Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
(4) If a rider breaches subrule (3), the rider’s horse may be disqualified from that race unless that contact was justified by extraordinary circumstances. Does anyone remember this rule? They used to enforce it one, a long, long time ago. These days it is totally ignored. Jockeys come back to scale after a win and […]
A reader sent this to us in response to our story about Nathan Day being handed down a 9-month disqualification for reasons unknown It’s checked and correct. —————————————————————————- N Day provided money to Wally Welburn (clerk of the scales) and Trent Williams (racecourse manager) for unknown reasons, but noting that Wally has been well known […]
No Grubby, you’re a bit light. It’s nine not two. Word is filtering in that FIFO jockey Nathan Day, who lives in SEQ but rides predominantly in Central and North QLD, has been disqualified for 9 months. No-one seems to know why. The case is yet to be published on the QRIC website so we […]
Jeffrey Felix is at 49 years of age one of the oldest jockeys going around the QLD country racing circuit. It hasn’t slowed him down. There were six races at Cloncurry on Saturday. Jeff rode 5 winners and a second. It is the best performance of any jockey in Australia so far this year. Wow. […]
It is not often that you see the world’s best jockey James McDonald make a fatal error, but he did yesterday in the Newmarket. J-Mac’s tactics were to go straight to the lead and stay there, way and bully his opposition from the front and crush them into the ground just like he did in […]
They pay down to tenth place in NSW thoroughbred racing. You get $500. Calmer Karma finished eighth. The five hundred was in the bag. Or would have been if the lead had stayed there. Look where it fell out. It’s hard to earn half a ton in this tough guys town isn’t it?
A horse named Big Arjay was the medium of a sensational plunge in the 3rd race at Cowra on Monday. He was backed from $14 into $3.30, which is a decent go in any person’s language. Big Arjay was beaten into 2nd place after being seemingly stuck on the fence behind the leaders with nowhere […]
Last week I bagged out my old mate jockey Michael Murphy, and declared that he had used up all his chances. How wrong can an old racing writer be? In my case, very. This is Mickey Murphy in the picture, volunteering at Albion Park to clean up after the floods. Michael has no stake in […]
The integrity of Queensland racing has been questionable for a long time. Strange decisions are being made by Stewards. Swabs are rarer than a Penny Black stamp. Even stranger things are being ignored. Just when you thought the huge concerns couldn’t become any deeper, yesterday at the Sunshine Coast they did. Watch the replay […]
Comeback jockey Michael Murphy has been given a million chances by just about everybody in racing. After yesterday I have come to the conclusion that he doesn’t deserve any. Murphy was riding the horse in the white colours behind the leader in the 6th at Rockhampton yesterday. A gap opened up between the two horses […]
