Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Do you reckon this race was a fix? It’s the 2nd at the Valley, and Ben Melham rides the winner. I don’t. But a couple of well connected readers say that it was a welcome back Benny benefit, a charity event put on by a few jockeys to show their colleague that they think he […]
Jaden Lloyd is one hell of a jockey, an absolute gun. But his little brother Zac is just as good. The kid proved it yesterday in the last at Ipswich. Little Lloyd was riding an outsider in a five horse field. His rivals were the multiple Group 1 and Sydney premiership winner Larry Cassidy, gun […]
We have had a couple of calls since we put up the story about Jaden Lloyd being allowed to claim 2 kilos off Hatchet’s weight when he replaced the over weight Ryan Maloney at the last minute in the $127 500 QTIS 3YO Handicap at Caloundra on Saturday, and most of them are saying that […]
The rule that is printed at the top of this page relates to the replacement of riders at race meetings, in situations where for whatever reason one jockey cannot meet their declared commitment to take the mount, and another jockey must ride it instead. The words in the rule are simple and clear – another […]
