Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Fred Kersley is not generally regarded as an elite class jockey of the ilk of Williams, Zahra or Melham, but on the evidence of this virtuoso steer below that rating is very unfair. This ride was inch perfect. Kersley (in the Godolphin royal blue silks) was riding Simplicity, the $3.30 second favorite. It was one […]
Dale Evans wouldn’t have bet in Nic Me Some race via the account/s he was caught putting the 2ooo plus bets on with, otherwise his penalty would have started at a minimum 2 year DQ less any special circumstances discount applied. That’s not to say that he didn’t bet in that race via a third […]
Will Queensland racing be offering any counselling to Dale Evans for his clearly apparent gambling addiction, now that he has been banned from riding due to his betting on races in Australia and more so overseas with online bookmakers? We all know that these days bookmakers are loathe to accept bets from punters that hold […]
Archie, Attached is an article written by racecaller/journalist Tony McMahon. It is checked and correct. Now I agree the responsibility to weigh in falls on the jockey. However, what were Stewards doing? The chairman of the meeting was 22yo Hayden Gillett. Gillett is still listed on the QRIC staff chart as a cadet (and was […]
Some cynics suggested that we were being harsh on jockey Dale Evans when we unloaded on him about his ride on Nic Some More at Mackay in December 2o23, and asserted that he rode the horse dead. That we were spot on was proven when the Stewards found him guilty of what we and later […]
Jockey Anthony Allen appeared before the Racing Appeals Panel yesterday to appeal an alleged matter relating to a penalty handed down against him for careless riding. The question is why? What suspension is he actually appealing? Under the laws governing racing appeals in QLD, those like careless riding that attract a penalty of a disqualification […]
Queensland apprentice jockey Cody Collis hasn’t ridden in a race since the 29th of April 2023, eleven days after he had been found with a mobile phone in his possession in the jockeys room at a TAB race meeting in Warwick. The reason for Collis’s absence from the track for almost the entirety of the […]
Masa Hashizume was the hat trick hero at Ellerslie on Derby Day. Today’s he’s the villain. Watch Masa come off this horse that was looming up to beat Kozzie Asano’s mount. Did he fall or did he jump? You be the judge. Footnote – Hashizume wasn’t injured in the tumble
We are reliably informed that the words exchanged by jockeys Thomas and Morrison are not the subject stewards inquiry into a mounting yard incident after the running of the last race. Mud in our eye. Sorry Nathan and Lacey. All we can say in our defense is that we were having a stab in the […]
New Zealand Racing has a specialized program to attract overseas apprentice riders to come over to live there and learn their trade by riding in the country. A prospective apprentice must have achieved a score of 5.5 on their International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam, which is compulsory to sit and means that they […]
