Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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.
They tell me that former jockey turned child murderer turned convict turned trackwork rider again Jason Piper died a couple of weeks ago in Redcliffe. In was an aneurism I am told, or something similar, and the end came quick. I am very sorry to hear that. Piper was only 40, which is far too […]
I want to tell you a story, a true one. In 1999 I took a job as a union organiser in Central Queensland. It was a step up the career ladder for me, and a foot in the door, so when I was offered it I grabbed it with both hands and off we – […]
For the past couple of years now there has been a shortage of jockeys in regional Queensland. There were never a lot ever, but the country and provincial tracks north of the Sunshine Coast only used to race once a week, so there didn’t really need to be. Supply and demand principles worked: there were […]
James McDonald is a champion jockey, we all know that. Like all of he has his flaws off the racetrack, but they are not major, and they are not fatal. The young Malaysian jockey in New Zealand Yong Chew’s throat cancer might well be, all though we all hope not. Bloody hell, the poor kid […]
