They Are the Champions – Of the Queensland Country World
It was all happening at Tambo on the weekend – a lavish luncheon provided by the local ICPA branch for Ladies Day at the races, and the Country Queensland Premiership winners being finalised both on the track there and further north at Corfield. Both country jockey and trainer premierships went down to the wire, with […]
Jamie Mott is a Dirty Cheat – And What’s Going on With the Stewards?
Want to know why the favorite Pereille got beaten in the last at the Valley yesterday? It wasn’t due to the track bias, or because of Blake Shinn’s ride either. Like you I blamed both, and was cursing each of them too. But we were both wrong. When I watched the replay I noticed something, […]
Tyler Leslight Creates World History – This Kid is My Hero – He Should Be Yours Too
Tyler Leslight has the most amazing back story ever. They will write books and make movies about him, The kid was kicked out of home at just 14, all because he told his folks that he was a boy not a girl. It’s sad, and its bad, and it resulted in him hitting the streets […]
Half a Furlong in Front of the Rest
Willie Pike has won the Perth jockey’s premiership on his ear, sitting 54 and 1/2 wins above his nearest rival Chris Parnham with only two meetings left to go. The even more extraordinary thing than his number of wins is his strike rate. Pike is riding winners at a rate of better than 1 in […]
What the Hell is This Barrier Attendant Doing? – Bashing a Horse, That’s What – That’s a Callow Act
“I’m semi-retired, life is good up here, ride the picnics on a Saturday for wages to pay for the Grey Goose, keep active, drive an Uber a couple of days a week and work at the track from 7am to 1pm three days a week, I’m behind the barriers tomorrow, 12 trials on the Poly,” […]
This was an issue I was discussing with a high-placed racing identity just the other day, and I agree with Noel Callow in the main. During my discussion with the identity I gave the example of a great young kid from up this way who left home in his mid-teens to move to the big […]
Tyler Leslight is About to Create History – The Kid is a Champion From Head to Toe
In the early 1900’s an orphan from Western Australia named Wilhemena Smith, who had been born a man in a women’s body, travelled across the Nullarbor to Far North QLD where I live and became a jockey named Billy Smith. Billy was the first – and until a year or two ago the only – […]
Angela Jones, You are the Bomb – You Deserve Everything You’ve Earned, and More
A year ago Angela Jones, a kid from Charters Towers, had only ridden 3 times in the city, and had won just a single race in the big smoke. Jones was being talked in some circles as an emerging talent, but a lot of young riders have been over the years, only to disappear without […]
The Kid Rides a Winner at His First Ride – It’s the Happiest Day of Brodie Moffat’s Life – Good on Him – You Bloody Beauty!
How would you be? You’re a kid from Grafton who has moved up to the Sunshine Coast to chase your dream of being a pro jockey. Today you make the trek up to Gympie for your first ever ride in a race, and your dreams come true. Can you believe it? Young Brodie M0ffat must […]