Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The quest for the wagering dollar never stops. On Friday morning the body of popular jockey young lost jockey Chris Caserta was found in the Gold Coast surf. Just hours later the first race at Ipswich jumped, a field full of maiden gallopers ridden by grieving riders the same age or younger as their friend […]
The feature piece on apprentice rider Alisha Ross that you see in the photo at the top is published in the December edition of Race Magazine, the Racing Queensland publication that we old timers used to know as the calendar. There is a slight problem with the timing. Two months ago at the start of […]
Can you imagine losing your son to the sea, and being thousands of miles away while they are searching for his body? Of course you can’t, and you never want to. No-one does. It’s impossible to imagine it, until it happens. Due to COVID restrictions Chris Caserta’s parents can’t get over the border to wait […]
What can you do but cry? The poor kid. He was only going for a swim on a warm night. I blame the Gold Coast Council. How many deaths now have there been at night on that beach? None of them from the local area. Those of us who lived around Brisbane and the Goldie […]
The claimant alleges that during the race the defendant rode negligently or contrary to the rules of racing that caused his horse to fall. It is our case that the manner in which you rode at this point in the race was dangerous to the extreme Lord Edward Faulkes QC, representing the applicant, now wheelchair […]
Koalas are protected species in NSW. So is jockey Tommy Berry. Berry breaches the whip rules at almost every meeting that he rides. In fact over the past month he has broken the rules on average 1.6 times at every race meeting he has ridden. He gets away with it with impunity, which means scot […]
You have got to be good to let a field go without telling the riders, and do it while one of them is not even on their horse. I’m not blaming Larry Lewis, the starter at Clermont who did it in the 3rd race yesterday afternoon. He’s just a race loving bloke who works at […]
Quite a few people have asked me why the veteran 50 something journeyman jockey Peter ‘Hammo’ Hamilton has been denied a license by the QRIC. The simple answer is that I don’t know, so I can’t tell you. Instead I will just present a couple of facts to you, and leave you to work it […]
Peter Hamilton IR0110-21 17 November 2021 Original decision Refusal of Application for Thoroughbred Jockey Licence Final outcome Original decision confirmed – Refusal of Application for Thoroughbred Jockey Licence
The Apprentices Cup was held at Gatton yesterday. This time honoured race is a big deal for the kids, who get to pit their skills against each other head to head in a race unencumbered by senior jockeys, in a battle against their peers. It’s a bit like your own child’s school graduation ceremony. It’s […]
