Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
NORTH Queensland jockey Scott Sheargold has been fined by stewards after pleading guilty to sending an inappropriate text message to a fellow racing participant. Former jockey Danny Adam, the father of the racing participant, Charlotte Adam, who received the inappropriate text message, said he is appalled by Sheargold’s actions. Charlotte, who is a regular strapper […]
Well it would be a damn good trick to run a night meeting or trials at Atherton, because the track doesn’t have any lights, and it’s pretty hard to see in the dark, even on a moonlit night. There weren’t any night time trials at Atherton on Saturday anyway. I was there, and the whole […]
What a shame it is that jockey Scott Sheargold did not make the trip to ride at the Atherton race meeting. I had travelled the hour there from my home at Frank Lodge specifically hoping to meet and interview him about a certain matter that is very topical in the tropical regions of racing right […]
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 […]
The Racing Post reported Thursday that Phoenix Thoroughbreds has been suspended from racing in Britain. The British Horseracing Authority told the Post the group’s racing accounts were frozen and the decision was made on the basis of finances rather than suitability. Despite a declaration last month that it would no longer race in Great Britain, Phoenix […]
I didn’t know that the NSW Chief Steward was a District Court judge, and I wasn’t aware that he was an expert on defamation law either. Which is no surprise, because he is not. Defamation is one of the most discrete areas of specialisation in the law, and no more than 2-3 percent of solicitors […]
