Lucy Tells It Like it Is – You Gotta Watch This
One for the ages @BrittTaylor12 honesty at its best pic.twitter.com/9afgbufEaP — Duj777 (@Duj7771) July 21, 2022
So Sick She Was Riding Trackwork at 4am Saturday Morning
Here you go, just like we told you. Except it’s not true. The kid wasn’t sick, her master just said she was. It’s not her fault, she didn’t do it. It’s the boss’s. The kid didn’t lie. They did. The Stipes can access records of who rode track work. I’d suggest that they do.
Greg Norman’s Stable Aren’t the Only Red Hot Masters Getting Booed
There are a number of owners and trainers out west who are somewhat concerned about the well-being of the talented young apprentice Sariah Champkin, who was down for a book of well-deserved good rides at Goodoowindi on Saturday, but was scratched by her master Tony Sears, who told them all that young Sariah was unwell, […]
The QLD Stewards Stake Their Claim For the Boss’s Job by Putting on a Tyson Fury Mask and Beating Up on Little Kids
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 […]
Gee Doesn’t That 2kg Claiming Apprentice Look Old?
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 […]
I’m Still Buggered if I Can See any Improper Riding
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 […]
No No No Jaden – Kid, You’re Way Too Young For This
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. […]
Why Have the QLD Stewards Charged Adin Thompson With Improver Riding? – Aren’t Apprentices Supposed to Improve?
“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 […]
Poor Bloody Brodie
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 […]
Emily Lang Kicks off Her Career With a Bang
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. […]