Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
You shouldn’t laugh about dangerous racing incidents, but what were the odds of Jamie Kah being involved in a near-accident while attempting to take a needle eye split on the rails in the same week that she was outed for 3 weeks for not taking one up the middle? If yesterday’s interference that lead to […]
Stewards have issued an all points missing person bulletin for jockey Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day following his mysterious disappearance from the Ewan racecourse in North QLD yesterday without fulfilling an engagement. Day arrived on course at the track in the largely abandoned former tin mining town on the banks of the Stockyard Creek prior to weigh-in […]
Keep your eyes on apprentice Braith Nock in the lime and red silks and red cap, second from the outside, in this race at Hawkesbury last Saturday week. Watch what he does to the rider and horse on his outside, first with his knee and then with his elbow. Nock pleaded guilty to a charge […]
Archie Thanks for noting the Daniel Ganderton penalty, I missed that one hidden at the bottom of a steward report rather than being a separate enquiry as it should have been. Chief Steward Bruce Free ‘Ride’ had 3 misconduct matters to deal with, and he sounded like the old broken record on each one with […]
If this protest decision in the 5th at Mackay on Tuesday wasn’t a raw prawn left out in the sun for six days, then I don’t one that was. The horse in the yellow and olive diagonal stripes beats the one in the cream and brown on its outside by a nose. A protest if […]
We wrote just the other day about how easing up on a leader and getting beaten is a jockey’s worst nightmare. Michael Cahill is a bit old for having nightmares you would have thought, but you’d be wrong. The Group 1 winning rider with 4 decades of riding experience had one yesterday at Doomben, and […]
Most thought apprentice jockey Sariah Champkin’s racing career to be over after she was found guilty in July of assault occasioning bodily harm perpetrated against a fellow rider. Champkin’s own defense lawyer told the court that “unless the advice given to her, from authority itself, was wrong, her career in that industry is over.” The […]
Brazilian genius jockey Joao Moreira slips back into Sydney to take three rides for the Waller stable on Wednesday at Canterbury. The Magic Man’s return to ride in Australia has flown largely under the radar, but with the spring carnival approaching and Moreira’s services highly in demand wherever he goes, this could be the sign […]
Every jockey’s worst nightmare? Yeah for sure. Poor them. All they suffer humiliation and embarrassment, and maybe a lost ride. It costs those who backed the eased up early horse cold hard cash. The real victims of this horror show are the punters.
