Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Elione Chaves won six Swedish jockeys premierships. Karl Zechner once won the South African triple crown, becoming only the third jockey in history to do it. Yesterday the once distinguished riders were kicking around the back blocks of Ipswich. They won a race each, Chaves a maiden and Zechner a Class 2. It’s funny game […]
A number of my mates vouched opinions that I had interpreted Richard Callendar’s recent cryptic tip about a Melbourne jockey moving to Sydney incorrectly. I can now say that I did not. It was indeed Brett Prebble. Confession. I didn’t have a clue who Richie was talking about. I just worked out the riddle he […]
Are the Sydney stewards stupid or something? How could they possibly be sure that Nash Rawiller and Reece Jones didn’t use their mobile phones in the jockeys room unless they seized them and had them forensically examined? Anyone can delete their calls and then show the stipes a blank call list on their phone. It’s […]
There are reasons that once promising young apprentices like Jackson Murphy end up riding at third grade provincial meetings for the rest of their lives. One of them can be seen clearly in the replay of race 2 at Ballina yesterday. Watch the horse in the red and black that cuts back to inside at […]
My dad was good at cryptic crosswords. I was hopeless. But let me have a guess here. Brett Prebble? A prebble being almost a pebble, being almost a stone. I don’t know if I am right or not. But if I am I say just this. Prebble being one of the half dozen greatest jockeys […]
https://www.racingqueensland.com.au/racing/replays/tab-race-replays/stewards-player/thoroughbred/doom/20221214/race/2 Remember the story we wrote last week about how we thought jockey Ryan Wiggins would be getting a very long holiday for rolling in on top of one of the favorites in a race at Doomben and costing it all chance? The one where the Stewards let him off without even a reprimand? Well […]
Sydney racing is booming on the prize money side, and in almost every single way, bar one. It’s turned it into the hottest thing since molten lave, and I don’t know why. Sorry, yes I do. Greed, sheer greed. Greedy jockeys, fuelled by the desire for the drug money that is awash in the Sydney […]
For half a century until the emergence of James McDonald the genius George Moore was universally regarded as the greatest jockey that Australia had ever seen. Moore’s trademark was his ability to ride the rail, and display nerves of steel to push his mounts up the fence and find room there that no other jockey […]
The Victorian Stewards have this afternoon created a metropolitan racing precedent by taking race 5 at Flemington off one of the joint dead heat winners My Yankee Girl after determining that the mare’s rider Blake Shinn had breached the whip rules to such an extent that he had gained a decided unfair advantage over the […]
Apprentice jockey Megan Taylor has died, after a fall that has forced the abandonment of a race meeting at Ashburton. Taylor was aboard Red Orchid in race two over 1400m at the South Island racetrack, when the accident occurred, involving at least four other horses. Taylor was hit by another horse, as she lay on […]
