Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What a sad post for me. The boots have been hung up due to a forced retirement through injury. After the last accident at Grafton at the end of March, when a horse reared over and landed on me inside the starting gates, my body has just decided it isn’t wanting to play the game […]
Now whip itInto shapeShape it upGet straightGo forwardMove aheadTry to detect itIt’s not too lateTo whip itInto shape My God. This jumpout is over just 530 metres. Watch the prick one from the outside in the yellow cap flog his horse. His name is Colin Lennon. He hits this horse 14 times, all before the […]
Everything about The Everest was great, bar two things. The inclusion of the utterly uncompetitive Joyful Fortune and Ingratiating was one. Neither horse was ever any chance of winning this race, and would never have made the field under normal terms and conditions, but the slot system gave them walk up entry at the expense […]
Queensland’s leading jockey James Orman went to Sydney yesterday for just one ride. He had three, but two of them were extreme outsiders who he had picked up the mounts on to pay the fare. The one he was really there for was Far Too Easy in the Kosciuszko. Orman rode it a treat too, […]
There is weird tendency in racing around the world to smash jockeys for using jiggers, and pretend that the trainers didn’t know. It happens everywhere, just like this one below Jockey Tomas Mejia receives 10-year suspension, $5,000 fine from stewards at New Jersey's Monmouth Park for possession of an electrical device in 7th race Sept. […]
Did you see race 6 at Randwick yesterday? The Stewards obviously didn’t. Watch Tommy Berry’s ride on the horse on the outside that ends up running second. It’s a longshot who is the stablemate of the heavily backed favourite and ultimate winner positioned directly on its inside. Do you reckon Berry rode this horse out […]
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 […]
