Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The last time we heard of Darwin jockey Raymond Vigar he was being sentenced to a 12 month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to four counts of offending against a woman, including two assaults that the judge said left the thug’s victim with extreme psychological issues. The judge found that the the jockey had no insight […]
For many years in racing the female riders were forced to change in the toilets, because tracks didn’t provide any facilities for the minority to do so in comfort and privacy. The wheel’s turned full circle in Queensland now since Pam O’Neill first broke through the glass ceiling and set the ball rolling. 25 of […]
We couldn’t find the points scoring rules and conditions for the Australian Women’s Drivers Championship held at Launceston yesterday published anywhere, so this article has been written based on the Australian Drivers Championship (ADC) rules published on the HRA website. Click to access aust-driving-champ-rules.pdf Under these rules Western Australia’s Deni Roberts (pictured) has won the […]
Someone attempted to scratch trainer Megan Purvis’s two runners at Townsville yesterday. They logged onto her RISA account and pulled the two horses out, and the scratchings were automatically processed. Fortunately someone spotted it and alerted Purvis, who immediately got on the phone to the Stewards to tell them that it wasn’t her, and that […]
Here is the list of current apprentice jockeys in Queensland. There is not a single boy on it. Oh how the racing world has changed, and how it will continue to change until the weight scale does. It’s a sign of times. All power to the girls. They should say prayers to Pam O’Neill every […]
Yesterday a feel good story about former QLD heavyweight apprentice jockey Nick Keal’s transition to the training ranks featured on the Racing QLD website. I bet the writer of the piece wished it hadn’t now. Within mere hours after the story was published, Keal was locked up in a watchhouse cell, where he spent an […]
What was Richie Bell thinking when he called Kate Gath little Katie during his call of the Nullarbor last night? Little Katie? What does that make all the women and men that she outdrove? Little Jacks, Cams and Juniors? Gimme a break. That sort of description is demeaning sexist crap that has no place in […]
Hey look, David Reynolds is back in court again. He’s landed the daily double. Archie I will tell you what the cowardly narcissist bastard has done. His day of madness and misbehavior started on Saturday when he kicked his jockey out of his car on the way back from the races, leaving Scott Sheargold stranded […]
It’s hard to imagine any better start to your professional race driving career than winning the first ever race that you drive in. Until you start to dream about winning your first two. 16yo Zara Fitzpatrick who we told you about a couple of days ago after she won at her first drive has done […]
I wonder how the Racing Minister feels about in the inherent sexism of the Innisfail Jockey Club’s tradies and ladies day? What’s a tradie and who’s a lady, and how do you vet a lady tradie so that they can get in free? Do they have to pull their dacks down to prove that they […]
