Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is the head on replay of the run down the home straight in race 2 at Townsville on Sunday. You have to watch it to understand the rest of the story. It’s short and quick. Ryan Wiggins – who only the day before had copped an 8 day suspension for careless riding in Cairns […]
Jockey Ash Butler can consider himself the luckiest rider at Cannon Park on Cairns Cup day. Butler rode the winner Colleano, which swept past them down the outside at the 100m mark and looked set to run away for a commanding victory. Until believing that his mount was home to the world, Butler sat up […]
LIVALITTLE (NZ) – Jockey D. Moor pleaded guilty to a charge pursuant to AR132(7)(a)(ii) for using his whip on 9 occasions prior to the 100m, 14 in totality. Jockey Moor’s license to ride in races was suspended for a period of 7 days, to commence at midnight 5th September 2026 and to conclude at midnight […]
Excited about the brilliance, strength and courage of Zac Lloyd’s winning ride, I messaged the following about him to my mate, whose opinion I respect. I reckon he is very, very close to McDonald In ability and everything else Total professionals My mate replied in a totally respectful tone that only amplified the fact that […]
Daniel Ganderton rode at Devonport on Wednesday. Two later later he was appearing in he criminal court in the same city on two separate matters dating back to 2023 and 2024. What are the charges? Why has Ganderton been allowed to continue riding while on bail? I don’t know the answers to either of those […]
The jockey formerly known as Terry Treichel has beaten the odds and will return to the saddle at Taree on Monday. Now going by his new legal name Daniel Jack Smith, the jockey who was disqualified between 2020 and 2026 by Northern Territory Stewards after pleading guilty to thirty rule breach charges related to betting […]
See jockey Bailey Wheeler on the horse in the red and white stick his right arm out and push fellow rider Tahlia Fenton back in, just as she was about to come around the grey and take her rightful run to its outside? That wasn’t careless by Wheeler. It was deliberate. Foul riding it was […]
QLD provincial rider Peta Edwards got a bit carried away with the ship in race 6 at the Cairns Amateur meeting on the weekend. She hit her horse 8 times prior to the 100m mark – 5 strikes is the maximum allowed – and 24 times in total, nine strikes above the limit of fifteen. […]
Transplanted Irish jockey did nothing for the cause of ending jokes about his countrymen by his ride on Romans Luck in the 7th race at Morphettville today. It was a joke. For some reason Murtagh got it into his head that because all the winners on the day had been moving to the outside in […]
There is a huge crowd at Cannon Park up here in Cairns today for the Amateurs today, and its great to see given the travails that the meeting has encountered in recent years. Sadly as so often happens on rain affected surfaces at the track, we have once again this year seen in the first […]
