Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Some people claim that jockeys are stupid, but I have never believed them. When you meet and get to know good people like Jimmy Orman, Laura Cheshire, Dale Missen, Ian Toward, Russell Maddocks, Whopper Stephens, Lyle Plumb Snr (my dead heat with Doc Chapman for favourite seniors gold card holder in racing, for very different […]
A few years back I started writing about a Queensland racing identity named Wayne Innes. Innes was a popular figure at the track, a racehorse owner, sponsor, corporate Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) member, a regular in the exclusive Chairman’s room, and the best friend of his personal racehorse trainer Kelly Schweida. But there was something […]
Ben Currie and John O’Shea were convicted of the identical offence of presenting a horse to race when it had traces of the prohibited substance Methamphetamine in its system. O’Shea’s horse also had amphetamine in its system. Currie’s did not. O’Shea had two previous convictions for dishonesty to Stewards on his record at the time […]
Michael Bryant is best known as the equine chiropractor – known in the fame a muscle man – who worked with Peter Moody Mark 1 and tended to Black Caviar throughout most of her career. More recently he has been working with Sunshine Coast trainers like Dick Vandke and continuing the golden run of success […]
