Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Watch the horse on the inside in the red behind the leader. See what jockey John Rudd does? He sits up early. It costs his mount 4th place. Rudd copped a 14-day suspension. He was a bit stiff I reckon. Watch it again in slow motion. What the hell was that white post doing positioned […]
There was a protest 2nd v 1st in race 5 at Doomben yesterday. The 2nd horse was on the outside in the blue, red cap and white sleeves. It’s rider Dale Smith protested against the winner ridden by Kyle Wilson-Taylor, who is in the middle in the white with red hooped sleeves and white cap, […]
In one of the more bizarre matters to come before the Stewards this year, 20-year-old NSW apprentice jockey Holly Durnan has been suspended for 3 months after being found guilty of workplace harassment involving taking an offensive photograph of a fellow female rider in the jockeys room and sending the image to another racing participant. […]
There is no more exciting spectacle in racing that watching two champion jockeys at the peak of their powers going hammer and tong, head to head down the straight in a battle of wits and skill. Yesterday at Rosehill we had the pleasure of seeing it in the shape of Joao Moreira v James McDonald. […]
Further to our story yesterday about one M. Currie trained galloper setting a brutal speed in front that was perfect for it stablemate who came from behind and won, here is the official Stewards report as it relates to the matter. Depth Charge Began awkwardly. Stewards inquired into the tactics adopted on the gelding, specifically […]
As if Sariah Champkin didn’t have enough problems already, here’s another one. Champkin is a bankrupt. The QRIC have issues with licensing bankrupt jockeys, because of the perception that they may be vulnerable to copping slings to ride their mounts uncompetitively, or in other words to hook them. It is for that reason that riders […]
Dan McGillivray has one of the worst careless riding records of any current jockey in Queensland. It’s so bad that I’ve given up counting the number of suspensions that McGillivray has received, or the amount of time that he has spent on the sidelines through suspension. This is the bloke we wrote about 2 months […]
You shouldn’t laugh about dangerous racing incidents, but what were the odds of Jamie Kah being involved in a near-accident while attempting to take a needle eye split on the rails in the same week that she was outed for 3 weeks for not taking one up the middle? If yesterday’s interference that lead to […]
Stewards have issued an all points missing person bulletin for jockey Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day following his mysterious disappearance from the Ewan racecourse in North QLD yesterday without fulfilling an engagement. Day arrived on course at the track in the largely abandoned former tin mining town on the banks of the Stockyard Creek prior to weigh-in […]
Keep your eyes on apprentice Braith Nock in the lime and red silks and red cap, second from the outside, in this race at Hawkesbury last Saturday week. Watch what he does to the rider and horse on his outside, first with his knee and then with his elbow. Nock pleaded guilty to a charge […]
