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Just watched Jamie on Wigmore Hall at Doncaster.Paul Hanagan took him to the races on Myplacelater. Jamie stopped riding for a stride and paid the consequences.Difference between a guy riding for the title and not.
Just watched Jamie on Wigmore Hall at Doncaster.Paul Hanagan took him to the races on Myplacelater. Jamie stopped riding for a stride and paid the consequences.Difference between a guy riding for the title and not.
I’m not sure he did, he deffo thought he’d won it though, 50 yards from home.
Will improve nicely for a larger field – had the race won alright. Lost my cash this time in unfortunate circumstances, will get it back on this one i think, looks a possible David Junior type.
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Suggest this new jockey-dissing thread should be renamed
Andyod screws up
. If you look carefully you’ll see why Spencer had to stop riding – and this explanation was sensibly accepted by the stewards. Once more round the island …
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Contrariwise, why not try celebrating his great horsemanship on Prohibit to win the big race of the day? You might feel better about life as a result, as Socrates would have said had he been with us.
Oldjoesaid missed the kick and was settled at the back. He was then moved out to get a clear run. Its a 5f race – you cant blame Spencer for that.
Look Andyod, is entitled to his opinion and he obviously felt strongly enough about the ride to start a thread on it, so why shoot the fella down
The thread is on Wigmore Hall not any other Spencer ridden horse today, I said myself that I felt he’d ‘Jamie’ done everything he could but don’t just jump on the fella ‘Andyod’s’ back because he feels differently.
Contrariwise, why not try celebrating his great horsemanship on Prohibit to win the big race of the day? You might feel better about life as a result, as Socrates would have said had he been with us.
I probably won’t read it but if it makes you feel any better I am sure you are at liberty to start a thread celebrating Spencer’s ride.
ATR has a regular ‘ride of the week’ series. You will proabably be glad to know they don’t have a ‘worst ride of the week’.
It was pretty poor that their on course team (Broonie & The Croc?) managed to completely overlook – whether deliberately or otherwise – the biggest ‘eyecatcher’ of the day in the last race.
In my opinion jockeys ‘lose’ far more races than they ‘win’ so you are bound to get more critical threads particularly if as I have said before the media choose to shy away from upsetting anyone.
I didn’t know you had to feel bad to critique a ride Pinza.Just shows how little I know.Thanks nevertheless for the cheap(free in fact) psychiatric advise.Next time I will do a double take to avoid speaking out of a heavy heart.He still blew it as Hughesie did in France.You know I do feel better after stating my opinion.How about that? By the way being professionals I am sure both jockeys will return the riding fee having failed to deliver a professional product.
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I didn’t know you had to feel bad to critique a ride Pinza
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You know I do feel better after stating my opinion.How about that?
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By the way being professionals I am sure both jockeys will return the riding fee having failed to deliver a professional product.
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PS How many winners did Socrates ride before he threw in the spunge so to speak?
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You evidently do feel sufficiently bad if you bother to
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let off steam and relieve those feelings by posting about it.
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You might follow my first and most important bit of free advice, and watch the last 100 yards from the head on view, which will show you exactly what happened and why, as the Stewards on this occasion accepted. Perhaps you’d like to repay Mr Spencer’s fee for him, and send him a polite little note of apology.
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They didn’t major on horse racing in Ancient Athens, as the going tended to be stony. And, like many people who’ve told people uncomfortable truths they didn’t want to hear, he was forced to commit suicide by his adoring public.
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I probably won’t read it but if it makes you feel any better I am sure you are at liberty to start a thread celebrating Spencer’s ride.
I wouldn’t read it either.
Entre nous
, if there’s one jockey against whom I’m prejudiced, it’s Jockey Spencer. I can’t forgive him for ruining the career of Soviet Song’s promising full sister Sister Act in a Nottingham maiden, or for lying so far out of his ground on Soviet Song herself in her third Falmouth.
However, I firmly believe in not giving my prejudices an airing; and when yet another of these eternal jockey-bashing threads springs up like bindweed, based on a ride which was perfectly defensible to anyone who cares to look at it impartially, then I have to say something in his defence, painful though that is.
Thus, I’m with Voltaire on this one: I might dislike the chap, but I will defend him to the hilt when he’s a victim of scurrilous nonsense. I did not see the last race, so make no comment on that. The thread wasn’t about it, and to bring it in was underhand and ungenerous, in my opinion.
That race sums up each jockey in a nutshell. Never liked Spencer, done more money on him than most, same with Richard Hills.
I never said he(Jamie), or Hughsie were bad jockeys. I said he screwed up and lost a race he should have won.All the rest are excuses for failure.I am sure Socrates ,Aristorle, Plato etc etc etc would never condone excusing failure.Neither do I.Fear of interfering with Frankie when he had him beaten is a laughable excuse for not winning.Whether we like it or not he stopped riding and lost the race.You are only supposed to lose a race in the stewards room.
It also seems that for every thread created that contained so much as a hint of moan, there are people more than willing to use nasty, unfounded and uncalled for gobbledygook psycho analysis on fellow forum users in order to get their point accross, which just brings thing down to a personal level. This needs to stop.
Couldn’t agree more.I rarely post on here now but what seems like a long time ago now, I used to enjoy this Forum.
Most of these discussions are like a tennis match with a very long (and boring) rally, one says tomato the other tomatoe, you know the closing line of that song – ‘Let’s call the whole thing off’
We are all entitled to our opinion & agree/disagree with fellow Members but this sniping is detrimental to the Forum imo.Wigmore Hall isn’t the easiest to ride, as he has one burst and needs to come as late as possible.
I dug this out from the Arlington Million thread, Pinz…
Apart from dropping his hands for the reason stated and accepted by the Doncaster stewards, I’m surprised you haven’t reasoned that Jamie may have got there too soon, having hit the front with just over a furlong to go?
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