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Given the type of racing we’ve had today … ie., big fields and competitive handicaps … you will find 2 or 3 examples, minimum, of hard luck stories for each race … Hanagan on Barefoot Lady quite within his rights to not let Spencer out when he was looking for the gap … watch Richard Hughes on Cumulus Nimbus in the Newbury 3.05 … galloped halfway around Berkshire before switching wide and making late progress … and I’m sure there were lots of others.
I backed two horses in the 2:45 Ayr.
Main bet Rimth with a saver on Ragsah. Both could not get through. Just one of those things. Easy to blame Spencer, but could’ve easily opened up for him. Looking at the race, looked as if there was pace but didn’t materialise.Value Is Everything"Gingertipster
18 Sep 2010, 22:45
by Gingertipster on 18 Sep 2010, 22:45I backed two horses in the 2:45 Ayr.
Main bet Rimth with a saver on Ragsah. Both could not get through. Just one of those things. Easy to blame Spencer, but could’ve easily opened up for him. Looking at the race, looked as if there was pace but didn’t materialise."yer, could of, but didnt. story of jamie spencers life. the guys a tossor. end of.
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It is very easy to blame Jamie Spencer because of the way he rides the majority of his horses. In this particular race Paul Hanagan was as responcible as Spencer himslelf.
He’s not the daftest jockey in the world and he knew like everyone JS was on the most likely winer of the race. What happened in reality JS found himself between the rails and Paul Hanagan who no doubt was thinking "Your going knowhere."
When a gap did appear Jamie went the only place he could go and the door shut as quick as it opened.
I’d tend to forgive him for that because he never had a whole lot of choice in the matter.
However in the Ayr Gold Cup he rode an abysmal race on Tiddlywiinks. It was very similar to Frankies ride on Redford but with 2 massive differences.
Tiddlewinks was cruising and I mean cruising behind a wall of horses. The first and biggest mistake Jamie made was fail to notice the other group on the opposite side of the course were well ahead. If he had done then he could have easily moved closer to the leaders before all the arm flapping and dashing about started and would have had a damn site more chance of finding a way through the remaining horses in front of him.
He could have and should have moved closer to the leaders and also been looking for a possible pathe through from well before the 2 furlong marker.
He set of and finsihed hard on the bridle and it was the most pathetic piece of jockeyship I’ve seen in a very long time.
Thankfully I never backed him but if I had I would have been livid.
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