Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We can’t find any record of Grubby Day having been suspended in the past month, so you can only assume that this is appeal into an unpublished penalty that he has been issued for disappearing from the Ewan races last month when officials with human swab kits turned up on course. It will be interesting […]
What on earth was Zac Lloyd thinking when he elected to take Steffi Magnetica off the fence to try to barge a run through the middle between Lazzet and Makarena in the Golden Eagle? It was madness. The French had aready drifted off the fence when Lloyd made his fateful decision, and it was only […]
Mark Zahra had to sweat blood to ride Estriella at 55kg in the Robert Sangster in April, and said at the time he couldn’t remember the last time he’d ridden so light. After accepting the mount on Circle of Fire in the Melbourne Cup yesterday, the top jockey now has 96 hours in which to […]
I’m not sure whether it’s just me, or whether I am being unduly influenced by the price fluctuations when forming my suspicions, so I will ask you for your opinion. Did the ride on the 2nd horse over the concluding stages look a bit odd? The winner had been backed from $5.50 into $1.85. The […]
Take a look at this ride of Noel Callow in the 4th race at Doomben yesterday, and tell me how he avoided a suspension for either not giving his mount every possible opportunity to obtain the best finishing position, or alternatively for failing to ride the horse out to the finish. Callow is on Who […]
The rider of the leader in this race at Leicester must feel like a foo. He damn should too. Jockeys get paid to ride them the whole way around, not just for half. The bloke’s a bloody idiot.
Now Richmond in outback Queensland is a long way from anywhere, and petrol costs $2 a litre. So what are the chances of getting 4 jockeys to spend $200 in fuel and half a day one way and half a night home driving on dusty roads lined with kangaroos seven feet tall so they can […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has been advised that a licensed jockey was arrested by Queensland Police for an offence against the Criminal Code. Queensland Racing Integrity Commissioner Catherine Clark said that the participant’s licence has been suspended immediately. “QRIC’s role is to maintain the integrity of racing so the jockey will be stood down […]
Australia’s oldest jockey Keith Ballard is retiring. So he should too after what happened in race 5 at Mt Isa on the 28th of last month. Ballard rode a Tanya Perry trained 3-year-old gelding named Invading Jilly in the race, and up to until 200 meters from home he rode it well too, popping in […]
We are advised that Bailey Wheeler suffered a dislocated shoulder when a Currie trained runner flipped over behind the barriers at Toowoomba and landed on him. That injury has kept him out for the past month. Wheeler is still apprenticed to Robert Heathcote last anyone heard, and he is back riding this week. Question answered. […]
