Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
I strongly suspect that the revelations about the slings that he copped from the Butcher have a wee bit to do with the reasons that Tommy Berry has decided to take a month off riding. Apparently there are certain people who didn’t know about these slings, and when that person or persons asked to see […]
Watch this. It’s the 2nd in Brisbane today. You are looking at the leader ridden by Ryan Wiggins and what he does to the horse in the green. I reckon Wiggins might be off for an early holiday, don’t you?
The words you see above are those of Sharnee Berry, jockey Tommy’s wife. She’s spot on isn’t she? He’s not the smartest guy at all. It’s about to cost him his job for an extended period. Oh well, at least he should have plenty of free meat in the freezer to survive the lean drought.
