Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Yesterday trainer/jockey Cheryl Rogers – whose surname does not contain a D, regardless of what the official Stewards report says – applied to ride the horse that she owns and trains Prince Carlos a half kilo overweight, claiming that the Prince is better suited to senior riders due to its racing manners. With only apprentices […]
Apprentice jockey Jace McMurray is an absolute gun. In his first full season of riding the kid who is only 19 or 20 outrode his claim, and won each of the QLD provincial apprentice title and the Gold Coast junior and senior riders crowns. McMurray has the racing world at his feet. Bar for a […]
Disclaimer Let me preface what follows by making it clear that I am not a lawyer, and that this is not legal advice. It is merely an opinion proffered by someone with a verified IQ of 183 plus prior to suffering a stroke who pre-disability – or spasticity as Wil Hulbert would call it – […]
See who bought this yearling at the Magic Millions sale? Rachel Shred. Isn’t she a jockey? I didn’t think jockeys were allowed to own thoroughbred racehorses. In fact I am sure they are not. The rules say they must be disqualified for a minimum of 2 years if they do. AR 116 Jockeys and apprentice […]
There are two main takeaways from the James McDonald whip appeal decision earlier this week. One is that his lawyer Wayne Pasterfield (pictured above) is a genius. How he was able to convince the Appeals Panel to reduce J-Mac’s suspension to six days – effectively a 2 meeting suspension given that Sydney’s top jockey tends […]
The case of owner Justin Strout’s appeal against a decision of the Victorian Stewards to subject his horse Imminance to the balloting conditions for the final of the $150 000 Grand Handicap Series Final at Champions Day is an interesting one, in more ways that one. Imminance had competed in and won a Heat of […]
The inconsequential error by the Racing Appeals Panel (RAP) wasn’t the only thing interesting about this week’s decision on the Joshua Morrow appeal by RAP-190. The error of magnitude in the original Stewards penalty that it exposed was interesting too, if only for its illustration of the fallibility of our integrity officials and the need […]
While the cats were all away watching the Cup week races, the mice came out to play at the Redcliffe trots. The mice in this case being crafty Peter Greig and his group of punters, who pulled off the most daring plunge all week, with virtually no-one noticing except the bleeding bookies. The Real Vanessa […]
Paul Tonkin (no relation to Clayton Tonkin) and Lindsay Rogers are Victorian harness trainers. Both men suffer from chronic pain from incurable back injuries, and each takes a heavy duty medication called Tapentadol to help alleviate the pain that they endure from dawn to dusk and all the time in between. Tonkin and Rogers each […]
Jim Murdoch KC is not a quitter, even when handicapped by a cold, which the Magic Man sounds like he might be at the moment. He regroups, changes track, and tries again. Murdoch can’t remember the Price matter. That is because he didn’t write Price’s submissions, we did. It was a shy at the stumps, […]
