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James Reveley is a terrific and very talented young jockey, and has a highly promising future. Posts like this are clearly infiltrated through people talking through their pockets.
I would like to know how James Reveley looked ‘out of his depth’ at Haydock. Diamond Harry jumped as well as he ever has and young James was equal to whatever Ruby asked of Kauto.
Some people clearly have an insular approach to the sport, unaware of anything that occurs beyond these shores.
James has established a strong link with a certain Guillaume Macaire in France and the pair recently celebrated back to back victories in the Gran Premio Merano.
He is right up there with the very best when it comes to presenting a horse to a fence, a prime example being his all the way victory aboard the late Endless Power in the Grand Sefton Chase three years ago when he was just nineteen years old.
His ride on Always Right in the Grimthorpe was another indication of his talent and versatility.
Only twenty-two, he will be in huge demand over the coming years.
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Couldn’t comment on his judgement of pace, though his propensity for holding up horses probably stems from his grandmother, Mary Reveley, a top Northern trainer who had most of her horses ridden this way.
Must admit, am not that keen on James as a rider since Rambling Minster showed improved form to win the Blue Square Gold Cup by racing more prominently. Yet afterwards, seemed always held up and seldom jumped or raced with the same enthusiasm. May be it was the trainer who told Master Reveley how to ride the horse.
Like others here, I’ve also noticed James doesn’t seem to adapt to the pace of a race as well as some. If riding a hold up horse who is a stayer at the trip; a jockey needs to get a prominent position (or even go to the front) sooner in a slowly run race, than he/she would in a strongly run affair. Otherwise he’s going to be outpaced in the sprint for home.
That’s not to say James Reveley isn’t capable of a good ride. I backed Diamond Harry in the Betfair and saw nothing wrong with the ride.
Value Is EverythingTwo fine rides in the Monteith Memorial and Borders National at Kelso this afternoon aboard the John Wade duo, Always Right and Eyre Square.
Perfectly placed in both races and a pleasure as always to watch him over a fence. Tactically aware and strong in the finish on Eyre Square.
Well done, James!
I think John Francome is a big fan of James Reveley, especially how he presents a horse to an obstacle. Maybe his judgement of pace is out but rather see my horse jump well and conserve energy than be going half a stride too quick and making a horlicks of its fences. Time will tell if he learns to judge pace better. He seems to be riding regular winners so trainers/owners obviously think he’s doing just fine.
If someone disputes how good a jockey is, watch the ride he gave Celian in the 3.20.
Terrific jockeyship!He was very poor on Cue To Cue but should undoubtedly have won on Crowning Jewel. No wonder they backed the McManus runner. Stewards should throw the book at him.
Mate you really have to learn how to read a race your comments on James Reavely are way out of order. James had AP well in his sights knowing he had plenty of horse under him. A definite hold up horse on 2 separate occasion he moved closer to the leader to get into a striking position and on 2 separate occasion the horse made bad blunder which lost him the ground he had gained.
The errors couldn’t have come at a worse time but that’s novice hurdling and no decent jockey is going to knock 10 bells out of a young horse who clearly had no chance of winning turning for home.
Crowning Jewel was was probably an unlucky loser as were you but unfortunate things happen in novice races. You should learn to spot them and take advantage not come off like some old codger who got out of bed on the wrong side.
Matter of opinion but I believe it is you who needs to do a bit of learning. You are defending a ride on a horse that given anything like a reasonable ride – if you ride from that far back everything has to go perfectly – should have won comfortably. Should never have been in a position to have needed to have knocked seven bells out of it. Substitute incompetence for luck.
He was useless again on the same horse today. Riding the horse closer to the pace over a longer distance he allowed the front to get away and only got ‘busy’ when he couldn’t possibly win.
My gawd give me strength.
He did absolutely nothing wrong and had the horse in the perfect position just off the pace all the way round. Turning for home, he being a NH bred straight out of bumpers he was done for toe by 2 horses who won 6 or 7 races between them on the flat. He gained on them in the closing stages because his stamina began to kick in but was beaten fair and square by better horses on the day.
I suppose the fact he rode a double on the card is because they ran away with him
Stilvi tbh you post is so far off the mark it really isn’t worth responded to further. Give it a rest and talk about something you have a better understanding off.
like Purl one, Knit one, Purl one.
He can certainly be best described as a ‘squeezer’, can James.
Cracking ride on Karingreason today at Catterick, though. My only criticism of him being he probably has too much faith in the leaders coming back to him at times. You can’t fault his confidence though!
I hate to agree with Stilvi, but Reveley was absolutely appalling on the same horse at Carlisle today.
I hate to agree with Stilvi, but Reveley was absolutely appalling on the same horse at Carlisle today.
I know you guys have made several comments in the past that suggest he may not have been off given an easy race whatever but I backed the horse Rory and was never happy with the way he was travelling and I doubt if James was either. After that race I honestly think the horse has limited ability plus the stables had 1 win from 40 runners and you could hardly say they were running well.
Just how many times is he going to be accused of stopping this one before people realise he’s simply not that good?
The whole world is watching him and you should know better than most the minute there’s 10 pence for his type the price is gone and it’s all been a waste of time.
Yesterday was the perfect chance to clean up if the horse was good enough. I think those who think he’s a touch horse will have a very long wait.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but when people say he’s a poor rider it doesn’t say much for people like Chris Grant and Nick Williams as judges. He doesn’t get the chances most of the top jocks get but he’s still 11th in the Jockeys Championship and the way he kidded Zaynar into winning the other day was as good as it gets.
The problem is he’s one of the Martin Blackshaw/David Goulding/Paul Carberry brigade who can be so quiet on a horse you think there’s a lot more in the tank than there actually is and when the horse doesn’t produce he’s a bad rider a crook and all things that go with it.
You think he gave the horse a bad ride I think in this case you’re a bad judge but life goes on.
Well im of the opinion Mr Reveley is weak as maidens water in the saddle. Betting in running guys must love backing against him in a driving finish. Ive drank stronger shandys!!
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