Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
STEWARDS REPORT – TOWNSVILLE TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2026 OVERLAND (NZ) Began awkwardly. Shifted in abruptly near the 250 metres, contacting OKAY ZOOMER. Rider Ryan Wiggins was reminded of his obligation to exercise greater care when shifting ground in similar circumstances. Stewards further advised Jockey Wiggins that his riding in recent times had, on several occasions, […]
Archie It appears the stewards had a very firm word with Mr Wiggin’s reminding him to stop being naughty, that is all. Judges in Queensland courts used to do the same thing with teenage criminals too. That worked well didn’t it? When my kids are playing up at home I find grounding them by cutting […]
I have written so often about jockey Ryan Wiggins errant riding lately that I am almost starting to feel like I’m picking on him, but rest assured I’m not. It’s just that Wiggins has been showing so little regard both for the rules and for his fellow competitors in recent weeks that I feel compelled […]
Black Hex is, with all due respect to the horse and its connections, a walker and an absolute cat. In its ten start racing career prior to the 12th of June this year the cheaply bred 4YO gelding had only once ever run a place, in a weak maiden at Stony Creek on a Heavy […]
Queensland jockey Corey Bayliss has been jailed for 2 years after pleading guilty to strangling his former partner in front of their child, and then threatening to distribute intimate visual recordings of the poor woman unfortunate enough to have been the victim of his evil acts. Both crimes were domestic violence offences, at a time […]
Jockey Ryan Wiggins has been in more trouble than Flash Gordon for careless riding in recent weeks. He was very lucky to get away with this one at the Coast yesterday with only a reprimand. Wiggins is on the horse in the black silks with blue stars and hooped sleeves. The one that bores in […]
Has anyone been wondering why the once highly promising apprentice turned senior jockey Corey Bayliss hasn’t been riding lately. If this chap who appeared for sentence in the Ipswich District Court last week is the same person as he – not that we are asserting that it is – then we might just have the […]
There are a lot of questions being asked about Blake Shinn’s ride on the beaten favorite Somethings Burnin’s in the second race at Sandown yesterday, and with very good reason to, because the jockey slaughtered it. This horse should have won by panels, and it was straight down to Shinn’s steer that it didn’t. Shinn […]
Jockey Luke Tarrant was yesterday sentenced to 4 1/2 years jail after pleading guilty to three armed robberies on the Sunshine Coast last December and January. Tarrant, armed with a syringe presumably filled with his own blood, twice robbed the same takeaway store and on a separate occasion held up a 7/11, traumatizing the shop […]
Former star jockey turned wasted youth and wastrel Luke Tarrant’s day of reckoning arrives as faces sentence in the District Court this morning on armed robbery charges. Tarrant, who has presumably pleaded guilty, will appear via video link from jail, which is an ominous sign for his chances of seeing Christmas this year a free […]
