Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Young rider Dan McGillivray went down at Beaudesert yesterday afternoon in race 6. He was airlifted to hospital. His colleagues were so worried about him that they elected not to ride after he fell, and the meeting was abandoned. Fortunately while McGillivray has suffered serious injuries he has survived relatively intact. This is like a […]
Eszter Jeles, another racing tragedy. Look out for each other riders, so others will look out for you. Jockeys are falling all over the place. Tragically some of them are dying. Others are walking into trees because they have lost their fine motor skills. It is ever jockey’s responsibility to ride safely, apprentices and all. […]
There have been just 5 jockey deaths in England since 1988, which is 5 too many. Each of the riders lost their lives over the up and downs, the jumps. In that 35 years there have been no jockeys die on the flat. A study conducted of flat races in Australia between August 2002 – […]
RV’s goal is to maximise safety for riders and horses and to minimise the occurrence of racing incidents, while acknowledging the inherent risks of the sport. The falls at three consecutive Saturday metropolitan meetings have been widely reported. Each incident is being reviewed thoroughly via a Stewards inquiry. The first inquiry saw two riders suspended […]
Racing Victoria have today issues a 2 page statement in response to widespread questions about the current racing program, and whether it causing rider fatigue and contributing to falls. You can read RV’s statement as published in the article above. The committee of the Geebung Polo Club met today to consider the statement. This is […]
just a week after the tragic crash that shouldn’t have happened that killed 4 horses and maimed a whole lot of kids, things are starting to look real bad for TasRacing, and after years of turning blind eyes to Ben Yole’s nefarious activities so they bloody should. I just hope that this prick doesn’t bring […]
The photos above and below are from the Townsville TAB meeting held on the 20th of January. See the thing I have circled in the picture at the top taken of race 4? It’s an ambulance. Every race held at every meeting around Australia is supposed to have one trailing the field, in case a […]
I wish them well, too, but there is a bigger issue at play here. While PP raises the issue of how long Miller and Crossland had been “working” on the day – it is plausible they had started work at 8:00 AM and the crash (I won’t call it an accident) occurred 18 hours later […]
The image you see is from Trial 1 at Townsville on Monday. Isn’t that just grand? A fatality waiting to happen. Safety in racing? Sorry, I can’t hear you. And here I was thinking that the GAP program was only for the greyhounds.
What you see at the top is the official Stewards report for race 5 at Emerald TAB meeting in Central QLD today. Not content with jockeys hitting horses with jiggers – or perhaps as punishment for it – now they are giving jolts and volts direct to the riders themselves. I’m not sure if anyone […]
