Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Its is race 9 at Mackay on Tuesday. Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day – who wouldn’t even be out there if he hadn’t got a stay of a nine month DQ for bribing a Clerk of the Scales at Rocky – is on the horse in the sort of Kingston Towny colours, the yellow with red, in […]
There is a real problem in the jockey ranks when you hold a TAB meeting with a maximum of 9 acceptors in any race on the card, and you can’t get enough hoops to ride the horses. That’s exactly what happened at Rockhampton on Saturday afternoon, when six of the horses on the six-race card […]
Murdoch KC and the Sunshine Band – his client Todd Austin and patrons – have been going after Mt Isa bookie Graham Saunders at the jigger inquiry, accusing him of funding Ric McMahon’s legal defence, with the obvious objective being to shift blame for the jigger use away from Austin and solely onto McMahon and […]
James McDonald is now officially the greatest jockey in the world, although we down under have known that for a long time. How many kids win a Group 1 race at the age of 16? How many even get a ride in a blue riband race at that age? Not many, if any. J-Mac did. […]
Well we were right a few years ago when we told before he had even ridden in a race that Zac Lloyd was the next Darren Beadman. How many teenage kids ride 4 winners from 6 at a Friday night metro meeting against J-Mac, Kerrin McEvoy, Tim Clark, Brenton Avdulla, Rachel King. Sam Clipperton, Chad […]
There are a lot of qualities that are required to be a top shelf Steward. Consistency is chief among them. If licensees aren’t treated equitably, and like punishments aren’t handed down for like offences, confidence in the system becomes eroded. Once that happens, integrity becomes a slippery slope, and all fall down. Cody Collis is […]
Which former promising Brisbane apprentice was recently thrown off a plane home from a race meeting after rolling onto the aircraft blind drunk and then proceeding to make a pig of himself in full view of every passenger on board? I’m not going to name the bloke, other than to say that if you cast […]
You can’t be too hard on young apprentices for making mistakes, and if you back $2.25 shots ridden by one it’s a case of punter beware, but gee didn’t young Angela Jones stuff this ride up on the favourite Tick Tock Queen in the 7th at Doomben yesterday? It was a comedy of errors, except […]
Jimmy Orman got married to Heidi and had kids. It was all he’d ever wanted. Other than to be a Group 1 winning jockey. A no-name race at Ipswich on a Friday afternoon isn’t usually a place you will find a man who this season will achieve the third leg of a treble of a […]
