said it at all, but if he did it raises huge doubts about one of the most experiences members of the QRIC race day integrity team’s actual knowledge of the the […]
I came across this photo of rider Wanderson D’Avila in the jockeys room at Saturday’s Gordonvale race meeting while scrolling through the pictures posted on the Facebook page of the superb North QLD racing photographer Peter Roy. Sadly for jockey D’Avila, as well as being a great photo – my wife just walked past and […]
HITS Kerrin McEvoy – Autumn Glow Sheer perfection. How you should ride the best horse in a race. Tyler Schiller – Briasa Positioned the glorious grey mare perfectly a couple of lengths off the leaders, showed the patience of job in the straight by cuddling Briasa all the way up the rise, hit the button […]
Jamie Melham is being bagged all over the place for her ride on Gilded Water in the Bart Cummings at Flemington yesterday, but I reckon you have to feel sorry for her really. Melham was riding to instructions by going to the front, but how could she have known that once she got there the […]
Powder Puff looks to sweet to be the kind of hoop who would punch a horse, doesn’t she? Queensland jockey Ceejay ‘Powder Puff’ Graham has been suspended for a week after pleading guilty to an improper action at Caloundra last Sunday. Graham – who has been out of form this season sitting outside the top […]
The news that the Stewards have charged jockey Noel Callow with failing to front a further inquiry into recordings he allegedly made and published while in Darwin last year is hugely disappointing, and something of an affront to human decency and common sense. Callow is unwell and the Stewards know or should suspect that, for […]
