Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Another great Irishman with a bit of Ernie in his name So what do you make of the Birdsville jigger inquiry? My view is this. Ric McMahon is lying like fuck, and then lying some more when he claims not to know what a jigger is, or how to use it. That’s bollocks. McMahon moved […]
Jockey Ric McMahon has delivered bombshell evidence in the first day of the Birdsville Cup jigger stewards’ inquiry, claiming trainer Todd Austin handed him the electrical device and told him to use it on a horse’s neck during track work. McMahon told the Doomben hearing that Austin handed him a jigger to use on one […]
If you ever had any doubts that James McDonald is the best rider in the world, then cast them aside and wash your mouth out with soap. The Longines world ranking spell it out clearly, so that every knocker or patriot across the world can understand. These ratings are devised from the results of the […]
The Stewards report into the Luke Tarrant fall at the Sunshine Coast last week has been finalised. It was no-one’s fault that Tarrant fell they found. And Shane Dye didn’t get Veandercross beaten in the ’92 Caulfield Cup either. Puhlease. The title says it all. You can read out earlier story about the fall at […]
There are rumours floating around all over town that jockey Michael Poy might be running a side hustle involving laundries and dirty cash. We are in no place to say whether or not these whispers are true, or to make comment on them at all. All that we can say is that if you rode […]
Without the benefit of a head on film we can’t be sure exactly what happened to cause the fall in the 4th at Caloundra on Sunday, but it appears to me that either Bubba Tilley or Taylor Marshall – or both – were at fault. Tilley, who was leading, appears to have drifted off the […]
The mail we have had out of the west of QLD is that Chief Steward on the day Kim Daley’s conduct toward a young jockey at the races in Chinchilla on Saturday was just not on. The incident we are referring to occurred after race 4, which resulted in Apprentice Sariah Champkin being reprimanded for […]
How many Saturdays in a century would a hoop go to a secondary provincial meeting and find themselves riding up against a Hong Kong Jockeys Premiership winner, a Brisbane Apprentice Jockeys Premiership winner, a dual Group 1 winner, a multiple Group 1 winner in South Africa, and Vo Rogue’s rider? Perhaps the young jocks who […]
There is a school of thought out there that believes that winning jockey Luke Nolen reprised his near horror show on Black Caviar at Royal Ascot by going to sleep on I Wish I Win between the 100m mark and 50m in the Golden Eagle yesterday. While he certainly didn’t blatantly sit up on the […]
There was a lot of debate during the week about apprentice Laura Lafferty being denied the chance to ride her parents horse in the Wakeful Stakes by the VRC, and I really felt for the kid and her family whose dreams got shattered. While there still remains some controversy about whether or not an earlier […]
