HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED WHO TAKES TO HER FACEBOOK PAGE!
As many know by now, a certain Singapore-based Aussie jockey’s wife has returned to Oz from Singapore and immediately got onto her Facebook page to have a little rant. Well, not so little and which is why none of us have a Facebook page nor ever go on Facebook which really is a vanity showcase for ego and, it appears, women “scorned.”
The missus or the former missus of this jockey who is slaying them in Singapore, let fly on Facebook about her ex-jockey husband’s supposed nights out with Singapore’s sultry Sarong Party Girls and ladies of the night, and, supposedly, carving up dosh and making plans with illegal bookies and doing other naughty stuff.
With copyright and libel laws covering everything on cyberspace- blogs, Facebook, YouTube etc- not governed by any country laws and only “privacy laws” created by the online medium, it’s a free-for-all out there- and which we know all-too-well-about.
Getting back to the angry ex-missus, will there be more Facebook follow-ups from her? We’re tipping there will be. Many.
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WHO NEEDS FACEBOOK WHEN ONE CAN GO WHINGING TO THE NEWSPAPERS?
Seriously, it’s getting outta hand and it was good to see the HKJC’s Chief Stipe Kim “Eliot Ness” express his displeasure/disappointment/anger/frustration at the ugly public verbal sparring match trainer Tony Millard who spat the dummy and pointed his finger at jockey Douglas Whyte after Hong Kong’s Horse Of The Year, Ambitious Dragon, came fourth in the BMW Champions Mile on Sunday. Whyte won on points and facts and not Millard’s Blame Game and pixie dust ramblings.
Not to take sides- and we shall- but The Durban Turban conducted himself like the professional that he is. He simply offered the facts after being told of Millard’s rant. And it was a bloody rant as “riding to instructions” in a race where there are 13 other runners and riders and trainers, all with their own “riding instructions” is easier said that done.
We’ve been around a racecourse or two long enough to know that all those “instructions” a jockey receives prior to a race and while in the paddock and all those days of talking about how to best ride the horse goes out the window when the barriers open and all the best-laid plans blow up in everyone’s faces.
This is when a jockey has to take the bullshit by the horns and the horse by the reins and make their own decisions. The trainer standing there in the peanut gallery with all the armchair critics around him are bit players in a game where they are not competing. We and many others who are top class riders have viewed the race in question and think that Tony “Millie” Millard is being a whinging ninny and should take his hot pants and go take some knitting lessons with all the other old women, have a cuppa chamomile, chill out and stop being a prima donna and nitwit.
From what we hear, it’s not going down well with the Owner of the horse- and a real gentleman in Johnson Lam who has been in the racing game for decades and is no fool. If we were “Millie” Millard, we’d be nervously wondering what Mr. Lam thinks of all this bickering and which also happened- and then for good reason- with HIS horse and when jockey Maxime Guyon absolutely slaughtered it. If anything, with Millard and his team, Douglas Whyte nursed it back to its very best.
On Sunday, and after the terrible decision to race the horse in Dubai, Ambitious Dragon was severely interfered with by Kevin Shea’s mount, with the jockey copping a suspension for this mistake. Whyte had to make all the luck he could. Kim Kelly hits it on the head when he says that “Millie” Millard- and a few weeks earlier, David “Darth Vader” Ferraris who criticized Tye Angland for his ill-judged ride on Liberator- and he was vindicated for what he said when the horse pissed in at its next start- should not take their spats and go running to the media.
“It’s not the right forum” said Kelly and he’s right: If these trainers have some bone to pick with any rides or wish to pick their noses in disgust, well, that’s when they should inflict the pain for their losses to the Stewards. Like Las Vegas, there should be some unwritten law where what happens in a racecourse should stay at the racecourse. We wonder if “Millie”, who refuses to speak or be interviewed by even the HKJC’s very own “Racing To Win” programme, took to his Facebook page and even became a tweet.
Playing The Blame Game and mouthing off in the heat of the moment makes them look like right knobs and where, when anything goes wrong, it’s always the fault of someone else- especially the jockey. Easy to say and do, but trainers being armchair critics and public ninnies is not good for the sport. This is why we have all the time in the world for John Size, a trainer and great horseman who takes the good with the bad and always cops any blame for things not going according to plan on his chin- and which is not a glass one.
Tony Millard? We had time for Millard and, especially, his team, which constantly turns out their horses looking brilliant. But after reading the trainer’s off-beam Blame Game whinging, he’s deleted from our books and has shown his true colours: Very dark ones and which makes “Darth” look positively flowery and as bright as sunshine. 13
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KNACKERED AND FEELING NO PAINE
We hear that jockey Neil Paine had a Group 1 cheering squad at Mudgee on Sunday made up of “The Gnasher” Rawiller and Hughie Bowman. After riding a winner, the Group 1 cheering squad yelled at “Knackers” to throw his goggles into the crowd, something they do whenever they win Group 1 races. “I can’t! It’s me only fucking pair!” yelled back “Knackers.”
When “Knackers” startled even himself by riding his second winner for the day, the Group 1 cheering squad started a chant of “Knack- ers! Knack-ers!” and, for just a few minutes, “Knackers” was enveloped in his 15 minutes of fame and told us that he felt like his favourite French jockey, “Oliver Pissler.” He then spoke to us in fluent French or it could have been Swahili and disappeared.
Wait, there’s more: “Knackers” 15 minutes of fame continued the next day when, we hear, that Lady Gaigai broke with formality and tradition at some kinda Punters Luncheon hosted by hubby Robbie. How? Being the somewhat loveable Mad Hatter that she is, the great Lady Gaigai, probably tired of the endless poems being read out, called on “Knackers” to come onstage and- gawd no- perform his unique and totally tuneless accapella version of “Boney Marony.”
There was not a dry seat in the house
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EVERYONE WANTS A BITE OF THE BIG MAC!
We hear that John O’Shea aka “The Knuckle Dragger” had wanted to secure the kid’s services- full-time. And why not? “The Knuckle Dragger” has taken him under his massive knuckle dragging wings and put him up on numerous recent winners.
After his brilliant ride on Xtension in Hong Kong to win the Group 1 BMW Champions Mile, “Jungle John” Moore must be champing at the bit to take 20-year-old James McDonald under HIS wing and pith helmet. But for those who think the Big Mac is all bun and no brains, think again.
From what we hear, the extremely talented young rider is in no hurry and has his feet planted firmly on the ground and is not prepared to leave his farm in New Zealand. Not yet. He has all the time in the world to be another Douglas Whyte or even another Frankie Dettori and he’s not going to blow his load so early and quickly that he becomes another Steve Cauthen, one of our favourite jockeys and people who was also a wunderkind, but with everything happening way too quickly for him.
This we respect in James McDonald. Right now, he’s on top of the world and can do no wrong. After this upcoming weekend’s races, he could be notching up another big winner in a big race in Oz. But, it’s good to know that he’s taking everything in stride and not letting fleeting fame go to his head too quickly. Like in “The House Of The Rising Sun”, it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy. Oh, gawd, no, Painey! That’s not a cue for you to start singing the only other song you know while balancing a glass full of water on your head.
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WHY TALL, GORGEOUS WOMEN LOVE JOCKEYS.
This blog might shed some light on this subject.
Similarly, there are men who find female jockeys to be VERY sexy!
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MADAM ZAZU’S PREDICTIONS FOR THE RACES TODAY.
After a few boring weeks without him, I see a Grand Elite-type of Zac Attack being launched like a rocket up a few bums in Races 2, 3 and 4 and, perhaps even Races 1 and 8.
I love nibbling on a Zac Attack. Don’t you? My friend, Daphne, also a fortune teller by night and bank teller by day, sees her girlfriend Nicole enjoying nibbling on her very own Zac Attack.
We don’t call her Naughty Nicole for nothing.
Meanwhile, Alvin “The Chipmunk” Ng might be seeing stars, but I keep seeing a blur whenever I see him in my crystal balls. I have lotsa balls.
In this race, a very bold mover might rush in and ruin the party for “The Chipmunk” and make him see stars in the process.
And perhaps most important of all, I see a number of French people at the races- men, women and a few trannies and grannies.
If you play your cards right, this Happy Wednesday could hold a few “voulez-vous coucher avec moi, c’est soi” surprises that will hurtle you into a very enjoyable Happy Thursday.
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