Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 5: HYGAIN CLASS 3 PLATE 1000 M HEAD HONCHO – Began fairly then tightened for room between SO ODELIA and LAST LAUGH and lost ground. Travelled three-wide without cover throughout. Stewards questioned the Jockey Michael McDonald regarding his riding of HEAD HONCHO throughout the event. In explanation jockey McDonald stated that after the interference […]
Take a look at this ride by Micheal McDonald on the odds on favorite Head Honcho in the 5th at Townsville today. It’s the horse in the blue and white. McDonald flops it out of the gate last. He then drives it up to make ground, but instead of positioning it one off the fence […]
Here we go again. Another jockey decides to knock off early and cost his mount’s owners money. Keep you eye on the horse in the lime and two tones of blue on the fence behind the leading pack. Watch rider Corey Bayliss decide about 30m before the finish that he is tired of riding in […]
Everyone’s favorite North QLD jockey and successful self-represented litigant Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day didn’t have a very good one at the Cairns races yesterday. You never do when you cop two suspensions in the same race within the space of half a furlong. Grubby was on the leader. He gave poor old Ryan Wiggins on the […]
AR 23 Suspension pending the hearing and determination of a charge Without limiting any other rules or Stewards’ powers, if a person has been charged with a breach of the Rules or with the commission of an indictable criminal offence, and if the Stewards are of the opinion that the continued participation of that person […]
Jockey Justin Huxtable has been successful in his appeal against the indefinite suspension of his riders license pending the resolution of the criminal charges he is presently facing. The Racing Appeals Panel determined that in accordance with the Human Rights Act QLD there were orders other than a full suspension that they could impose on […]
William Pike is riding the favorite Processio. It is the horse in the yellow buried three back the fence. Pike put it there early in the race. How hard does the King of the sneak split try to get it 0ut. You be the judge. I backed it so I’d only be talking through my […]
Controversial jockey Justin Huxtable has lodged an appeal against his indefinite standdown by the QRIC after he was charged with a criminal offence. Huxtable’s appeal will be heard by the Racing Appeals Panel on Thursday. We wish him the best of luck. Given the subject matter of his police charge and his subsequent conduct he […]
Make what you will of Nash Rawiller’s ride on How Dare You in the 5th race at Canterbury last night. We’ve made ours and the Stewards have made theirs, and our opinions don’t align. This thing looked as dead as a maggot to us. The stipes don’t agree. What’s your view? RACE 5: Piccolo Me […]
Last week we wrote an article bemoaning the seeming rash of riders who want to clock 0ff work early by stopping riding their horses out fully bef0re the reach the finishing line. It must be a rampant disease running through the riding ranks or something, for yesterday in the last race at Doomben another damn […]
