Horse Racing

GOOGLE ‘Mark Currie horse trainer’ and the search results are dominated by headlines about him and his son Ben that don’t make very nice reading.…

DAIKI Chujo has a dream. It’s a heck of a dream, he knows, but when you look at what’s come true in his life so…

THERE’S a family growing at Ipswich racetrack – sisters and brothers of the turf – and much like siblings, these horse racing devotees seek leadership…

IT’S 65 days till the Ipswich Cup and our city’s own, jockey Jake Bayliss, is already diligently pursuing his goal of securing a coveted home-town…

HERE’S a tip: if you see Chris Whiteley down to ride one at the Gold Coast – get on; it’s a good chance he’ll be…

PATIENCE, knowledge, resilience, understanding, empathy – they’re some of the attributes you get – or hope to get – from working with horses. Corey Sutherland…

HORSE riders have countless euphemisms for it: ‘I ate dirt’, ‘My horse and I went our separate ways’, ‘I had an unscheduled dismount.’ There’s even…

COBI Vitler began his horse-riding life with no interest in horses but now he’s fully involved and totally determined to do all he can to…

BRANDON Lerena speaks so softly you have to strain to hear him, but then you realise he has a story you really need to know.…

WEIGHT can stop a train – so the racing adage goes – and it’s surely just as true that weight can stop a jockey’s career.…