Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There has been a terrible fall this morning in the first race at Te Aroho in New Zealand, with jockeys Craig Grylls and Jasmine Fawcett both hitting the ground hard. Miraculously both jockeys appear to be okay. It’s a bloody dangerous game this racing caper, and we don’t appreciate how brave these jockeys who keep […]
Gun 19-year-old apprentice jockey Bailey Wheeler needs to grow up, get off the piss and learn to behave himself if he wants a career riding at the top level for a hyper-disciplined, super successful trainer like his current master Annabel Neesham. Wheeler has only just been granted a comeback date from a spell of next […]
What went on here in race 4 at the Gold Coast yesterday? Nothing good, that’s for sure. not unless you were on the plunge horse Unzaga which firmed from $3.20 into $2.45 and bolted in with it’s head on it’s chest. It had to the way this race was run, which was if winning jockey […]
Tommy Berry has been praised from the rooftop by his adoring fans in the mainstream media since returning to riding after serving time for his corrupt dealings with the accused criminal Zaid Miller, aka the Butcher, with the madding crowd seemingly forgetting the context and content of his relationship with Butch, including clear references to […]
Former jockey turned trackwork rider Bruce Powell is clearly a slow learner. This week Powell was dealt with after returning his 3rd positive swab to the leafy green substance cannabis following tests conducted at early morning work at Deagon in September, following on from his most recent breach in late 2017 at Esk when he […]
Gemma Hogg is no stranger to serious horsepower – in more ways than one. The 31-year-old from Emerald, Queensland is possibly the only woman in Australia juggling simultaneous careers as a jockey and a truckie. And while this takes an incredible amount of discipline and organisation, Hogg isn’t the type to be put off by […]
Mark Zahra’s $50 000 fine and 7 meeting suspension for striking Without A Fight with the whip 9 times prior to the 100m mark in the Caulfield Cup is the 2nd most severe penalty that I can ever remember being handed down to a rider for breaching the whip rule, behind only Kerrin McEvoy’s massive […]
Top flight heavyweight Brisbane jockey Brad Stewart was forced to retire from the saddle earlier this year due to serious injuries that he had suffered in a freak accident in the tie up stalls, when a horse went crazy and somersaulted on top of him, breaking Stewart’s pelvis in 4 places. It was a terrible […]
Craig Williams has copped a bit of stick in recent months, particularly from the connections of Giga Kick who seemed to believe that the jockey should have been giving their horse a soft run first-up rather than trying his hardest to win. As a punter I vehemently disagree with that school of thought, and believe […]
The Culprit! #Griff pic.twitter.com/Xql1gIAfOF — Ben melham (@BMelham) October 16, 2023 Was the man on the ladder to blame for Griff ducking out near the line in the Caulfield Guineas and costing Ben Melham a 10 meeting suspension? Melham – who posted the picture on Twitter – certainly seems to think so, and it makes […]
