Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What the hell is this Brisbane Acting Chief Steward Daniel Aurisch doing while his boss Peter Chadwick is absent on leave of some sort or another? We all know or suspect that Aurisch is trying to angle for the top job when Chadwick announces his resignation in the future, but is trying to put your […]
Karl Zechner is a 34-year-old Zimbabwe born South African jockey who rode about 600 winners at home. He has ridden almost a 100 in Australia since moving here two years ago. Zechner outrode his claim more than a decade ago. Someone obviously forgot to tell Racing QLD and the TAB. They had him as a […]
This is the Steward’s replay of race 9 at Eagle Farm yesterday, the race in which the rider of the winner Adin Thomspson was charged with improper riding. Thompson is about 5th or 6th near the fence, in the yellow and blue colours. I think I must be going blind. No matter how hard I […]
The Stewards charging apprentice Adin Thompson with improper riding on Saturday after his maiden Group winner in the Pam O’Neill Stakes attracted everyone’s attention, but most folk missed the adjourned inquiry into Jaden Lloyd’s beaten ride in the tenth race, the one right after. It is the one we should all be really looking at. […]
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see.” Muhammed Ali If an Acting Chief Steward wants to lay down his credentials for a soon-looming job* by playing the tough guy, wouldn’t you think that he would try to get the wording of the charge 100% right before […]
The Brown Rice man teaches Brodie Loy to walk like a duck The last time I spoke to Ronald Johnson – the aka Brown Rice Man – was just last week. He was living in Toowoomba and about to make his way slowly up to Port Douglas via the inland route. Ronaldo wanted to camp […]
21-year-old apprentice jockey Emily Lang has been riding for just 2 days. Saturday at Nanango was day one. Emily rode a winner at her 3rd ever start. She rode two placings from her six rides too, giving her a strike rate of 16% the win and 50% the place. B-b-b-baby you hadn’t seen nothing yet. […]
Jockey James Baker felt ill when he arrived at the stalls on Champagne at Dawn for the 3rd race at Mackay on Thursday, so poorly that he advised the starter and asked to be inspected by the medical staff. They gave him a quick once over and passed him fit to ride, which is a […]
It’s hard not to feel sorry for Danny Nikolic. Being a mug judge of footy must be a very difficult thing, even for the most deluded of men. Matchsticks are the currency, because the poor bastard doesn’t have a cent. I write it up on the board as cash, to give him a glimmer of […]
Danny Nikolic told me a long time ago that Ryan Moore was the best jockey in the world. As recently as last month I disagreed with him, and told him so. Frankie Dettori was the best I reckoned, with J-Mac second. I was wrong about Frankie. Maybe he was the best a couple of years […]
