Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Which commission agent with a reputation for being more gabby than a fishmonger’s wife went seeking tips from trainers of runners in the Cairns Cup, only to be told by one that their horse was sore and the other that their bloods weren’t right? Is it true that the lippy one then relayed the tip […]
See that smallish chap in the picture working behind the barriers at the Home Hill races yesterday? That’s jockey Scott Sheargold. He had three rides earlier in the meeting, then swapped out of silks and into civvies and took up duties as a barrier attendant for the rest of the day. Where else in the […]
A 4-year-old mare named Home Creek collapsed at the 500m mark in race 1 Aramac on Saturday. Two horses went over the top of her. The riders of the three fallen horses Tim Brummell, Anna Bakos-Schrapel and Robbie Faehr were all taken to hospital with injuries. T’was but for the Grace of God none of […]
Jockey Jason Hoopert doubles as a race day photographer, and presumably has a Racing Queensland issued media pass that allows him into the saddling enclosure to take pictures such as this. Given the comments that he has made that you can see under the picture at the top it should be immediately revoked. There is […]
Apparently apprentice Isobel Jessop replaced fellow rider Savannah McCann aboard Boogielu in the 3rd race at Dingo yesterday, after McCann couldn’t make the weight to claim her full allowance. That’s what the Stewards report says anyway. If it were true young Ms Jessop would have become the first jockey in racing history to ride two […]
Clive from Cooroy phoned in to tell us that we missed something in our earlier story about karma coming back to haunt Tom Percy KC and prove him wrong. The horse that the high-powered barristers pony on Tuesday in the race that he claimed the apprentice rigged was Money For Old Rope. It came out […]
How’s this for an example of the two sides of Karma. The Chief Justice – the horse whose part-owner Tom Percy QC accused apprentice Kristo Sardelic of cheating to beat in a BM64 on Tuesday – dropped back to a BM50 at Broome today. It ran last. Two races later Kristo Sardelic – the most […]
Reigning New Zealand horse of the year Sharp N Smart kicks off his Spring Carnival campaign today when he returns to racing in the $150 000 Foxbridge Plate at Te Rapa. The multiple Group 1 winner hasn’t started since finishing a poor 9th at Ellerslie in March to finish off a disappointing summer campaign, his […]
Much has been made about the ride of WA bush jockey Kristo Sardelic in a race at Broome on Tuesday, after a part-owner of the beaten favorite accused the apprentice of riding crook. It’s a crock of crap in my view, one that would never have been entertained by the Stewards in the manner that […]
The members at Caulfield are up in arms about the relocation of the mounting yard, and are calling for a spill of the board over the issue. How ridiculous. Who other than the ego stroking owners keen to be filmed or photographed with their expensive thoroughbred buys, or the track touts that claim to be […]
