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Just put in a word for Adrian Maguire. Personally I thought he was the best around until A P took over and injuries caught up with him. Despite all the winners don’t think A P has quite been same ever since the first bad injury either. Have to agree with those who think Ruby Walsh is probably the best there is today.
on the flat my least favourite is graham gibbons who i just think is bad all round.
Is he any better p*ssed than sober?
From the Post website / PA Sport Staff;
“GRAHAM GIBBONS has been banned for 35 days after failing a breath test for alcohol.
The rider provided a sample which was found to contain alcohol in a concentration above the threshold level at Hamilton on September 23.
Gibbons’ case was considered by the disciplinary panel of the British Horseracing Authority on Thursday, with the jockey admitting to breaching the rules.
Taking into account that the lower of his two readings was 41 micrograms per 100 millilitres of breath,the panel imposed the lengthy suspension.
Gibbons will be out of action from November 16 to December 26 on days when flat racing is scheduled to take place.
The panel also ordered the chief medical adviser to carry out a continuous assessment of Gibbons’ well being and report any concerns immediately to the Licensing Committee”.
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
I backed Red Maurader in the National and was wishing someone else was riding him over the last 3 fences. Always reminded me of an accident waiting to happen.
Red Marauder can no more jump Grand National fences cleanly than a puffin can play the glockenspiel, but he had with him absolutely the right man to get him round the course on that incredible day of borderline unraceable conditions – one who had done all his home work on him for years as Norman Mason’s assistant-in-name-only, one who knew what jumping frailties the gelding possessed, and one who knew what mistakes not to repeat having put him on the floor at first Bechers the previous year.
In the most savage test of horse and jockey I can ever recall in my lifetime, I note that horseman Guest and horseman Murphy were the only two to coax their mounts home without mishap. Ergo some point or other I was making.
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I saw Red Maurader at Ascot absolutely murder a good field and that’s why I backed him in the National. On his day he was a class act and my granny could have ridden him. Joking of course, she’s dead and was too heavy anyway. I just never liked the guy but many would disagree as you do.
I think you are a little bit over the top with the most savage test. Most horses fall or are pulled up when they have no chance. It’s along way but not a tough course by any stetch of the imagination. If It was at Hexam nothing would finish.
You should have been at Cheltenham when Ten Up won the gold cup just before it was abandoned. I saw horses dead on their feet that day and that was only the 2 miles races.
Richard Guest has won the National so my opinion is what it is, only an opionion. If he was as bad as I said he probably would never have got a chance to ride in the national. There’s no real bad jockeys out there or theywouldn’t be riding.
I saw Red Maurader at Ascot absolutely murder a good field
Aye, I remember seeing that on Auntie Beeb. He did it very nicely that day.
I think you are a little bit over the top with the most savage test.
Attritional, then? I think I’ll live a long time to see so few finishers in a race of that nature again.
If It was at Hexham nothing would finish.
I can almost hear Charles Enderby rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect of not having to hand over the prizemoney…
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Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
My threepennorth would be:
Over the Jumps: Ruby on a staying chaser, McCoy on anything else
On the Flat: Spencer is quite simply a different class to any other flat jockey currently riding
I would defend Graeme Gibbons against the earlier criticism though. He’s a great judge of pace and I’d be more than happy to see him on a horse that likes to make the running
Liam Jones is an honest, hard-working young rider
Well mine are naturally over here
But it varies, they can all have bad days and bad weeks but for the best two rides on the card on Friday night we have these two chappies….Noel Callow – took a gap to win which no one else (and I mean no one) would have dared even think about. Caught for room at the 200m and everyone watching expected him to switch off and around heels and run third and he went through the proverbial needle eye opening and won running away. Never touched another runner jus,t got the horse to breathe in at the right moment.
(and on the appropriately named Worth The Wait)
Noel now has 102 winners for the season from 342 rides.Mark Gallagher on the short priced favourite who got squeezed up at the start so badly he lost an iron and all but fell off.
Horse was 2nd last when expected to lead in a 6F. He drove him though, positioned him 5 off the leaders on the outside and won by 2. Anyone else would have given up. Never ever takes credit for himself always insists it’s the horse that does the work. .
Hi all, interesting one this starting with the Jumpers, Choc Thornton deserves a big mention from me as does Noel Fehily and Denis O’ Regan.
Paul Carberry, Davy Russell and Ruby of course from acroos the pond also.
To be fair there are not many i dislike but no offence to Timmy Murphy i can’t have him i’m afraid.
Switching to the Flat as stated by many Ryan Moore has a huge future ahead of him but again there are not many i dislike although Richard hughes can be Frustrating,
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