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I think Jacqueline Quest may be an even more complicated character than Frankel. Henry Cecil couldn’t even get her to eat properly and she joined Ian Williams last week..
Blimey. One of the more intriguing horses to be sent hurdling, if that way she goes
Good luck Ian Williams. If she continues to RR and not eat onto Evan Williams, with Richard Lee as a last resort
I think Jacqueline Quest may be an even more complicated character than Frankel. Henry Cecil couldn’t even get her to eat properly and she joined Ian Williams last week..
Blimey. One of the more intriguing horses to be sent hurdling, if that way she goes
Good luck Ian Williams. If she continues to RR and not eat onto Evan Williams, with Richard Lee as a last resort
I don’t believe there are any plans to send her hurdling!
Fingers crossed that Ian can rejuvenate her particularly as her owner is long overdue some good fortune.
JQ makes her debut for Ian tomorrow at Haydock. If anyone deserves a change of fortune it’s Noel Martin so hopefully she will put her best hoof forward.
A late contribution to the debate. I believe TPQ has been treated very harshly by critics (granted, I can find few who agree with me).
One factor at Ascot I haven’t seen mentioned is that at the time TPQ made his move, he was on the rails and the the horse in second was beginning to close him off. That, for me was instant decision time for TPQ. If he believed the remainder of the field were ignoring the pacemaker then there would have been some degree of risk that he’d become boxed in.
He pushed on through the gap while it was still there and, having set Frankel alight, cannot, I believe, be criticised for then failing to take a pull. The horse was accelerating, TPQ knew what he was sitting on, there was no reason imo to try and steady Frankel thus losing momentum and, possibly, getting into a battle with the horse.
I’ve heard some respected folk say Frankel was out on his feet at the end. I don’t believe he was (I posted on twitter just after he passed the post that I thought he might have idled).
I’ve heard it argued elsewhere that ‘Queally would never have got away with it on another horse’ – the whole point is, he wasn’t on any other horse, which was almost certainly why he rode the race he did.
I think he’s a much better jockey than he gets credit for – his quiet manner and lack of ‘charisma’ simply make him ‘unfashionable’.
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One factor at Ascot I haven’t seen mentioned is that at the time TPQ made his move, he was on the rails and the the horse in second was beginning to close him off. That, for me was instant decision time for TPQ. If he believed the remainder of the field were ignoring the pacemaker then there would have been some degree of risk that he’d become boxed in.
A good point, well made. I also agree with your summary of TQ’s quiet virtues. As with Ted Durkan before him, these seem to be the qualities Henry Cecil needs to find in his stable jockey nowadays.
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