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I couldn’t begin to describe how highly I regard Ruby Walsh.
For me Ruby is the ultimate horseman who conducts himself in an excellent manner.
Our Ruby gives the impression he doesn’t suffer fools glady but as Ian said that does not make him Jack the Ripper.
Greed! can’t be having that. He’s very very competitive and so he should be. All top sportsmen are and if they weren’t they wouldn’t be top sportsmen for long.
He was visibly upset after last years Gold Cup and was determined to prove Kauto Star was the best horse in the world yet you would have thought he was out having a morning stroll. Not one sign of panic on the day he was coolness personified.
I’m a million miles away from most of my old racing pals but still have the occasional chat with some of the lads and I have never known anyone to have anything but praise for the man.
The racing world is a very small place and if your unliked then everyone knows you are. That is not Ruby Walsh.
Ruby Walsh is one of the most poular jockeys ever to grace the turf. The cheers Ruby Ruby Ruby rang out at Cheltenham like Man United had just won the Champions League and Christy Moore had just ended singing the Ballad of Ruby Walsh all at the same moment.
People have the right to dislike anyone they choose but Our Ruby? As Colm Meaney said in the Commitments "That’s blasphemy that is!"
Agree with every word Fist, spot on.
American Trilogy was not a "good thing", why would connections want some other jockey on board anyway? Surely they want the best available jockey, so there is minimal chance of jockey error. If it did come down to jockeyship (which can not be known before the race) they’d have the advantage. Why Ruby should decline the ride beats me, and why should him taking the ride, any ride, be greed? It is only natural to want the best rides.
He does sometimes seem to have the look of "not that question again", in his inteviews. But how anyone can take a dislike to him is strange.
Unless the original poster has the British mentality of just not liking successful people.
Mark
Value Is EverythingI backed numbersixvalverde and would have had the right hump had he let his dads horse win.
As far as i know Ruby(the best jockey by a mile )gets to choose whichever horse he feels has the best chance of winning the race and then the tricky bit is winning the race without the horse falling or worse ending in hospital and correct me if i’m wrong but he delivered on both counts to perfection what is your problem with that !!"ps I see that there is another sea pidgeon [seepigeon]on the forum so Im going to reinvent myself as "rustneversleeps"if thats ok with the moderators"
Cheers Pidgeon!
So there are at least 2 people on here that Aristo doesn’t trust!!!
One of the most remarkable things in world sport at the moment must be the fact that jump racings two best jockeys, and in theory biggest rivals, are best friends. In how may other sports, particularly individual sports, does this occur. Just look at the frostiness between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickleson. It says so much about the character of both Ruby and AP that they will chase every winner competitively but the rivalry ends when the race is over. There was a good interview in the Sunday Tribube (Irish paper) which highlights the friendship.
http://www.tribune.ie/article/2009/mar/22/easy-rider/?q=Ruby%20Walsh
It is things like this friendship which makes horse racing the sport it is and Ruby and AP two of the worlds greatest sports people. I struggle to believe that someone who follows horse racing could have anything but the highest regard for Ruby.
In my opinion, he is probably the best judge of a horse as a jockey. One just has to look at the credit Paul Nicholls sent his way, in post race interviews, when Chapoturgeon won at Cheltenham. Nicholls said that it was Ruby who told him to prepare hm for that race, even though it was always likely to be Timmy Murphy’s ride.. That was why Nichools wanted Ruby to ride Denman on his comeback, to get an accurate picture to the horses well being. He is the consumate horseman.
To further show his ability at judging a horses prospects, he had the choice of 7 runners in the National. Of those, 6 were among the 17 finishers and 5 were in the first 11. The horse he chose as having the best prospect finished in 3rd place. A lucky fluke?? Absolutely not. His recent record in Nationals is 3/13/9/2/1. How many other jockeys have completed the course 5 years running.
With regards to his personality, yes he is surly in his post race interviews. I reckon this has more to do with his boredom and frustration at the typically inane questions of Rishi or Thommo. Can anyone blame him for that??? He has been on a number of chatshows and radio programs in Ireland in the aftermath of his Cheltenham performances and has shown himself to have a very balanced unassuming personality. He is a credit to horse racing and should be cherished as such while he is in his prime.
I don’t know if this link will work outside Ireland but I think Ruby comes across very well in this interview. That Tubridy lad is some tool though.
http://www.rte.ie/tv/tubridytonight/av_20090314.html?2507667,null,228
Circumspect,
Good first post and welcome to the forum. Furthermore, an excellent article of a depth that some english journalists should take note of.
Good posting Imperial Call. That’s working in the UK. For further insight into his, and his families, character, watch this interview with his father:
http://www.rte.ie/tv/latelate/av_20090306.html?2502829,null,228
Also, to show his and his colleagues respect for each other, you just have to read the interview of Ruby by the excellent journalist, Donald McRae, in which Ruby deflects all the post Cheltenahm attention on him to the unfortuante Matt O’Connor..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/mar/31/horse-racing-ruby-walsh-grand-national-my-will
I dont get the ref. to numbersixvalverde, was ruby supposed to stop the horse cos it was going to beat his dads, or is there a suggestion that ruby never rides in any races his family or friends have an interest in ?
absolutely ridiculousAlmost all of u guys/girls are missing the point, I’m not saying that the jockey with the girls name is not a competent race rider or that he should not have ambition but only that the lesser lights in the yards should be given a fair crack of the whip
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Greed is the excess or rapacious desire and pursuit of money ,wealth,power,food.It is generally considered a vice and is one of the seven deadly sins…….
I couldn’t begin to describe how highly I regard Ruby Walsh.
For me Ruby is the ultimate horseman who conducts himself in an excellent manner.
Our Ruby gives the impression he doesn’t suffer fools glady but as Ian said that does not make him Jack the Ripper.
Greed! can’t be having that. He’s very very competitive and so he should be. All top sportsmen are and if they weren’t they wouldn’t be top sportsmen for long.
He was visibly upset after last years Gold Cup and was determined to prove Kauto Star was the best horse in the world yet you would have thought he was out having a morning stroll. Not one sign of panic on the day he was coolness personified.
I’m a million miles away from most of my old racing pals but still have the occasional chat with some of the lads and I have never known anyone to have anything but praise for the man.
The racing world is a very small place and if your unliked then everyone knows you are. That is not Ruby Walsh.
Ruby Walsh is one of the most poular jockeys ever to grace the turf. The cheers Ruby Ruby Ruby rang out at Cheltenham like Man United had just won the Champions League and Christy Moore had just ended singing the Ballad of Ruby Walsh all at the same moment.
People have the right to dislike anyone they choose but Our Ruby? As Colm Meaney said in the Commitments "That’s blasphemy that is!"
I dont like Man.U either
Never trust a man with a pony tail or someone who can’t spell Sea Pigeon
I think you’ll find if u care to google that Sea Pidgeon was equally spelled with of without the "d".
I think you’ll find if u care to google that Sea Pidgeon was equally spelled with of without the "d".
Roffle.
I’m not saying that the jockey with the girls name is not a competent race rider or that he should not have ambition but only that the lesser lights in the yards should be given a fair crack of the whip
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PFN, 12/3/09: "Right, about your horse American Trilogy in one of the most prestigious and competitive handicap hurdles of the season. I’m putting the blinkers on him again and we have to hope they don’t light him up as much as they did last time, so the jockey will have to try and get him settled. It will probably be a fast-run race so we need a good judge of pace on top. Obviously I thought about putting Ruby up but he’s been winning far too much lately so I thought I’d give Ian Popham the leg-up. He hasn’t got much experience but we played eeny-meeny-miney-mo in the yard last night and it’s his turn."
Can’t see it myself.
Greed is the excess or rapacious desire and pursuit of money ,wealth,power,food.It is generally considered a vice and is one of the seven deadly sins…….
Given that Ruby could fall tomorrow and never be able to ride again, and even barring career-ending injury probably has another ten years tops in the saddle, I don’t think there’s anything ‘sinful’ in him reaping the rewards of his indisputable efforts to provide financial security for himself, his wife, and any future family they may have. He’s hardly on Premiership footballer wages and he won’t be getting an index-linked final-salary pension either.
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