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I am assuming there was a jockey change on the first? Could it just be he was on the best horse in both races? I don’t know much about him but I suspect if you play the last to first card too often you are asking for trouble. It looks very good when it works, disastrous when it doesn’t.
Very good jockey but IMO Fabre and Lellouche have snapped up the best young jockeys in France
Sorry – make that ONE well judged effort today!
He was on Simon De Montfort and Guyon was on the other one. (Thanks Zenjah)
Still, a good effort all the same.
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2 winners today, the guy is simply a future star!
Maxime Guyon made quite a name for himself in Hong Kong over the winter.
Regular rider of Byword and the hot-headed Lope De Vega. Andre Fabre holds a very high opinion of Maxime, once saying that he has the potential to be the best jockey he’s ever seen.I wonder how come France produces such great jockeys.I won’t begin to spell their names.You know who they are.I suppose Ireland is next,if you count Fallon,Queally,Spencer,Ahern,and of course the redoubtable Cathy Gannon! Englans next with Moore and Buick, although Moore is as good as there is,and better than any when he wakes up.Buick seems in a bit of a slump right now.I see there is a young apprentice, Egan, riding in Ireland. Would he be related to you know who?Also a young O’Brien girl,I wonder to whom is she related ?
I keep hearing it, during various discussions relating to the ongoing Frankie saga(s).
Informed pundits suggesting that Frankie is currently a superior jockey to Mikael Barzalona. Jim McGrath was another example this morning on The Morning Line.
Great jockey that Frankie is, I think Barzalona is exceptional, and I don’t really see any evidence to suggest that Frankie is currently better than the young Frenchman.
There isn’t any, is there?
I’d ask you David, where there is any evidence Barca being a better jockey than Dettori?
Value Is EverythingI didn’t say there was GT – I just think this oft-repeated assertion/inference that somehow Frankie has been ousted by an inferior jockey wants challenging.
I like Frankie as a jockey, clearly very top of the tree, but Barzalona is exceptional too.
Of course they would say Frankie Dettori; he’s their pal.
I’d give Barzalona the nod.
Frankie is not the force he was. Yes, he has the experience but that confidence, which coincidentally, Barazalona now has in spades, has waned.
Frankie, to me, seems a shadow of the jockey he once was.
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It is currently unlikely Frankie would not lose a stakes race as Barzalona did last week by going too early. The latter may have promise but he is not there yet.
for me this is an easy one frankie at the moment still is a better jockey than barzalona maybe in time barzalona will turn out as good as frankie but i think he has a long way to go
I believe that Dettori is coming to a natural end to his career.
Barzalona is , in my view, going to be a really good jockey and is a natural successor.
I still cannot believe though how many posters on this forum view Dettori through rose tinted spectacles.
He is in the TRF hall of fame above Pat Eddery for goodness sake !
Anyone want to try and justify that (please don’t just use the "he’s been good for racing" line).
Eddery was a truly great jockey who beats Dettori’s achievements into a cocked hat.How quickly we dump the old to make way for the new.A poet once said
be not the first by whom the new is tried
nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
We seem to be the first to cast the old aside.It takes a life time to learn the wisdom of the ages.Frankie has paid his dues. He is still tops in my book.Plus I have a soft spot for the underdog being mauled by the top dog.It is currently unlikely Frankie would not lose a stakes race as Barzalona did last week by going too early. The latter may have promise but he is not there yet.
It seemed that he was not aware of Sajjhaa’s abilities regarding pace, speed and stamina, amply demonstrated in her previous races. Why use her superior speed so early, leading at least to a harder race than need be against that opposition, and ultimately to defeat. He was not very clever either on Inthar just a few days before at Kempton.
It is right to forgive a jockey who takes a calculated risk to win a race – going the shortest route on the rail but failing to find a gap, or being unable to find a way through on a hold-up horse, etc. But good though Barzelona is, he sometimes seems to make mistakes related to the pace of a race and how that will affect the particular horse he is riding. Perhaps Godolphin should send him to the USA for a while to complete his education.
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