Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Poor Carly Frater. You can only imagine how she felt when she saw what she thought was the winning post, sat down and punched her mount out to victory, and then stood up triumphantly in the irons. Only to discover that it was a power pole, and that the real winning post was 50 metres […]
They should put a huge poster of Willie Pike riding Mrs America to a nose victory in the 7th at Ascot at the door of every apprentice school in Australia. Watch how he is in the irons. See how low he is in saddle. Look at how his body is almost horizontal. Stare in wonder […]
In descending order, the three worst judges of a horse’s chances in a race are: Jockeys Trainers Owners Owners usually love their horses too much to be proper judges of their chances. Trainers invest so much time, effort, blood, sweat, toil and tears into preparing their steeds that it is near impossible for them to […]
Ten years ago today Danny Nikolic rode Sistine Angel into 13th place in the Group 1 Empire Rose Classic, then known as the Myer Stakes. Nikolic’s regular mount was Mosheen, but he couldn’t make the three-year-old filly’s light weight of 49.5kg, so Craig Williams took the mount instead. Mosheen ran 6th. Five days later she […]
How about this for a ride by apprentice Stacey Metcalfe on the winner of the second race at Bordertown today? It might look easy, but it ain’t. That is great skill, brilliant actually. That’s how they rode them when Archer won the Cup.
There are only five riders declared for the Cloncurry meeting in regional Queensland tomorrow. The problem is that there are 7, 8 or 9 runners in each race. At present they are still starters, which would suggest that Racing QLD are being proactive and arranging a few jockeys to drive out to the middle of […]
The benefit of hindsight is a wonderful thing isn’t it? Apprentice Adin Thompson rides a great tactical race on the 20-1 rank outsider and almost pulls off a dashing win, getting nutted in only the very last couple of strides. The Stewards – none of whom have ever ridden a race in their lives – […]
Pending resolution of her internal review apprentice Alisha Ross has been granted a stay of the 8 month disqualification that she received for presenting an altered medical certificate to the North Queensland stewards prior to a recent race meeting, which is good news for the young rider. Of course some form of suspension is inevitable, […]
The QRIC has just posted full details of the reason that jockey Paul Randall had been disqualified for 18 months, and I have to say that what this senior rider did was despicable, and that he should he should have been warned off for life. The incident that lead to Randall’s disqualification occurred at the […]
