Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If you’d backed Miss Aria in the last at the Valley yesterday you would have torn up your ticket at the 600m mark. I know I did. Horses just don’t come from that far back over 1200m on the saucer and win. It just doesn’t happen. Or it didn’t until yesterday. What an amazing win, […]
Retired jockey James Winks was seen out earlier this week at the Breakfast Club in Prahran (pictured above) enjoying a convivial lunch with winning rider Ben Allen and others to celebrate Pinstriped’s stirring win in the Memsie. Perhaps it was a bit too convivial at that. Nothing good ever comes from getting on the turps […]
Don’t you just love the way the Victorian stewards are hearing evidence in the Jamie Kah running and handling inquiry? They talk to Kah. The premiership winning 14 time Group 1 winner and one time no 1 female jockey in the world says variously that she’s had an off day, that the horse is difficult […]
We see things through the eyes of the person who pays for racing. The punter. As such, we are usually hard on jockeys whose actions result in a horse finishing in a lower position in a race than it should, our stories yesterday about Jamie Kah’s ride in the McNeill being the perfect example. Some […]
Some are saying that Jamie Kah’s reluctance to push Let’sfacethemusic through a mile wide gasp in the McNeill Stakes was symptomatic of a recent trend of the star jockey being hesitant to place herself in a position of potential personal risk. I vehemently disagree. J. Kah is as brave as any jockey in the land. […]
Jamie Kah would have to have been kidding with her ride on Letsfacethemusic (yellow, pink sleeves, blue cap) in the McNeill Stakes wouldn’t she? You could have driven a semi trailer through the gap that presented to her in the middle in the straight. But I guess you’d have to want to. The Melbourne Stewards […]
See that smallish chap in the picture working behind the barriers at the Home Hill races yesterday? That’s jockey Scott Sheargold. He had three rides earlier in the meeting, then swapped out of silks and into civvies and took up duties as a barrier attendant for the rest of the day. Where else in the […]
A 4-year-old mare named Home Creek collapsed at the 500m mark in race 1 Aramac on Saturday. Two horses went over the top of her. The riders of the three fallen horses Tim Brummell, Anna Bakos-Schrapel and Robbie Faehr were all taken to hospital with injuries. T’was but for the Grace of God none of […]
Jockey Jason Hoopert doubles as a race day photographer, and presumably has a Racing Queensland issued media pass that allows him into the saddling enclosure to take pictures such as this. Given the comments that he has made that you can see under the picture at the top it should be immediately revoked. There is […]
Congratulations to Australian judo champion turned apprentice jockey Caine Stuart, who landed his first career win yesterday at Roma aboard Green Park. It was dashing front running ride by the kid too. Stuart showed poise, timing and balance well beyond what you’d expect from a youngster having just his 11th race ride, which suggests that […]
