Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
