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That’s a Gregory Peck, or Neck for those non-Cockney Rhyming Slang fans.
He wasn’t happy with Davy Russell’s ride on Lord Windermere in the Gold Cup apparently and has decided he doesn’t want the jockey on board him again.
Jim Culloty reckons he needs a change at the steering wheel but I reckon a good look in the mirror is required for a stable that hasn’t had a winner in over a year, with all 66 runners losing in that spell.
Jim Culloty has had 36 winners as a trainer, Davy Russell has had over a 1000 winners as a jockey. We’ll let Davy do the maths and let Jim do the pizza in this scenario I think.
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Strange outcome isn’t it. Especially the comment that he won’t be ‘Riding his horses in the future’. Quite a damning statement and sentiment from the trainer. I can’t recall any doubts raised about DR after the Gold Cup? Did I miss something?
Couldn’t agree more. I always thought that the horse’s Gold Cup victory was down to the ride Russell gave him. If they seriously think he can repeat that feat (frankly unlikely regardless of who is on board), perhaps a change of stable is the answer….
I heard on a podcast that DR was not happy with the instructions he got in the Hennesy and apparently said he would ride the horse as he saw fit in the Gold Cup. Clearly he did.
Clearly a differnece of opinion and Culloty is the trainer and it will be interesting to see if DR continues to ride for Dr Lambe more so than Culloty.
Personally I don’t like DR I think he is a poor jockey just my opinion though.I think I saw Jim Culloty running a trip wire across the track at Gowran Park last night.
No doubt the “Get Well Slowly” card will be in the post shortly.
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Some in racing are as deluded as many in showbiz. I think Russell is very talented, but the supposedly superb ride he gave LW last year is about equal to the myth that TNO was ‘stopped in his tracks’ in the Champion Hurdle. It was a lucky success for jockey and trainer.
The biggest surprise with LW this year was that he went off so short in the betting. For Culloty to believe that ride made a difference (exactly the same ride as the 2014 one as far as I could see), well, I refer him to John Inverdale about the quality, and tint of the specs he watches racing through.
And commiserations to Russell on his fractured ulna. ‘I expect to be back for Punchestown next month?’ What are these guys made of?
Some in racing are as deluded as many in showbiz. I think Russell is very talented, but the supposedly superb ride he gave LW last year is about equal to the myth that TNO was ‘stopped in his tracks’ in the Champion Hurdle. It was a lucky success for jockey and trainer.
The biggest surprise with LW this year was that he went off so short in the betting. For Culloty to believe that ride made a difference (exactly the same ride as the 2014 one as far as I could see), well, I refer him to John Inverdale about the quality, and tint of the specs he watches racing through.
And commiserations to Russell on his fractured ulna. ‘I expect to be back for Punchestown next month?’ What are these guys made of?
I can’t think of many jockey’s who have ridden more than 1000 winners who I could class as “poor”
Davy Russell has won more than 11 million Euros of prize money for the owners over in Ireland, not bad for someone who isn’t a lot of cop at the game.
Lord Windermere has been dropped to a rating of 158 after his pitiful Gold Cup run and that tells the true story, ie he’s just not a great horse.
He was a place lay at the meeting for me and his career is at a crossroads now. A new jockey is going to do little to change that unless:-
a) The jockey is Paul Daniels (Now that’s Magic)
b) They dig up Jimmy Saville for one more series of Jim’ll Fix It and Culloty writes in:- “Dear Jim, Can you fix it for me so that Lord Windermere wins next year’s Gold Cup? Yours in hope, the other Jim”
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I heard on a podcast that DR was not happy with the instructions he got in the Hennessy
We’ll, if the instructions were to “Go out there and win on this cuddy”, I don’t think I’d have been very happy myself.
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Dermot Weld has stated that Davy Russell will ride Windsor Park if he recovers in time for the Punchestown Festival, assuming the horse actually runs.
Windsor Park is in the same ownership as Lord Windermere and based on Dermot’s statement you would assume Davy Russell’s beef is with Jim Culloty, rather than the owner.
Hopefully the jockey will return in time for the meeting. I suppose he’ll just have to get used to the sleepless nights fretting about all those Culloty trained winners he’ll be missing out on.
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I heard after Windsor Park had won the Neptune – the owner had won with his last 5 runners at the Festival. Jim Cullotty also had both his two runners – Spring Heeled and Lord Windermere – win last year and latter winning the RSA in 2013 too. So despite Jim’s poor year on year record – connections probably had unrealistic expectations of everything changing (again) at the Festival. Wanting someone to blame.
Value Is EverythingCan I put forward another possible perspective?
It isn’t Davy’s talent as a jockey that is in question with Jim Culloty it is that he won’t ever do as he is bloody told.
It is also true that by disobeying orders he won a Gold Cup and he should get all the credit for that but it is easy to paper over the cracks when things are going well but the signs that JC has been unhappy with Russell have been there for over a year.
Here is a quote from Jim Culloty….”Davy was getting the sack at halfway…” this is not from this year’s Gold Cup but following the 2014 victorious effort. What this revealed from a jubilant Culloty is that Russell did not ride to orders when Lord Windermere won the Gold Cup.
It has also been pretty clear that early this season Davy was holding up LW more than connections wanted, to the point he was told definitively to ride him more prominently in the Irish Hennessy. What then transpired (to my eye at least) was that having carried out the orders perfectly to the third last, where the horse travelled beautifully, Russell then inexplicably drove him into a premature long lead and he was unsurprisingly picked off in a race he could have won if ridden on a more orthodox manner. At the time I thought it looked like sheer bloody mindedness.
When a trainer is having such a bad time as Jim Culloty is, he even more keenly than usual needs to feel that he is in control and all members of his team do as they are told. It would have been impossible for Culloty to replace Davy before this years Gold Cup (given last year’s result) but I am pretty sure he would have if he could.
Early this year JC hinted that Lord Windermere was now fully mature and he was training him in a slightly different way. Perhaps different tactics were required in the trainer’s view.
Davy Russell can deliver rides of genius but in my view what he did not do was ride as he was told as he thought he knew better and given the current priorities and sensibilities of the trainer, the break up was inevitable.It has also been pretty clear that early this season Davy was holding up LW more than connections wanted, to the point he was told definitively to ride him more prominently in the Irish Hennessy. What then transpired (to my eye at least) was that having carried out the orders perfectly to the third last, where the horse travelled beautifully, Russell then inexplicably drove him into a premature long lead and he was unsurprisingly picked off in a race he could have won if ridden on a more orthodox manner. At the time I thought it looked like sheer bloody mindedness.
Change of tactics did not work.
The horse went clear but not good enough to stay there.
Absolutely no evidence Lord Windermere “could have won if ridden on a more orthodox manner”.
Has Cullotty said he was against the way he was ridden there?
Or was that the way he wanted Lord Windermere to be ridden?Value Is Everything
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