Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Oh for the love of Pizza! Wiremu Pinn won 180 races in New Zealand including a Group 1. That Group 1 win was in the Otaki WFA Classic aboard Merv Butterworth’s grand but injury plagued galloper Marscapone, who at his two starts prior to the G1 win had run placing behind Levante, Entriviere and Roch […]
Race 3 at Barcaldine, 10th of June 2o23. The field gets to the 100m mark. And the screen goes blank. When the vision comes back on there are people running everywhere, and ambulances racing on to the track. The reason is because jockey Robbie Fraehr had taken a terrible fall 20 metres from home, has […]
This is race that is the immediate focus of attention of the Stewards investigating racing corruption. The horse that blew from $3.70 to $6.oo is Blistering, in the orange and white stripes, ridden by Lewis German. He is a crook, a thief, a cheat and a bum. The investigation is ongoing, but one thing is […]
JAPANESE-born jockey Yoko Ota is not a dreamer but she has spent half her life living in optimistic hope on a sometimes frightening roller coast ride in racing. The 35-year-old always wanted to be a jockey but her applications to join an apprentice school in Japan were twice turned down. She read of a Japanese apprentice jockey […]
We copped a bit of flack from racing people when we broke the story about Tommy Berry’s further undisclosed dealings with the Butcher (punter Zaid Miller), but we thought it was something that had to be told, because it involved things that affect punters, and that is who we write for here and in whose […]
In one of the most inane announcements ever made, Victorian Jockeys Association union boss Matt Hyland has declared that jockeys do not want 10 race cards in the city on a Saturday. The hoops are already burned out by the overly onerous Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, Sunday schedule says Hyland, and a 10 race […]
Number 5 – Michael Dee – Snapper (Morphettville race 7) After watching this ride it’s very easy to see why Mickey Dee has been offered a contract in Hong Kong, for his steer here on Snapper was a gem. Dee took him back off the gate and put him to sleep under the cover, then […]
From Aquis Beaudesert Saturday May 6th 2023, Race 6 Fillies & Mares Benchmark 62 Hdcp: Stewards today continued an adjourned inquiry into the circumstances surrounding apprentice Dan McGillivray, rider of DREAM ENTITY, being dislodged from that horse after clipping the heels of TOP BIRD (J Murphy) at the entrance to the home straight. On the […]
Many jockeys go a lifetime without ever riding four winners on a card. At the tender age of just 20, with less than a year’s professional race riding under her belt, Brooke Johnson did it at Bowen on the weekend. Oh, and from just 4 rides too. Strike rate 100%. It is an outstanding achievement, […]
I still can’t see it. Perhaps competitive riding is now a racing crime.
