Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We have been supportive of the talented young apprentice Cody Collis, and have written a number of stories in his favour during his ongoing struggles with the Stewards and suspension, but enough is enough. The kid got suspended for whip use on the weekend. It was only one extra strike, but it was his 16th […]
Quick Verse is a beautifully bred 7-year-old mare who was sold for $140 000 at the 2015 Gold Coast Magic Millions sale and sent to David Hayes to train. Sadly she couldn’t go a yard, and after 5 flops the owners gave up and she was sold on an online auction to clients of Johnny Manzelmann’s […]
Tianni Chapman is just a young 3 kilo kid learning her trade riding at bush tracks and she has only had 40 rides so it is impossible to be too critical of her. But I bet this ride on Without Excuse at Bairnsdale today won’t be one that goes on her highlights reel at the […]
The NSW Stewards allowed four jockeys, including the rider of the winner Reegan Bayliss, to ride overweight. No explanation was given in the official report as to why. It is a disgrace that makes an absolute mockery of the whole idea of handicaps, and flies in the face of a century of custom and practice. […]
The word from the track is that controversial jockey Luke Tarrant’s appearance in the Toowoomba court yesterday resulted from him blowing a positive to drugs in a random roadside test after the Weetwood. They say the police searched his car after he blew plus, and found a quantity of drugs inside. It is a sad, […]
There were some very interesting names that appeared on the law list for the Magistrates Court in Toowoomba yesterday. Each of them are jockeys or former jockeys. Nick Keal. Paul Randell. Luke Tarrant. Tarrant? Hasn’t he been in enough trouble already? We don’t know why these chaps were in court, but post-Weetwood celebrations gone overboard […]
Young Queensland apprentice Cody Collis has been in more trouble for whip use in his short time in the saddle to date than Miley Cyrus has had boyfriends. Collis only returned to riding last Saturday from a 28 day suspension for excessive use of the whip, his 13th offence in his 9 month career as […]
This is the worst Steward’s decision in the world, and the dodgiest one too. A teenage kid claims more allowance on runners at a non-TAB meeting than he is entitled to, by mistake. The mistake is not his, it is the Stewards. The Chief Steward had issued an edict some time back decreeing that apprentices […]
This wise missive was sent in by a regular reader in response to our story about the Steward’s mistreatment of apprentice jockey Cody Collis Hello Archie Your article today articulates exactly what does happen in that and a lot of work places. The little vulnerable guy gets the arse kicking when really he is learning, […]
QLD Deputy Chief Steward Daniel Aurisch sucking up to Her Royal Horseness Zara Phillips. He’d be better off doing his leadership job by applying the rules properly and fairly instead Yesterday we told you the story about how last week the Bundaberg Stewards panel had wrongly assessed and approved apprentice jockey Cody Collis’ allowance as […]
