Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Stewards investigation as husband seemingly lets wife’s horse through at Caulfield Stewards are investigating a race at Caulfield last Saturday featuring husband and wife jockey pair Ben and Jamie Melham. Jamie Melham (née Kah) won the race on Jimmy Recard, but got a clean run along the rails thanks to husband Ben’s horse Shaggy, which […]
Hot on the heels of racing medical clearance fraudster Liam Sharrock being disqualified for 9 months for submitting false doctor’s reports for the past 3 years. we now have another bloody idiot who has been done for the same thing. Like Sharrock, licensed trackwork rider Jeffrey McKay also submitted doctored copies of his 2021 medical […]
Ben Melham was suspended for 8 meetings for careless riding on Shaggy in Vain Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday, but many are asking questions about whether the rider’s actions were indeed careless or whether they may have been something a whole lot worse. The race was won by Melham’s wide Jamie aboard Jimmy Recard, which […]
Express Class Slow to begin. Near the 250m was inconvenienced and shifted wider to avoid the heels of Hay Street which had shifted in advance of him. Shaggy Began awkwardly and shifted out. Passing the 300m shifted out and made contact with Shining Smile. When questioned regarding his riding rounding the home turn and in the early […]
Queensland hoop Sariah Champkin achieved a rare but unwelcome feat when she scored two careless riding suspensions in the one race at Beaudesert on Saturday. Champkin riding the runner-up Missy No Nay crossed Ace’s In Bloom near the 1000m mark when not sufficiently clear of that horse, crowding it for room and causing that horse […]
The recording below is of one time top-line jockey (now retired) Gavin Eades abusing his then partner. We are only publishing it because the woman victim of the vile verbal attack has returned to the UK to live, presumably at least in part to get away from Eades. People’s private lives are usually their own, […]
Group 1 Gav runs this joint. Or so he says. Presumably he is talking about Flemington. which appears to be in the picture behind him. Gavin doesn’t give a fuck. He’s not scared of anyone. We are. We’re scared of drivers like him being on the road. How did they ever allow this man into […]
Notwithstanding the concerns expressed in our previous story about inequities in the application by Stewards of the rules, the decision to stand Noel Callow down is in our view the correct one. There is just no excuse for Callow’s racist conduct shown in the video below, and while it happened outside of racing what the […]
In a week in which female riders Angela Jones and Emily Lang are quite rightly getting all the attention as they battle for the Brisbane premiership, another amazing achievement by women jockeys has gone largely overlooked. Last Saturday at Middlemount every rider on the card was female. Out on the track up in the saddle […]
I’M FAMOUS – Jockey R Wilson was questioned in relation to her riding of the mare in the home straight, it was established that she had become jaded as she had only recently returned to race riding. Considering the circumstances stewards admonished Ms Wilson and advised her that when accepting rides she must present herself […]
