Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
How good a rider is this Angela Jones kid? The Wiz. She is only 20 years old, has been riding for less than 2 years, has had only 448 rides, and already she has ridden a hundred winners. That’s freakish for an apprentice. What’s even more remarkable is that the Wiz kicks them home first […]
Ronald ‘RJ’ Johnson – the man I call Brown Rice – is the world’s leading weight stripper from lean frames. He just took almost 10 percent of the already incredibly lean jockey Ben Allen’s body weight off him in ten days and left him as strong as he was when the crash diet started, and […]
Eye See Things When questioned regarding his riding on the mare in the early and middle stages and in particular the reason why he elected to position his mount towards the outside rail along the backstraight, rider N Rawiller stated that his instructions were to ride Eye See Things in a prominent position, however no […]
