Jumps supporters are fighting back...Top jockey Steven Pateman reckons the fight for jumps racing's survival is not yet lost. He's urging supporters to attend a rally at Racing Victoria Limited's Epsom Road headquarters tomorrow morning. SP says: 'We won't be waving placards or wearing T-shirts...We will be a voice in numbers and we will be fighting for our sport and for what is right.' Jumps fans would have been dismayed by a biased ABC 7.30 Report broadcast on Monday. Most of it was taken up w

Jumps supporters are fighting back...Top jockey Steven Pateman reckons the fight for jumps racing's survival is not yet lost. He's urging supporters to attend a rally at Racing Victoria Limited's Epsom Road headquarters tomorrow morning. SP says: 'We won't be waving placards or wearing T-shirts...We will be a voice in numbers and we will be fighting for our sport and for what is right.' Jumps fans would have been dismayed by a biased ABC 7.30 Report broadcast on Monday. Most of it was taken up with the complaints of a teenage girl who didn't like jumps racing.

Claws trimmed...Trainer Greg Eurell is ready to axe a Stradbroke Handicap start for Apache Cat after the popular sprinter was given 60kg in next month's million-dollar showpiece handicap. Apache Cat heads the weights ahead of John O'Shea's Racing To Win (58.5kgs) with a 3kgs gap to Perth visitor Marasco on 55.5kgs.GE says: 'I thought he would have got 59kgs which would have caused us to sit down and have a really hard think about things but he just can't give a horse like Marasco a four and a half kilo head start and expect to beat him...It would be an extremely difficult exercise for him,'

Snowden warms up for Scone...Surround Stakes winner Portillo leads a classyraft of noms for the Listed $110,000 Dark Jewel Classic (1400m) at Scone on Friday...Portillo is one of four horses trainer Peter Snowden has nominated for the meeting. Snowden has Rio Osa fin the Dark Jewel and has Spinney nominated for the Listed $110,000 Emirates Park Scone Cup (1600m). His fourth rep is Latigo in th Yalumba.