Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If you are going to try and pull a swiftie on the Stewards by slipping them a doctored medical report, it would be sensible to check that the doctor who you are pretending wrote the report is still in business first. Trackwork rider Kirsty Mason isn’t semsible. She submitted a Health Assessment Results Form dated […]
Representatives from the Brisbane Racing Club attempted to argue that the construction was not causing the issue, which was rejected by the jockeys association. As all of the incidents have involved horses not from Brisbane, BRC officials raised the possibility of not allowing horses who have not raced at Eagle Farm to nominate in the […]
The picture above is an extract from a story writter by Trenton Akers and published on Racenet on 27 April 2o24 https://www.racenet.com.au/news/jimmysstar-burns-punters-again-in-brisbane-handicap-won-by-mighty-ulysses-20240427 I knew I’d seen it before. A horse shy at the exact same section of the Eagle Farm track as the one on Saturday that caused the fall did. I wrote a story […]
Jockey Brad Stewart has a shocking disciplinary history, having been outed on multiple occasions for alcohol and gamblng related offences, and once even jailed. In 2015 the Stewards gave Stewart a 3-month suspended ban for placing 17 bets on his TAB and Crownbet accounts, meaning that when he got sprung again in June having placed […]
Watch the replay of race 3 at Grafton on Sunday. Keep your eyes on the horse on the inside in these colours and the one on its outside in these ones . See how they jostle in the straight? The finish is a close photo but the one in the red black and yellow flashes […]
If you’d backed the horse on the outside in the 5th at Mt Isa today like we did, you would have torn up your ticket when its rider Chloe Lowe lost her iron at the furlong pole (the 200m mark for the youngsters). Chloe Lowe didn’t let go. Somehow against all odds thank to her […]
What is it with young female jockeys in Toowoomba and taking mobile phones into the riders room in breach of the rules? Last week it was Tahlia Fenton and Alisha Donald. This week it’s Shania Willis and Olivia Webb. Willis took her phone into the room despite having been afforded two opportunities to hand it […]
18-year-old apprentice Nikki Olzard had a day out at Ilfracomne yesteday, booting home 4 of winners on the 5 race card. It’s a feat never achieved by most riders, and stands as a testament to Olzard’s skill and dedication to her craft. The kid’s only been riding for just over a year, but is already […]
In scenes straight out of the movie Dumb and Dumber, apprentices Tahlia Fenton and Alisha Donald were both yesterday fined by Stewards at the Ipswich meeting for breaches of the rules relating to jockeys phone use. They should also have been charged with rank stupidity. Fenton’s offence involved using her mobile phone while in the […]
Michael Rodd’s ride on the leader Fifth Position in the 5th race at Eagle Farm yesterday was sheer lunacy, a misjudged steer of such magnitude by the senior rider that he should have been given time. The times say it all. Rodd took Fifth Position through the first 1200m of this BM78 class 1800m race […]
