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1-6 favourite in a handicap beaten after Pat Cosgrave eases down.
I know some people do not like jockeys being criticised – but come on! That is absolutely indefensible.
£24,000 matched at 1.01.
Well done to the person(s) who got £9 on the winner at 999.
Here is Cosgrave’s masterpiece:
He’ll only get like 28 days or so for trying to pull up before the finish line. Let’s see if Mrs. Roy decides to use him again in the future.
Even if he’d won, I’d still consider this cheating. There are still bets on the distances to be placed and a lot of people would rather go long with an 1/8 shot on the card. So, even a half length win under a hard pulling horse should catch the Stewards’ eyes. If they like to use them….
While I don’t think it reasonable to expect every winning jockey to ride their mount out to the line because there might be a winning distance market, I don’t think expecting them to ride their mount out to ensure they actually win the race is unreasonable.
I find it really hard to sympathise or excuse this woeful error of judgement.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"He kept looking to his right but not his left. He has eased down knowing he had the horses to his right covered but the winner rallied and mugged him.
Presumably connections are eyeing another handicap somewhere and he was trying to look after the horse’s mark – but it is indefensible no matter how you look at it. Did he really think the handicapper was going to be fooled anyway?
I do not particularly like seeing anyone get a lengthy ban but he has to receive the maximum.
I stick up for jockeys a lot but that is completely indefensible.
Tried to give it the charlie big potatoes and has only succeeded in looking like a complete mug.
Fair play to him for having the guts to face the cameras afterwards. It would have been better still if he had apologised to punters as well as the horse’s connections but I suppose emotions were running high.
Somehow the finish looks even worse in the close up.
This was a 1st tonight, never have I interviewed a jockey so crest fallen. Pat didn’t need to do this interview but he owned it, apologised and admitted his mistake. Fair play to him in light of a serious riding error which followed with a 28 day ban.
— Jess Stafford (@jess_stafford_) April 20, 2023
What makes this worse is that the horse was physically restrained a few strides before the line. If he had been allowed to gallop through the line he would have still won.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
28 day ban confirmed.
On a separate note, can anyone remember a horse going off 1-6 in a handicap before?
I know it was an uncompetitive race and handicap blips can happen – but everything in the race is supposed to have an equal chance in theory at least.
Well done to Ben Robinson for seeing Cosgrave was dozing and stealing the race off him , horrific ride …
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Paddy Power have paid out on Concorde as a winner, in singles and multiples.
OK, they did not have to do it. But would they have paid out if the horse had been 6/1 rather than 1/6?
CAS, Tweed trained by Willie Haggas was beaten at 2/13, 10 years ago in a handicap but I suspect there might have been “shorter” but no sp was returned due to betting tax.
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