Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hugh Bowman was outed for 13 days for failing to ride Lost And Running out to the line. Bowman pleaded guilty. He had no real choice. The Stipes in Sydney don’t lay charges unless they are going to convict you on them, and fighting it would have cost him the discount for an early plea. […]
She hails from Snowy River, up by Kosciusko’s side, Where the hills are twice as steep and twice as rough, Where a horse’s hoofs strike firelight from the flint stones every stride, The girls that holds her own is good enough. And the Snowy River riders on the mountains make their home, Where the river […]
This Casey Bailey, a one-time contender for the title of 2020 Australian Rodeo Queen. Casey is from Wangaratta in Victoria, and likes rodeos and football, and does Equine Breaking-in and education services. I suspect that she may be partial to kung fu movies too, at least if what occurred at the Callaghan Racecourse, Rockhampton on […]
Only two races prior to getting pinched for whipping a horse nine times before the 100m mark, jockey Gary Geran had been suspended for 9 days for careless riding. Then an hour later he does this. “The horse was too calm in the prelim” jockey Geran told the Stipes, before adding that “he felt a […]
My suspicions were correct. It was the Brown Rice man behind the Nick Keal comeback. Checked and correct, horse’s mouth. RJ’s program has stripped 10kg off Keal’s already lean frame. The kid was 68kg just a month ago. Now he is 58kg. Ronald Johnson puts it all down to Keal and his discipline and determination. […]
Wow, it was only yesterday that we wrote a story about the former gun apprentice Nick Keal riding trackwork, and welcoming him back. Now we learn that on Saturday he’s returning to saddle in race riding. Nick’s got three mounts so far at Goondoowindi on Saturday afternoon, and with undeclared riders in the last two […]
Queensland’s veritable Chief Steward Mr Peter Chadwick issues this directive to all members of the racing industry just six months ago. It makes a lot of sense. Horses should be ridden at their handicapped weights. If they are not, then what’s the point of the whole thing? Chief Steward Chadwick’s directive is plain and clear. […]
Nick Keal was a really good young apprentice who rode 135 winners and earned stakes money of almost $2.5 million during his short four year career that his rising weight ended. It’s the curse of the tall kid, one that only all day, every day hyper focused jockeys like Jim Orman and Nash Rawiller can […]
Last week we told you the story about jockey Ian French and his comeback to riding after almost a decade off the scene. We told you he was the world’s oldest apprentice, only because Racing QLD said it was so. Apparently he’s not. The QRIC tells us now that jockey French was incorrectly listed as […]
If at the age of forty-seven Ian French isn’t the oldest two kilo claiming apprentice in the world, then I don’t know who is. French hasn’t being legged up into the saddle to ride in a professional race for eight and a half years, the last time we saw him in action being at Mitchell […]
