Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jim Byrne has a 6.5 win lead over Jaden Lloyd on the Queensland metro riders premiership ladder 10 weeks into the season, with Ryan Maloney one behind Lloyd and Jimmy Orman one behind him, but if I were any of those senior jockeys I would be afraid right now, very afraid. This teenage colt by […]
I was really enjoying my riding just before this happened and it was disappointing but I guess it is just how the game goes. They are just the cards you are dealt; you do not have any control of it and you just have to deal with it – Tegan Harrison Jockey Tegan Harrison has […]
Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Stewards concluded an inquiry into licensed Apprentice Jockey Ms Alisha Ross for providing an altered doctor’s clearance and giving false and misleading evidence to Stewards at the Townsville Turf Club on 1October and the Mackay Turf Club on 2 October 2021. After taking into consideration all the evidence tendered by […]
Jockey John Allen stood himself down from riding at Caulfield yesterday and went in to immediate self-isolation awaiting the result of a COVID test he took after becoming aware that he had without knowing visited a Tier 2 site in recent days. It is not Allen’s fault. Tier 2 sites are things like schools and […]
Alisha Ross being presented with the Tree of Knowledge Cup by Racing Minister Grace Grace out at Barcaldine Let’s hope the QRIC Internal Reviewer takes a leaf out of NSW book and takes a relook at the sentence handed down yesterday to apprentice jockey Alisha Ross, for without being critical of the Stewards it does […]
The word out of Tasmania is that some people believe that there are a cartel of Turkish jockeys working together to do some funny things on the race tracks of the Apple Island. The leader of the pack is said to be a handsome, smooth talking and suave senior hoop named Ismail Toker. Toker is […]
They are strange beasts these professional sports people. Leon Spinks beats Muhammed Ali in the upset of the century and has the world and hundreds of millions of dollars in prize purses at his feet. He hits the cocaine, stops training, loses the rematch, then loses it all. Prior to his death earlier this year […]
Big Philou’s nobbling in 1967 was the most controversial Caulfield Cup affair in history, but I wasn’t alive then. The greatest Caulfield Cup controversy in my lifetime occurred in 1998. An English galloper named Taufan’s Melody had made the trip across the oceans to have a crack at the Cups double, after having been invited […]
Tom Sherry’s appeal against his 4-month suspension for breaching the Racing NSW rules and policies in regard to COVID-19 related matters will be heard early this week, perhaps as early as today. It is our view that Tom Sherry has been treated very harshly and unfairly in the carriage of this matter, and in sentencing. […]
We have received the sad news that highly talented jockey in hiatus Michael Murphy’s father has recently passed away. Our sincere condolences go to Michael and his family at this difficult time. Peace.
