Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Bailey Wheeler copped a 9 day suspension for his ride on the winner Ser Joh in the last at Doomben. He should consider himself very lucky. What Wheeler did was ownright dangerous. He came out right underneath Emily Lang’s mount Indaza, knocking it sideways into Jag Guthmann-Chester on Throwing Shade and causing interference to both […]
Wayne Hawkes reckons J-Mac went too early on Romantic Warrior in the Saudi Cup and got it beaten. “He slaughtered it!” Hawkes claims. It’s a fine line between genius and butcher. Who would have thought any horse could lift again like Forever Young did? But still it’s hard to disagree. It’s also hard to agree […]
Jim Byrne – careless riding – Seven (7) days commencing midnight 23/2/2025 up to and including midnight 2/3/2025. Angela Jones – careless riding – Nine (9) days commencing midnight 1/3/2025 up to and including midnight 11/3/2025. Corey Sutherland – breach whip rule – eleven (11) days commencing midnight Friday 28 February 2025, concluding midnight Tuesday […]
Watch the ride of jockey Michael ‘Big Mac’ McDonald on board Acclimatise in the first race at Cluden Park today. Acclimatise is the horse on the inside in the lime green and black or brown stripes. See Big Mac drop his hands and sit up with about 20m to go in the race? Did it […]
This is taken verbatim from the Stewards inquiry into Jason Maskiell’s hook job at Seymour. It was all his son’s broken collarbone’s fault. Jockey Maskiell’s mindset was all wrong. CHAIRMAN: Okay. Is there anything you want to put forward now to the Stewards? MASKIELL: Yeah. Yeah, just in hindsight, my mindset was probably a bit […]
Jason Maskiell in race 4 at Seymour on the 15th of November. He is in the green, yellow sleeves and red cap, riding the horse with the white blaze. Maskiell one race later, in the yellow with blue and red cap, near the fence. There is a bit of a difference in the rides isn’t […]
Is Sariah Champkin blind or deaf or something? How could she not not be aware that she had lost touch with the body of the field, when she was 4-5 lengths behind the second last horse for at least 600 metres? Is Champkin pulling our chains? Or is she really that limited as a professional […]
Apprentice Cody Collis blamed the soft track for the second favorite Borisova getting beaten in the first at Ipswich yesterday. He might as well have blamed the aliens too. The track didn’t beat Borisova. Collis planting the filly four-wide from barrier 5 and then running her even wider around the home turn did. It may […]
Have you noticed the number of heavyweight jockeys who are riding a whole lot lighter lately? Some who had to give up the game after losing the battle with weight are even coming out of retirement to return to race riding. We won’t list them by name because we empathize with their struggles, but we […]
Jason Maskiell was charged by Stewards before Xmas with the serious offence 0f failing to ride his mount My Schieller Wood on its merits in the Maiden Plate at Seymp0ur on the 15th of November. My Schieller Wood is the horse third on the fence in the green silks, yellow sleeve and red cap. It did […]
