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Good luck to PB & think he would be a good replacement for Timmy Murphy at Pond House should he hang his boots up. TM is 37 in August this year. & as is AP is in May.
As a guess he will ride a lot more for Tom George.
Don’t thing he will go in the direction of Jackdaws Castle to replace AP. Jonjo already has a team of excellent jockeys on his books.Given Brennan’s ride on Our Columbus at Chepstow today (for NTD as well), the recent revelation doesn’t seemed to have affected his performances.
Despite the news of the "split", the subsequent events suggest nothing has really changed other than Brennan is no longer "officially" NTD stable jockey. Looks like he’ll still be riding for the yard and with Sam and young Willie also around in the coming months, cant see anyone really coming out of the scenario badly. Brennan will be free for more outside rides, dont think there is another retainer lined up.
As for the Scu/Pond House scenario…someone mentioned young Scu heading north to Lucinda Russell – doubt Peter Buchanan and Campbell Gillies will be quaking in their boots. Both upwardly mobile riders in my book, riding for an upwardly mobile northern stable to boot!
Comes as no surprise to me,and i wish paddy brennan all the luck in his next job, ntd is a fool to think his kids can replace brennan, and if i had horses with him i would seriously think about moving them.
And so say all of us.
Given Brennan’s ride on Our Columbus at Chepstow today (for NTD as well), the recent revelation doesn’t seemed to have affected his performances.
Despite the news of the "split", the subsequent events suggest nothing has really changed other than Brennan is no longer "officially" NTD stable jockey. Looks like he’ll still be riding for the yard and with Sam and young Willie also around in the coming months, cant see anyone really coming out of the scenario badly. Brennan will be free for more outside rides, dont think there is another retainer lined up.
As for the Scu/Pond House scenario…someone mentioned young Scu heading north to Lucinda Russell – doubt Peter Buchanan and Campbell Gillies will be quaking in their boots. Both upwardly mobile riders in my book, riding for an upwardly mobile northern stable to boot!
I very much doubt that Tom would move to the Russell yard. I hear he prefers to make his own way in life, independently from his father
Brennan claims he never made the ‘blood thicker than water’ comment.
I think there is very little at the yard thats really coming up, Cockney Mackem maybe, and a few owners might be wary of the first jockeys jockeys being 18 and 16, and they could be in for a pretty tough season or 2.
Good luck to PB & think he would be a good replacement for Timmy Murphy at Pond House should he hang his boots up. TM is 37 in August this year. & as is AP is in May.
As a guess he will ride a lot more for Tom George.
Don’t thing he will go in the direction of Jackdaws Castle to replace AP. Jonjo already has a team of excellent jockeys on his books.Tom Scu is the retained jockey for David Pipe, Timmy Murphy is retained by David Johnson who has cut back dramatically on the number of horses he has in training and I think I read somewhere that he’ll be having 2 or 3 with Gordon Elliott for next season and fewer over here in the UK so if TM did retire I doubt he’d need a stable jockey.
The Paul Nolan line is interesting and might Gordon Elliott want a more formal arrangement with a top jockey rather than the one he currently has with Carberry, Maguire etc.?
Brennan claims he never made the ‘blood thicker than water’ comment.
I think there is very little at the yard thats really coming up, Cockney Mackem maybe, and a few owners might be wary of the first jockeys jockeys being 18 and 16, and they could be in for a pretty tough season or 2.
Also worth bearing in mind that NTD’s Head Lad Fergal O’Brien has left too to set up on his own as a rules trainer after a few good years with P2Pers – including for William and Angela Rucker who you’d expect would send him one or two under rules also. O’Brien did seem keen in the RP to point out that the departure of PB had nothing to do with his decision.
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