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Any of our pointing brethren care to give an opinion on Christy Beamish’s jockey today? She’s ridden a few winners under Rules but I’m not familiar with her- would have preferred Josh Guerriro m’self….
She is a very talented rider and is from my mothers home town of Berkeley in gloucestershire (hunt with mustard jackets and covers some amazing countryside) She was/is based with Dick Bainbridge and her other half is the assistant to Andrew Balding. Think if my memory serves me right she has been champion lady point to point in country or south west..
the good news is that she was 2nd…….. well done girl
I rate Claire Allen as the best UK lady riding over fences at the moment. She is a great judge of pace and tactics; perhaps a slight weakness is strength in the finish but I’ve won an inordinate amount backing her against worse jockeys in points.
Trust Fund was rated 10lb higher than Christy and in my view that made the difference today; not anything Claire did or didn’t.
I rate Claire Allen as the best UK lady riding over fences at the moment. She is a great judge of pace and tactics; perhaps a slight weakness is strength in the finish but I’ve won an inordinate amount backing her against worse jockeys in points.
Trust Fund was rated 10lb higher than Christy and in my view that made the difference today; not anything Claire did or didn’t.
I rate her highly too Grey Dolphin. She has a big reputation in the sport and it is justified. I feel sure that given time and the right horses she could be the British Nina Carberry, she is that good and much better judges than me around the pointing scene rate her very highly.
Claire was ladies’ champion point-to-point rider in 2007 and had as good a season as she was entitled to last term, too, given that her main trainer Dick Baimbridge had a large number of his string removed to another trainer by the owner.
As well as Baimbridge, she tends to ride many of the horses in Sue Taylor’s yard. Some of you may remember her getting Mrs Taylor’s progressive Bravery Scotch home in front in a Stratford hunter chase the day before Cheltenham.
She may not appear as dynamic as some in the saddle, and I can quite see, having looked at the re-run a few times, how the effort up the elbow might have invited some comment. But I quite like her as a rider and I’d put her squarely in the "horses-run-for-her-without-recourse-to-a-pasting" category. Given that Christy Beamish decided to throw in one of his occasional messy leaps at the last, and that he might have prefered the ground an increment softer, I think she did very well to get him to run on again and get as close as the two of them did to Trust Fund.
Moreover, whilst not wanting to take too anything away from Josh Guerriero’s winning ride last season, do bear in mind that a fair degree of luck kept the partnership intact after a terrible blunder at Bechers. But for that recovery, this whole comparision could never have been invited in the first place.
Jeremy
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She was/is based with Dick Bainbridge and her other half is the assistant to Andrew Balding.
Chris Bonner, no less. Must be a bit of an age gap, but they make a good partnership, by all accounts. Having placed in two Grand Nationals previously, he has been an invaluable aid to her in advising on how to ride Aintree.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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