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Can somebody put there finger on why this jockey is so bad at the minute he is poor literally theirs nothing there its like his got a lot more on his head than meets the eye . people will say its because he lost his big job no he lost his big job because he was riding poor Crying Shame Really he was brilliant
Really hard to know.
About a year into the Hamdan job, I thought he’d improved as a rider and was set for the Richard Hills-style ‘job for life’…then the sky fell in.
Timeform recently suggested he is only the fourth-best of Richard Fahey’s regular riders this season by their pacing and efficiency stats (behind McNamara, Hamilton and McHugh).
I try not to slag jockeys off because a lot of the time it is my pocket talking and after I have calmed down and watched the replay and analysed it I am more often than not wrong and I give the jockey the benefit of the doubt…
However I am going to rant about this fella!!
His standard of riding has deteriorated rapidly in the last couple of years IMO and I try to avoid betting him but sometimes you can’t.
I backed him on Here and Now in the Melrose at York and had a nice each way punt at 20/1 and 25/1 and to be honest it should have won, He got beat two necks when IMO he should have won a length he took forever to try and straighten the horse out when it hung and seemed to have no strenght in a finish and even Mrsraymo said who was on that was it an apprentice? Out of the mouths of innocents eh?
I am sorry to say a man to avoid nowadays. (even though Mrsraymo backed Stamp Hill with him up!!) LOLI feel sorry for the fellow.
I think it comes down to a confidence thing.
I think raceriding mirrors life in that if your luck is out and you really need a break , then you seldom get one.
That said, I don’t think that he is riding that well currently, and he certainly doesn’t appear that strong in a finish. I hope he bounces back.
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