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Another winner at Nad Al Sheba, this time aboard Mutamarres.
Have watched a fair few races from Nad Al Sheba whilst it has been on ATR recently, and Richard Hills has been riding really well, the amount of races he has stole from the front is brilliant.
People are quick to criticise jockeys when they get it wrong, so i think it is good to give credit where it is deserved. He is riding really well at the moment.
He is, yes.
But i think in recent races the horse he was on went off favourite was when he rode Mutamarres the time before today, when it went off 7/2 favourite.
The rest have been 7/1, 8/1 chances, etc…
I just heard an ex NH jockey (now presenter) say that any of the top thirty jockeys could have ridden the winner of any particular race, as it was all about the horse and not the jockey. He maintained that it is trainers who make the difference, not the jockeys.
Richard Hills is a decent enough jockey, and I suppose so was Luke Harvey – in his own way.
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Having written ‘Mutamarres followed up his course win from earlier in the month and again benefitted from an excellent front-running ride by Richard Hills; he’s clearly better than ever but has been well drawn in stall 1 on both occasions and is likely to find such tactics harder to pull off in the future’
last time, all I can say is
They only appear like steering jobs because he makes it look so effortless. How exactly was an exposed handicapper a steering job in a 60k listed race against at least five higher rated rivals?
I think he is at his best fron the front particularily on the rowley course in Newmarket , and of course Glen is right the man is simply a Deity
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Ricky
Funny that, I wrote my comment without having looked at race, I’ve just watched it now and yep front running steering job just about sums it up nicely, I’d probably add "uncontested lead" to that as well. If that ride makes him a "God" then we’ll just have to agree to differ I suppose.
By the way 60K for a listed race in Dubai is no big deal, only 2 runners had less than 10 runs and Hills horse was 3rd highest rated on official ratings.
Arguing about who the best jockey is…well everyone has their own opinion, so lets just leave it there.
I believe Glenn has his, certainly used to, own website, which has the title : "R.Hills is God"
So there is not much point in trying to convince him that the Hills boy is a numpty.
Colin
I caught Hill’s ride on Mutamarres today and I must say I was impressed. That is the first time I’ve seen him ride for a while and he looked excellent. He controlled the race the whole way and had the strength to see it out at the end.
I agree the horse plays an enormous part but I think a jockey can make or break a horse with just a few strides of bad riding or poor judgement.If he was a God, he surely wouldn’t have given himself the same face as the child-catcher from Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.
I thought Richard Hills rode well again last night and I cannot understand why so many punters don’t rate him. Yes he rides good horses but he often wins at really decent prices on horses you would not expect.
For me the riding performance of the night was shown by Ryan Moore – again. Not just for his win on Hard Top in the Maserati Stakes but for his unbelievable finishing position on the Lars Kelp trained Calrissian in the Al Quoz Sprint.
Admittedly dropped back in trip – he started off in Dubai running over a mile – Calrissian had between 2 and 17 pounds to find in this Listed contest off level weights. He was nosed out by Instant Recall in the last stride but amazing that Ryan had nursed him to finish so close when his starting price would have suggested he’d have been the first beaten.
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