Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We appreciate that we’re starting to sound like a broken record, but it’s not our fault it’s his. By he we mean Australia’s most suspended apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray, who was sent on yet another holiday by the Stewards at the Gold Coast yesterday. This time the persistent rules breaker wasn’t outed for careless riding […]
Supplementary Report: Kembla Grange – 10 August 2024 Race 3: Abax Contracting Super Maiden Handicap 1000m: Stewards concluded an inquiry into D. Yeo’s handling of Honey Perfume in the abovementioned race. Evidence was taken from D. Yeo and the filly’s trainer, Mr M. Smith. Stewards also considered a report into the wagering on the event […]
Queensland’s most suspended apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray got done again for careless riding yesterday at Doomben. He’d only been back from his most recent holiday for the same offence for 4 days. This bloke refuses to learn. I don’t know whether he is incapable of understanding the prime importance of riding safely to keep other […]
Watch the horse on the inside in the red behind the leader. See what jockey John Rudd does? He sits up early. It costs his mount 4th place. Rudd copped a 14-day suspension. He was a bit stiff I reckon. Watch it again in slow motion. What the hell was that white post doing positioned […]
There was a protest 2nd v 1st in race 5 at Doomben yesterday. The 2nd horse was on the outside in the blue, red cap and white sleeves. It’s rider Dale Smith protested against the winner ridden by Kyle Wilson-Taylor, who is in the middle in the white with red hooped sleeves and white cap, […]
In one of the more bizarre matters to come before the Stewards this year, 20-year-old NSW apprentice jockey Holly Durnan has been suspended for 3 months after being found guilty of workplace harassment involving taking an offensive photograph of a fellow female rider in the jockeys room and sending the image to another racing participant. […]
There is no more exciting spectacle in racing that watching two champion jockeys at the peak of their powers going hammer and tong, head to head down the straight in a battle of wits and skill. Yesterday at Rosehill we had the pleasure of seeing it in the shape of Joao Moreira v James McDonald. […]
Further to our story yesterday about one M. Currie trained galloper setting a brutal speed in front that was perfect for it stablemate who came from behind and won, here is the official Stewards report as it relates to the matter. Depth Charge Began awkwardly. Stewards inquired into the tactics adopted on the gelding, specifically […]
As if Sariah Champkin didn’t have enough problems already, here’s another one. Champkin is a bankrupt. The QRIC have issues with licensing bankrupt jockeys, because of the perception that they may be vulnerable to copping slings to ride their mounts uncompetitively, or in other words to hook them. It is for that reason that riders […]
Dan McGillivray has one of the worst careless riding records of any current jockey in Queensland. It’s so bad that I’ve given up counting the number of suspensions that McGillivray has received, or the amount of time that he has spent on the sidelines through suspension. This is the bloke we wrote about 2 months […]
