Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Murders aren’t confined to the dance floor. They happen on race tracks too. Lucy Fiore proved that today in the first race at Kalgoorlie. It was a four horse race. Fiore was on the 10/9 ($2.10) favorite Twist Of Gold. She rode it like it was the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, popping it into the spot […]
Another four riders have taken the fall in the doctored Health Assessment Report scandal seemingly without end. Each of them pleaded guilty to submitting falsified reports for a single year. All were disqualified. Licensed stablehand Cameron Munro was banned for three months. Munro’s partner, trainer and trackwork rider Linda Gersekowski, got 4 months. Trackwork rider […]
Queensland jockey ‘Dancing’ Dan McGillivray has been disqualified for 7 months after admitting snorting some of Colombia’s finest (heavily cut) the night before a Kilcoy race meeting and then being silly enough to turn up to ride. The stipes had been tipped off so of course he got told to piss in a pottle and […]
I hate to say it but I am getting mighty sick and tired of writing about licensed riders getting caught trying to pull swifties on Racing Queensland, the QRIC and the entire industry by submitting doctored Health Assessment Reports (HAR). The line of jockeys getting caught acting dishonestly in this respect seems to just keep […]
In a decision that surprised many observers, including this writer, the QLD Racing Appeals Panel has upheld the decision of the Stewards to impose a ten-month disqualification Noel “King’ Callow over what have become known as the ‘Darwin Tapes’ containing audio and images of the jockey making racist slurs against indigenous people in Darwin last […]
It looks like we won’t be able to report live the Noel Callow decision. We seem to have been locked out of the video link, we’re not sure why. Guess we will have to catch up with events after they happen. Sorry about that.
It’s approaching midday and we are here at the Racing Appeals Panel to hear Judge Kerry O’Brien deliver the Panel’s judgement on the appeal of ‘King’ Noel Callow against his ten-month disqualification over the “Darwin Tapes”. The King will be hoping for a reduction in sentence, blue sky a fine, but at the very least […]
25-year-old Queensland apprentice rider Reece O’Connell has made one of the most spectacular starts to his riding career in recent memory, with a double at Dalby on the weekend coming on top of the treble he rode on debut at Nanango seven days before. O’Connell’s record now reads 10 rides for 5 wins, 2 seconds, […]
You don’t expect to see a horror show when you buy a ticket to get into the races, but the Sport of Kings is a funny game. Yesterday you did. Damian Lane’s slaughter job on Angel Capital. It was worse than any Chainsaw Massacre in Texas or anywhere else. Brutal t0 witness it was. Angel […]
Jockey Luke Tarrant has been posting these and other strange videos on his public Facebook page. A lot of racing people are concerned about his wellbeing, which is understandable. This is a cry for help if I have ever seen one. If you can do something to assist the kid, please do. It looks like […]
