Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Two prominent young New Zealand harness racing identities have been found guilty of criminal charges relating to the assault of a young stablehand during NZ Cup week in 2021. The men cannot be named, but one is a previously disqualified trainer who has not been relicensed since their penalty expired, and the other a Group […]
A little bird tells me today’s a special occasion for Mrs. Pamela O’Neill. Pam’s a pioneer for women, and a giant among men. I’m honored to call her my friend. Happy Birthday Pammy. Only seven more to go to catch Bradman.
We told you last month about a trainer having been stood down for inappropriately touching a young female jockey as she was being legged up aboard the horse she was riding for him at a country QLD meeting. Inappropriate is not actually the right word to describe the trainer’s outrageous actions – it was an […]
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 […]
