Sad to see the great Brian Mayfield-Smith decide to give up training because of a cash-flow problem...The big question for racing is how many other trainers are in the same leaky boat? Word around the traps is that a host of trainers are living on bank overdrafts and are, literally, eating the paint off the walls.Maybe they can ask some of the top apprentices for a looan? Ex-jockey and now gun trainer Kevin Moses reckons the apprentices have too much money these days. Some, he says, are raking i
Sad to see the great Brian Mayfield-Smith decide to give up training because of a cash-flow problem...The big question for racing is how many other trainers are in the same leaky boat? Word around the traps is that a host of trainers are living on bank overdrafts and are, literally, eating the paint off the walls.
Maybe they can ask some of the top apprentices for a looan? Ex-jockey and now gun trainer Kevin Moses reckons the apprentices have too much money these days. Some, he says, are raking in $2,500 a week. Moses is the master of Jamie Quinnell, just busted for testing positive to a prohibited substance. KM says: 'When we were apprentices we never got our money until we came out of our time at 21...These days they get paid and can be given as much as $5000 a fortnight.'
Gold-edged...Damien Oliver is booked to ride Melbourne galloper Gold Salute in the Grp 1 Railway Stakes 1600m at Ascot. He's also been offered the ride on Gold Salute in the Hong Kong Mile in December but this depends on whether the HKJC invites the horse to compete.