Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Australia’s oldest jockey Keith Ballard is retiring. So he should too after what happened in race 5 at Mt Isa on the 28th of last month. Ballard rode a Tanya Perry trained 3-year-old gelding named Invading Jilly in the race, and up to until 200 meters from home he rode it well too, popping in […]
We are advised that Bailey Wheeler suffered a dislocated shoulder when a Currie trained runner flipped over behind the barriers at Toowoomba and landed on him. That injury has kept him out for the past month. Wheeler is still apprenticed to Robert Heathcote last anyone heard, and he is back riding this week. Question answered. […]
What’s happened to the highly controversial and troubled but uber talented apprentice jockey Bailey Wheeler? He hasn’t had a ride for a month, not since the Weetwood meeting on the 28th of September. Last we heard publicly his apprenticeship had been transferred to Robert Heathcote as master, but Wheeler has disappeared from the trainer’s website […]
Queensland jockey Trudy Thornton narrowly missed being suspended for a month in the third race at the Sunshine Coast. Thornton stopped riding the runner-up out at the 50m mark and if she hadn’t had the good fortune of the horse hanging on to run second by a lip it would have been an unplanned holiday […]
While the eyes of the world were watching the big name riders go around at Randwick and Caulfield yesterday, lesser light jockeys around the nation were having big days out too. Justin Stanley takes the prize for most winners anywhere after he landed a fabulous five on the card at Rockhampton, and all of them […]
Andrew Rule is one person who certainly won’t be on Ben Melham and Jamie Kah’s Christmas card this year, after the pair blew up big time after reading a story about Kah penned by the award winning crime and racing writer that was published yesterday in the Sun Herald (see story below). Melham was the […]
When Jamie Kah hit Victoria, she seemed to be pure heroine. It was early 2019 and the best scorer out of Adelaide since the Chappell brothers packed her Range Rover and headed east. She stopped at Strathalbyn races and nailed two winners and a second from six rides, topping up her strike rate of one […]
We appreciate that we’re starting to sound like a broken record, but it’s not our fault it’s his. By he we mean Australia’s most suspended apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray, who was sent on yet another holiday by the Stewards at the Gold Coast yesterday. This time the persistent rules breaker wasn’t outed for careless riding […]
Supplementary Report: Kembla Grange – 10 August 2024 Race 3: Abax Contracting Super Maiden Handicap 1000m: Stewards concluded an inquiry into D. Yeo’s handling of Honey Perfume in the abovementioned race. Evidence was taken from D. Yeo and the filly’s trainer, Mr M. Smith. Stewards also considered a report into the wagering on the event […]
Queensland’s most suspended apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray got done again for careless riding yesterday at Doomben. He’d only been back from his most recent holiday for the same offence for 4 days. This bloke refuses to learn. I don’t know whether he is incapable of understanding the prime importance of riding safely to keep other […]
