Weight worries for Blake Shinn? It must have been all that rich food on his recent international holiday with girlfriend Kathy O'Hara. He's relinquished two 53kg rides at Sat's Randwick meeting, on Sequinella in the Our Maizcay Handicap and Saturday Matinee in the Testa Rossa Handicap.Those new whip rules for jockeys look likely to create mayhem...Especially the one about not raising the arm above the shoulder. Lots of intelligent racing people reckon the new laws were ill-thought out and will i
Weight worries for Blake Shinn? It must have been all that rich food on his recent international holiday with girlfriend Kathy O'Hara. He's relinquished two 53kg rides at Sat's Randwick meeting, on Sequinella in the Our Maizcay Handicap and Saturday Matinee in the Testa Rossa Handicap.
Those new whip rules for jockeys look likely to create mayhem...Especially the one about not raising the arm above the shoulder. Lots of intelligent racing people reckon the new laws were ill-thought out and will inevitably change the face of racing in Australia. Punters should prepare themselves to lose money on horses that would have won under the old rules but miss out through lack of the persuader.