Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Blood drowned brain dead bits It has come to our attention that we made an ignorant error in our story about apprentice jockey Tom Orr being fined $200 for not claiming his allowance at Thangool on Saturday. We said that Racing QLD and the QRIC were negligent for allowing a 1.5kg claiming apprentice like Orr […]
The TAB are as usual ont0 it. Not. They have Robbie Dolan riding at Eagle Farm tomorrow. It would be a good trick. The poor kid is in hospital with his arm in traction after breaking his hand on Saturday afternoon in a fall at the Sunshine Coast. Yet three days later the TAB seem […]
We give Stewards heaps here on peterprofit.com, but none of it is ever personal, or intended to be anyway. Often we will slag the stipes off over what we perceive as performance issues, but like all of our stories it’s said through the lens of a bloke in the public bar at the Geebung RSL […]
South African trained jockey Sean Cormack is a very, very good hoop, far too good to be riding in Townsville on a Saturday afternoon. Cormack has won 14 Group 1 races. That’s more than Ethan Brown, and you wouldn’t see him hunting around in North QLD when there were richer races on offer much closer […]
I backed Torque To Be Sure in the Magic Millions Guineas yesterday, so thank God I wasn’t on the Stewards panel, because I would have upheld the protest and cost myself plenty. That interference was all Ben Melham’s, and it cost Ninja the race. Everyone wanted to talk about the margin, but that is not […]
Story by Aaron Kelly, ABC Angela Jones can still remember being bucked off her pony onto a prickle bush as a kid on the family farm. Then there’s her first horse that her father, Jason, bought for a carton of beer. Not to mention taking an equine companion along with her to boarding school in […]
What the hell sort of ride was this by apprentice Olivia Kendall on the $7.50 shot Strike Me Pink in the last race at Toowoomba on Saturday night? Take a look at it. Strike Me Pink is in the pink and black colors, fifth on its own as the film starts. The horse that Kendall […]
Gee D. Moor is a brilliant rider. Watch his steer on The Black Cloud here. It’s the horse in the green and black. A lesser jockey would have gone for the run in the middle and been squeezed and checked. Not Moor. He was going to take the middle run, but being possessed of that […]
Ever wonder why so many top jockeys move to Hong Kong the moment they get the offer of a contract? The answer is simple. Money, money, money. You can earn bucketloads of it in Honkers, and you pay a maximum of only 17% tax on it, usually about 10% on average. Compare that to Australia […]
Enigmatic jockey Bailey Wheeler was interviewed by Ben Dorries for a story published on Racenet last week, and in it the talented young rider bemoans the fact that he is currently unlicensed because he didn’t finish the required training modules required to complete his apprenticeship. What Bailey Wheeler didn’t say, and what Dorries didn’t tell […]
