2.45 Market Rasen extraordinary

If Dan Skelton was riding any horse there should be a stewards enquiry,surely weighing in about 2 stone overweight.

phil walker wrote:

I didn’t think I’d see a ride worse than Dan Skelton on Two Taffs yesterday at Sandown, however the ride by Finian o’Toole aboard Maxie T can be only be described as extraordinary or more bluntly a blatant non-trier. Paddy Brennan rode an excellent race on the winner Three of a Kind stealing the race on the final circuit but the jockey never put the favorite in the race and was never going to win. No doubt the connection of Maxie T will give some weak excuse as to what happened and the race will quietly be hushed up by the powers at be.

O’Toole is a 7 lbs claimer and made a mistake. Maxie T is a hold up horse and they might have expected Mountainside (who’d made the running last twice) would’ve carried Maxie T back to the all the way winner. May have also thought Three Of A kind/Brennen had gone off far too strongly. Judging pace isn’t easy for a 7 lb claimer. However, O’Toole made a similar mistake (to a lesser degree) on Maxie T two starts back at Wetherby on 12th Feb, not challenging until too late. It seems O’Toole has quite a bit to learn.