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Owners can choose who they want to ride their horses. They pay enough for the privilege.
Firefox,
1) Daryll Holland is also a great jockey in my opinion – one of the best judges of pace there is.
2) Me and you could have won on Authorized – any jockey, professional or amateur would have won the Derby on him that day.
Mike
2) … any jockey, professional or amateur would have won the Derby on him that day.
Mike
I am not sure about that.
Richard Hills, Ted Durcan and Jamie Spencer would no doubt have found a way to elude the winner’s enclosure.
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This is disgraceful, as Munro is one of the finest riders this country has – and we are not exactly endowed with a vast array outstanding riders these days now that the British Racing School has created a factory of homogenised, media friendly automatons
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It is very strange, I agree Munro is one of the best about. I thought his ride for them on Brave Prospector in the betfair sprint at york was brilliant. They will find it extremely hard to replace him whether they realise it or not.
Hughes – Another shocking ride by a shocking jockey.
Holland – Would be my first choice to ride any of my horses.
And in terms of loyalty, I think that jockeys are one of the most disloyal bunch around. They will have no qualms about jumping off your horse if they get an offer of a better ride in that race.
I’m always amazed when Ruby Walsh jumps off a Nicholls animal to ride something else more fancied. I’m suprised PN allows it to TBH, surely in that particular job you could take the minor rough with the vast majority smooth.
Hughes needs his arse kicked for that ride.
Showboating should be pounced on and the jock punished.
As Mellish said if you are going to look around and through your legs then you have got to win or take maximum flak.
Colin
Hughes had never ridden the horse before, and looking at his strength in the market again, I imagine Channon told him beforehand that the horse is a good horse. Sadly it doesn;t look as though Hughes watched the video of his last run, if he had, then there is no way he would have ridden him for a turn of foot. Bad ride? Definitely, but I’d also speculate that he was lacking adequate instructions.
Munro and Holland imo are both top jocks, neither would put me off backing a horse, in fact if Holland is on a confirmed front runner at a big price I will always have a small e/w wager on it.
Hughes is another matter, I have never ridden a horse so I have no idea exactly how much you can see sitting on one and looking though your legs while traveling at speed, but why would you do it when you’ve got horse’s on both side’s of you? imo he was just showboating and has been made to look very foolish, will he learn? I doubt it
I appreciate the Mullins-only link, but still feel its a bit of a liberty.
Ruby is based in Ireland and as far as I know Mullins actually has 1st claim on him.
Well, their naivety may make them the losers eventually. But most of us learn that way.
Owners can choose who they want to ride their horses. They pay enough for the privilege.
Doesnt mean we have to like or respect them for it either. There are owners our there who are loyal to a fault to both trainers and jocks and then there are those cant stop blaming jockeys every time there nag is beaten.
The one thing that does bother me though is when a very small trainer or owner jocks off an unfashionable young jockey who has put a lot of time in to getting a horse going only to be ditched when an agent from one of the big guns comes knocking. You dont notice it much because it tends to happen mostly at the grass roots of national hunt racing.
SHL
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