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Interesting listening to McGrath and Lee on the Sunday Forum yesterday. It sounds like Jacob is quite brittle confidence wise and was in bits over the King George having sided with Al Ferof. I do vaguely recall some emotional issues in the past.
.It might have fallen had Jacob rode it.
Always find that line of thinking a bit strange, considering jockeys are individuals
" Oh, he’s missed a winning ride "Surely being approachable and communicative is a huge plus in this day and age.
Yes, but not really a substitute for ability though is it? His communication skills were not exactly shining through when he spent much of the evening munching on crisps during an online Festival Preview last year. Almost like a comedy turn.
Why should sports people be expected to be articulate. Didn’t Toby Balding say years ago that the best jockeys were ‘all legs and no brain’ [could be misquoting here; apologies if I am].
Surely being approachable and communicative is a huge plus in this day and age.
Makes life easy for the hacks if they can get a ready quote.
Ability comes first though. Being taciturn has proved no barrier to Ryan Moore.
Variety is the spice of life, it would be pretty boring if everyone behaved the same.
This is quite poor from Jacob if Nicholls is to be totally believed.
As the new stable jockey at one of the biggest yards in the country, surely your job is to shut up, get your head down, ride as well as you can and accept every ride given to you.
It is insanity to turn down a ride in a feature Cheltenham race because you feel the horse is "part of a different generation of Ditcheat".
Again, IF all of this is true, I think Jacob should be given his marching orders right away. He has ridden very well this season in my opinion, but this is extremely unprofessional.
My strong suspicion, TYF, is that jockeys ride what Nicholls tells them to ride rather than the other way around.Jacob would be riding BB if Nicholls and ownership team wanted him too, regardless of whether he fancied it or not.
There’s a lot of criticism around at the moment about Daryl Jacob and I believe its unjust,just as it was about Sam Thomas a few years ago.These guys are more than capable of delivering on an everyday basis and both can do just the same when the pressures on.Sam on Denman in the 2008 Gold cup breaking Kauto’s hold on the trophy was incredible as was Daryls ride on Diamond Harry in the 2010 Hennessey a horse he’d never ridden before so I’m not falling for all the Paul Nicholls Patter and Patter it is!
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In my opinion Daryl Jacob is a very good jockey. But to be the stable jockey of the Nichols yard you need to be an INCREDIBLE jockey. Sam has the potential to become that, Daryl doesn’t. If I were Paul I’d be doing whatever I could to gain the services of Sam as stable jockey, as like has been said in this thread befoe, AP and co won’t be around forever.
As said, just my opinion.
Personally I thought there wasn’t that much you could criticise about that ride today. The horse looked a bit short.
I think he and At Fishers Cross will fight out the finish at Cheltenham in the World Hurdle and I’d be with Big Buck’s there.
Personally I thought there wasn’t that much you could criticise about that ride today. The horse looked a bit short.
I think he and At Fishers Cross will fight out the finish at Cheltenham in the World Hurdle and I’d be with Big Buck’s there.
Sams getting a lot of stick for his ride on
Big bucks
on Twitter but I agree with you David he did nothing wrong in the circumstances. As for beating
At Fishers Cross
next time…………No chance! My fellow has been trained with one race in mind since he won the Albert Bartlett,he’s been blatantly unfit until todays race,anyone who looks at horses in the paddock could see that and he’ll come on again for it.’Bucksy’ wont improve a 1lb for todays run and is still the Lay of the festival imo.
I thought Big Buck’s ran a tremendous race after such a long lay off. I was surprised he ran so well. He travelled smoothly throughout and his hurdling was by and large spot on, and more importantly, he appeared to have lost none of his old zest. All in all, from the horse’s perspective, a very encouraging re-appearance.
However, I must disagree with Cormack. Sam Twiston Davies made the wrong tactical decision in my opinion, simply by allowing Big Buck’s to hit the front so far out – and considering the horse was not 100% race fit, he became a sitting target for the others.
I feel strongly that had he dropped Big Buck’s out the back, then he could have crept softly, softly until the last before picking them off quite easily on the run-in. As Mick Fitzgerald said, hopefully Sam will learn from this and ride him differently at Cheltenham.
For me, on the evidence of today’s run, Big Buck’s is still very much the one they all have to beat in the 2014 World Hurdle.
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I’m wondering whether Big Buck’s would have won, had STD held him a bit longer. In my opinion he quickened too far from the post but he ran a great race anyway after so long off the course.
It’s a huge pleasure to see him back on the track. In my opinion he’s still the one to beat in the World Hurdle.A strange time to suddenly change tactics. Leading so far out on a horse lacking race fitness. Add in the heavy ground and in my opinion this was a candidate for the worst ride of the season. Horse showed more than enough ability to suggest that ridden more conservatively the unbeaten run would have continued.
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