Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
"Bizarre!" A daring ride from Campbell Rawiller results in victory aboard Plympton 😲@BalfourRyan pic.twitter.com/LaUBuzT9hX — Racing.com (@Racing) April 18, 2022 Many pundits including the caller reckon that Campbell Rawiller’s ride on Plympton at Oakbank yesterday was bizarre. I totally disagree. The rail at Oakbank has been off forever when the track is wet, because the […]
Work this one out if you can. It’s Chief Steward Chadwick getting tough. At all race meetings apprentice jockeys must claim their full allowance or ride at their minimum weight. Must means shall, as in you shall do this and if you don’t you can’t. But there is a get out clause. If the apprentice […]
Shannyn Stephan’s a bush jockey in Queensland. She likes tattoos too. Yesterday Shannyn was riding at Nanango, up in Joh Bjelke-Peterson country, and had the mount on a maiden gelding who’s not much good named Billirubin in the last race. I don’t think Billi and Shannon like each other much. He threw her off behind […]
You don’t have to be Einstein to work it out do you? Queensland is running 11 race meetings next Saturday, all bar two – Gatton and Toowoomba – all at times too close and tracks too far away to allow jockeys to ride at more than one. NSW has 6 meetings. Victoria has 4. Western […]
The only thing that punters were talking about all week was the Queen Elizabeth Stakes This 2000m Group 1 classic was shaping as the race of the decade so far, and would and should have been too, if it wasn’t for just one thing. No it wasn’t the Heavy 10 track. It was how James […]
AR 132(7)(a)(ii) Limits on the use of a whip by a rider (7) Subject to the other requirements in this rule: (i) the whip must not be used in consecutive strides; (ii) the whip must not be used on more than 5 occasions except where there have only been minor infractions and the totality of […]
Late last week – in the wake of the much hush-hushed Nathan Day bribing the Starter to let him slip him a leadbag and the Clerk of the Scales to let him weigh in light scandal – the QLD Chief Steward (Thoroughbred) Mr Peter Chadwick laid down the law on overweight jockeys, and all power […]
Some like my mate Gold Coast Greg say that Queensland has a desperate shortage of jockeys. I say that there are far too many race meetings run on a Saturday to find enough jockeys for. We are both right at the same time. The solution is therefore many-fold. The scope of the problem is clearly […]
Some horses just love certain tracks. Luthers Luck loved Sandown, and won a million races there in the 1980’s. Zipping adored the god forsaken joint too. Chief De Beers and Doomben went hand in glove, and he couldn’t win anywhere else. Remember Mary’s not a name you’d usually put alongside those three top liners, but […]
Is there any jockey anywhere in Australia riding as well as James Orman is at the moment? This kid’s on fire. In the past month he has ridden an amazing 27 winners, including riding 7 doubles and 3 trebles. He did it again yesterday at Doomben, riding back to back winners in races 2 and […]
