You Bloody Idiot
The rider of the leader in this race at Leicester must feel like a foo. He damn should too. Jockeys get paid to ride them the whole way around, not just for half. The bloke’s a bloody idiot.
The Genius of Queensland Race Scheduling
Now Richmond in outback Queensland is a long way from anywhere, and petrol costs $2 a litre. So what are the chances of getting 4 jockeys to spend $200 in fuel and half a day one way and half a night home driving on dusty roads lined with kangaroos seven feet tall so they can […]
QLD Jockey Stood Down After Arrest
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has been advised that a licensed jockey was arrested by Queensland Police for an offence against the Criminal Code. Queensland Racing Integrity Commissioner Catherine Clark said that the participant’s licence has been suspended immediately. “QRIC’s role is to maintain the integrity of racing so the jockey will be stood down […]
Keith Ballard Pulls the Whip on a Horse With a Broken Leg
Australia’s oldest jockey Keith Ballard is retiring. So he should too after what happened in race 5 at Mt Isa on the 28th of last month. Ballard rode a Tanya Perry trained 3-year-old gelding named Invading Jilly in the race, and up to until 200 meters from home he rode it well too, popping in […]
Bailey Wheeler Back Riding Work
We are advised that Bailey Wheeler suffered a dislocated shoulder when a Currie trained runner flipped over behind the barriers at Toowoomba and landed on him. That injury has kept him out for the past month. Wheeler is still apprenticed to Robert Heathcote last anyone heard, and he is back riding this week. Question answered. […]
Where in the World is Bailey Wheeler?
What’s happened to the highly controversial and troubled but uber talented apprentice jockey Bailey Wheeler? He hasn’t had a ride for a month, not since the Weetwood meeting on the 28th of September. Last we heard publicly his apprenticeship had been transferred to Robert Heathcote as master, but Wheeler has disappeared from the trainer’s website […]
T. Thornton Misses a Suspension by That Much
Queensland jockey Trudy Thornton narrowly missed being suspended for a month in the third race at the Sunshine Coast. Thornton stopped riding the runner-up out at the 50m mark and if she hadn’t had the good fortune of the horse hanging on to run second by a lip it would have been an unplanned holiday […]
While the Cats Away, the Mice Will Play
While the eyes of the world were watching the big name riders go around at Randwick and Caulfield yesterday, lesser light jockeys around the nation were having big days out too. Justin Stanley takes the prize for most winners anywhere after he landed a fabulous five on the card at Rockhampton, and all of them […]
A. Rule Won’t Get a Ride at the Melham/Kah Xmas Table This Year
Andrew Rule is one person who certainly won’t be on Ben Melham and Jamie Kah’s Christmas card this year, after the pair blew up big time after reading a story about Kah penned by the award winning crime and racing writer that was published yesterday in the Sun Herald (see story below). Melham was the […]
Andrew Rule: Wild ride but Kah still has eyes on the prize
When Jamie Kah hit Victoria, she seemed to be pure heroine. It was early 2019 and the best scorer out of Adelaide since the Chappell brothers packed her Range Rover and headed east. She stopped at Strathalbyn races and nailed two winners and a second from six rides, topping up her strike rate of one […]